Patient Care
What Do You Think? –A Nurse Is Prosecuted For A Fatal Medical Mistake
No doubt you've seen the headlines about a former nurse at Vanderbilt University Medical Center that was arrested and charged with reckless homicide and abuse in February for making a medical...
Best Practices
Nurse Scheduling Nightmares
How two clever nurse managers found low cost options to streamline scheduling.
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Latest Studies
Even The Best Healthcare Facilities Can Do More To Prevent Infections
Healthcare-associated infections can be reduced by up to 55 percent by systematically implementing evidence-based infection prevention and control...
Latest Studies
Words Matter
A new John Hopkins study found stigmatizing language in medical records may affect the care a patient receives.
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Latest Studies
Nurse Staffing Levels Linked To Patient Satisfaction
Patients' unfavourable views of hospital care are strongly linked to insufficient numbers of nurses on duty, rather than...
Nurse Eye Roll: Nurses – Protect Your Back!
After you land your first nursey job, you’ll sit through a long orientation. You’ll have just come back from lunch in a food coma,...
Million Hearts Launches Annual Blood Pressure Control Challenge
Does your hospital, clinic or private practice achieve sustained hypertension control rates of 70 percent or above? The U.S. Department of Health and Human...
Report Reveals Parents Less Resistant to Vaccines
The Medscape Vaccine Acceptance Report showed that 42% of clinicians surveyed find moms and dads more accepting of childhood immunizations since the recent measles...
Underestimating Childhood Stress
There are many pressing health topics affecting parents, children and physicians during the critical back-to school season. One often overlooked area is the stress that...
Checking the Symptom Checkers
More than a third of adults nationwide regularly use the Internet to help diagnose their ailments. They often start with online search engines, which...
A Nation In Pain
Most American adults have experienced some level of pain, from brief to more lasting pain, and from relatively minor to more severe pain, according...