Archive for March, 2008
Monday, March 31st, 2008
In a dramatic breakthrough for the aspirations of Texas registered nurses to have a stronger voice to speak out for patients and themselves, a northwest Houston hospital Friday night became the first hospital in Texas to win union collective bargaining rights.
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Rush University is well represented in the 2009 edition of "America's Best Graduate Schools" survey published in the April 7 issue of U.S. News & World Report magazine. Eight programs in the Rush College of Nursing and three programs in the College of Health Sciences are ranked among the top 25 in the country. Rush College of Health Sciences earned placement in three disciplines. The Doctor of Audiology (AuD) program is ranked ninth.
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Baxa Corporation announces a call for research papers involving its new PadLock® Set Saver product. The PadLock device is designed to promote best practice for aseptic IV administration set storage; preventing contamination of the administration set when disconnected from the patient. The recently released product provides temporary storage of the IV administration line between drug administrations, replacing the need for single-use, sterile caps.
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Just months before the primaries, presidential hopefuls Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain are positioning their health care plans to get ahead of the competition. But with such diverse ideas about the future of America's health care, it can be difficult to figure out how these plans will affect an already shaky system.
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
While today's shaky economy has many people worried about job security, the nursing field has been an exception. In fact, there is currently a critical shortage of nurses in the U.S. by some 44,000 positions. Furthermore, according to the latest projections from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, more than 1.
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
A mental health nurse convicted of obtaining property by deception and false accounting was struck off the NMC's Register at a hearing in London on Tuesday March 3rd 2008.Oladele Awomolo, 42, admitted that his fitness to practice was impaired because of his convictions but argued for leniency from the NMC's Conduct and Competence Committee which heard the case.
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
The 15th annual 100 Top Hospitals list was released this week by Thomson Healthcare, revealing some new additions to the list as well as some long-time recipients. These hospitals are recognized as "national benchmarks for success" in both patient care and financial growth.
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
An annual analysis to help health leaders identify areas of health care delivery that need quality improvement now includes important information such as each state's rate of obesity, health insurance coverage, mental illness and the number of specialist doctors.
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Immigrants constitute more than 25% of health care workers in Massachusetts, including pharmacists, medical scientists and surgeons, according to an executive summary of a study commissioned by the Immigrant Learning Center, the Boston Globe reports.
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
The fate of the Anne Arundel County, Md., Healthy Start program, which seeks to reduce the county's infant mortality rate, is "unclear" after the loss of $610,000 in federal funding, the Annapolis Capital reports.
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