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Healing the nursing shortage with staff-friendly design
The United States is facing the worst nursing shortage in history. Not enough young nurses are entering the workforce, while baby boomers are aging and requiring more and more medical care. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, a registered nurse’s average age is 46.8 years. This aging population is dealing with increasingly long hours and growing patient-to-nurse
Advocate Lutheran General Hospital Showcase Slideshow
Project category: Addition (completed July 2009)
Chief administrator: Julie Schaffner, Chief Operating Offi cer & Chief Nurse Executive, (847) 723-2210
Firm: Cannon Design, (312) 332-9600
Design team: Gregory A. Heiser, AIA, EDAC, Project Director/Principal; Randolph Guillot, AIA, LEED AP, Design Principal; Jocelyn Stroupe, IIDA, AAHID, EDAC, Interior Design Principal; Geoffrey
Intel-GE Care Innovations™ Guide to Provide Virtual Care Coordination on Hundreds of Windows 7 Devices
The Intel-GE Care Innovations™ Guide, providing in-home, next-generation telehealth monitoring for a variety of populations including the elderly and patients with chronic, long-term illness, is now available on hundreds of Windows 7 compatible devices. This enhanced virtual care coordination system is offered by Intel-GE Care Innovations™, the new joint venture from GE and Intel, which launched
RCN reiterates call for nurses to have a place on consortia boards
The Royal College of Nursing is reiterating its call for a nurse to have a guaranteed place on every GP consortia board in England….
Five patients who died in Joplin hospital suffocated | Reuters
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JOPLIN, Missouri (Reuters) – Workers at a hospital hit by a tornado in Joplin, Missouri on Sunday describe a storm so terrible
Patient Claims Hospital Infection Led To Her Amputation " CBS …
LITTLE FALLS, Minn. (WCCO) – Two months ago, 23 patients at the St. Cloud Hospital were informed by letter that their bacterial infection was caused by a nurse stealing IV drugs. Now, one of those patients is angrily speaking out about her care and the alleged negative results.
For 36-year-old Connie Tucker, it’s the simple jobs like sweeping the kitchen floor that she
Evaluation of nurse and pharmacist independent prescribing
The study carried out in England by the universities of Southampton and Keele evaluates nurse and pharmacist independent prescribing in order to inform planning for current and future prescribers.
The report concludes that nurse and pharmacist independent prescribing is becoming a well-integrated and established
St. Luke’s staff helps design new Magic Valley hospital …
TWIN FALLS — In just 12 days, the doors will open to the brand new St. Luke’s Magic Valley state-of-the-art hospital.
The hospital is confident they will be able to transition seamlessly from the old hospital, to the new location.
Employees KTVB spoke with today are excited to be working in the facility and in some cases, see their construction ideas become reality.
Construction
Morris Hospital celebrates National Nurses Week – Herald News
MORRIS — Nursing is often described as both an art and a science.
That’s because the profession embraces dedicated people with varied interests, strengths and passions.
The same is true at Morris Hospital, where nurses work in a variety of roles throughout the organization.
Morris Hospital will join
Children’s Hospital Oakland nurses on 5-day strike
Registered nurses at Children’s Hospital Oakland walked off their jobs Thursday morning in the first day of a five-day strike that centers on disputes over health care benefits and other proposed changes to their contract.
The more than 700 registered nurses at Children’s, represented by California Nurses Association-National Nurses United, have been trying to negotiate a contract
West Middlesex has become the first maternity unit in London to achieve full accreditation as a Baby Friendly hospital, meaning that the care given to mothers and babies around infant feeding has been assessed and has reached internationally recognised standards.
French Hospital is proud to be your award-winning community hospital. Our awards and accolades are a testament to the excellence and dedication of our highly skilled physicians, employees and volunteers.
We believe in transparency and we believe your hospital should provide the highest level of quality health care and be held to a high standard for that quality and for safety. The majority of our awards and accolades are unsolicited, unbiased and come from extremely reputable third party health care ratings organization.
Groote Schuur is one of Cape Town's premier tertiary academic hospitals.
Children's Hospital Boston: We are committed to achieving and maintaining a standard of excellence in all we do.
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest hospital trusts in the country, with over 1 million patient contacts every year.
Queen Mary Hospital's mission is to provide patient-centred high quality service to the community in an effective and efficient manner by optimum utilization of available resources, through the concerted efforts of satisfying patients' needs, facilitating staff's motivation and inviting public participation;