No posts found. Try a different search?

Residents and staff at a long-term care nursing home really got into this year’s Summer Olympics.

Residents and staff at a long-term care nursing home really got into this year’s Summer Olympics.Watching the Olympics in Beijing on television was not the only involvement at the home operated by the Burlington County freeholders. They participated in their own Buttonwood Olympics with games that ranged from horseshoes and water gun shooting outdoors to board games, cone-stacking, and timed... 

Best tool for nurse to retrieve fast and accurate information is PDA

PDA’s have become a nurse’s best tool to retrieve fast and accurate information. From nursing students to Nurse Practitioner’s PDA’s have proven to be a very useful gadget to have in their pockets. Not only are they small and compact, making them easy to carry around in coats, but they also are able to carry tons of useful information ranging from medical dictionaries, to nursing textbooks... 

AMSN Endorses Proclamation For Change In Hospital-Patient Care Environment

AMSN has endorsed the Proclamation for Change initiated by a time and motion study, which identifies ways to improve the nurse work environment, conducted by leaders at Ascension Health and Kaiser Permanente. The proclamation includes principles to guide decisions about hospital design and technology and is available on AMSN’s Web site. The study identifies specific areas of inefficiency in the... 

Dolbey Sponsors The Coding Game at AHIMA Convention and Exhibit in Seattle

Dolbey will be promoting the unique, medical coding website known as The Coding Game™ at the 2008 American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) Convention and Exhibit in Seattle, WA. The Coding Game is the product of the healthcare researchers and software developers at Artificial Medical Intelligence, Inc. and provides an Internet game experience for medical coders to collaborate in... 

Members of the Royal College of Nursing

Members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) – the world’s largest trade union for nurses – has re-elected a gay man to one of its most influential posts. Jason Warriner, a Matron for Sexual Health and HIV at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust will now serve as Chair of the RCN’s Annual Congress for a further two years. The RCN Congress is an important fixture... 

Gender Awareness Lacking In Back To Work Policies

UK programmes designed to help the unemployed get back to work and support young parents are losing impact because they are not designed with the participants’ gender in mind. Men as well as women can lose out as a result of ‘gender blind’ policies. This finding, based on two case studies in the North East of England, appears in Critical Social Policy this week, published by SAGE. The... 

The travel nursing video

Joint Commission certified traveling nurse company, American Traveler, announced today a new video that brings the benefits and lifestyle of travel nursing to desktops around the globe in a dynamic multimedia presentation highlighting the travel nursing experiences of working RNs and shows newcomers how to become a travel nurse. “When I first decided to find out how to become a travel nurse,...