Archive for August, 2007
Friday, August 31st, 2007
A growing number of health clinics owned by nurses with advanced training are opening in rural areas of Missouri, the AP/St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. [click link for full article]
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Friday, August 31st, 2007
Median compensation for U.S. primary care physicians increased by 2% to 171,519 in 2006, compared with a 3.2% increase in the inflation rate, according to an annual survey released on Monday by the Medical Group Management Association, the Denver Rocky Mountain News reports. [click link for full article]
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Friday, August 31st, 2007
It's a prescription for success--by adding education and caring concern to a primary-care physician's treatment plan, nurse care managers significantly improve depressed patients' outcomes.
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Friday, August 31st, 2007
During the past four years, hospitals have become more comfortable with privacy provisions in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and some are now tightening up enforcement.
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Friday, August 31st, 2007
Well over half (58 per cent) of professional nurses have admitted they wouldn't report abuse of an older person in their care for fear of misinterpreting the situation. Two thirds say that responsibility for too many patients prevents them from giving the best possible care, according to a major new survey carried out for Help the Aged. [click link for full article]
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Thursday, August 30th, 2007
In the days following Hurricane Katrina, countless numbers watched, and listened, to the growing chaos in disbelief. Thousands of registered nurses from across the nation, frustrated in their efforts to volunteer through government or private relief agencies turned to the National Nurses Organizing Committee/California Nurses Association to do what they do best provide hands-on, front line care to the sick and injured. [click link for full article]
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Thursday, August 30th, 2007
A 33 year-old nurse from Newtownards has been struck off the register after sexually harassing colleagues and two students. A panel of the Nursing and Midwifery conduct and competence committee found Jonathan Gourley, who was employed as an F grade senior nurse and mentor at Ulster Hospital, Dundonald at the time the incidents occurred, guilty of misconduct and removed him from the register. [click link for full article]
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Thursday, August 30th, 2007
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), the UK regulator for nurses and midwives, has published its latest annual fitness to practise report for 2005-2006. [click link for full article]
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
Responding to the article, 'Safety fears over explosion in nurse prescribing' in Pulse Magazine, General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, Dr Peter Carter, said:"Nurse prescribing has been a historic move for the nursing profession and it is one of the most successful parts of the current NHS reforms. [click link for full article]
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
In response to the 2.7 billion dollars cuts to Medicare that were passed by the U.S. House of Representatives in the Children's Health and Medicare Protection Act (CHAMP Act), the long term care provider community today initiated an aggressive TV and print campaign in Congressional districts across the country. [click link for full article]
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