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...
Six Nursing Lessons on Death and Opioid-Induced Respiratory Compromise
Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety (PPAHS) released six lessons on death and opioid-induced respiratory compromise in honor of the death anniversary of 17-year...
What Makes A Good Patient?
Patients and health care providers share a very personal relationship. Doctors need to know a lot about their patients, their family, and lifestyle to...
I Can’t Get No, Patient Satisfaction!
The United States healthcare industry has experienced more changes in the last three years than it has since the advent of Medicaid and Medicare...
New Pediatric Quality Survey Captures Inpatient Care Experience
Surveying hospital inpatients and their families about their hospital experience is an increasingly important measure of care quality. However, researchers have lacked a standardized...
What Most Chronic Pain Patients Don’t Tell You
More than half of chronic pain patients in a managed care setting reported using chiropractic care or acupuncture or both, but many of these...
New Risk-Based Methodology For Reporting Diagnostic Lab Results
A major study of electronic medical records by researchers at Florence A. Rothman Institute (FARI) introduced a new model for reporting laboratory test results,...