On a recent tour of a high-profile green hospital, I noticed something odd—no recycling bins; not in the nurses’ stations, not next to the copier, not anywhere.

This raises an important concern and is a key reason that Hospitals for a Healthy Environment (H2E) is a partner in the launch of Clean Design and Operations magazine. Creating a truly green and healthy building doesn’t

Due to the aging of the 78 million baby boomers in the U….

A national survey of nurses’ exposures to chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and radiation on the job suggests there are links between serious health problems such as cancer, asthma, miscarriages, and children’s birth defects and the duration and intensity of these exposures. Although it was not a controlled, statistically designed study, the survey included 1,500 nurses from all 50 states.

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A second perspective relates to system efficiency, where unnecessary walking can be considered as waste. It is a type of nonproductive use of nurses’ time, which is better utilized at bedside or other care tasks that add value to the services rendered. Distance walked and time spent in walking is considered an important metric in Lean operations design and intervention. Furthermore, the extensive

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Chief administrator: Kenneth L. Meehan, Executive Vice-President of Operations, (925) 947-5348

Firm: Ratcliff, (510) 899-6425

Design team: Crodd Chin, Project Designer; Christopher “Kit” Ratcliff, AIA, NCARB, LEED, Principal-in-Charge; Thomas Patterson, AIA, Project Manager; Bill Wong, AIA, CSI, CCS, LEED,

Landscape architect Thomas Biro will receive the 2009 “Honor Award” at the annual convention of the New Jersey Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (NJASLA) in Atlantic City on Jan. 25.

Biro, whose business is based in Hillsborough, New Jersey, is being honored for the rooftop therapy garden he designed and built at Children’s Specialized Hospital,

This document provides guidance for nurses undertaking research who need to seek informed consent from patients for their work.

Nurses are taking an increasingly active role in research so it is important for them to understand the principles associated with informed consent and the process of obtaining

Lorenzo Nursing, the iSOFT Lorenzo Enterprise solution for nurses, went live on another surgical ward at the St Jansdal hospital in Harderwijk, the Netherlands. This go-live follows the successful completion of a pilot on the surgical ward 1 West, and signifies the starting point for the roll-out of Lorenzo Nursing on all surgical and medical wards at St Jansdal.

Lorenzo Nursing is a software

In his first major speech on the NHS on Thursday, Nick Clegg made the case for competition where it could improve services for patients.

One NHS hospital is due to have its management taken over by a social enterprise after a competative tendering process, an approach that could be tried with other struggling hospitals, as

Doctors and nurses set up a triage center in the parking lot amid crushed cars and a smashed helicopter, but once the storm victims were evaluated, they had to be sent to other hospitals for treatment. Some staff members who reported to work at St. John’s after the tornado were themselves injured but toiled through the night anyway.

On the morning after the storm, parts of the hospital