Archive for April, 2008
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
The rural health workforce audit demonstrates clearly that nurses and midwives are "holding the fort" in rural and remote primary health care, yet professional boundaries, legislative barriers, and lack of support are hampering effective delivery of care.
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Fears of redundancy and downgrading are continuing to plague the NHS as it heads for a £1.8 billion surplus, according to a survey of specialist and experienced nurses by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN). The survey of nearly 330 UK specialist and experienced nurses found a third said their organisation had a vacancy freeze in place and one in four have been at risk of redundancy in their current role, with 20 per cent still at risk.
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Nine out of ten (1) accident & emergency (A&E) nurses have felt unduly pressured to meet the four-hour waiting target, according to a new survey from the Royal College of Nursing (RCN). The survey of over 500 frontline A&E nursing staff shows that the pressure to meet the four-hour waiting time has had negative consequences for the quality of patient care. Three quarters (75%) of nurses say that patients were regularly admitted to inappropriate wards (2) just to meet the target.
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Maine Gov. John Baldacci (D) on Wednesday signed into law a bill (LD 2253) that gives state pharmacists the authority to provide certified professional midwives with certain medications for pregnant women and infants for administration during home births, the Bangor Daily News reports.
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
The NHS is too focused on keeping down costs at the expense of quality patient care, according to the Royal College of Nursing (RCN). Today at its annual Congress, the RCN will be calling for a new era of targets and health reform that are care driven not cost driven. In his speech to Congress later today, Dr Peter Carter, Chief Executive & General Secretary of the RCN will say: "It's time to shift the balance away from the target culture back to quality care.
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
An increase in paperwork is preventing nurses from spending enough time caring for patients, according to a new survey for the Royal College of Nursing (RCN). The increasing burden of administration imposed on nurses means they spend more than a million hours every week on paperwork and clerical tasks .
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Inspired by the popular television drama "CSI", investigators in the Netherlands have trialed methods used by forensic scientists at crime scenes to highlight infection risks in their hospital. Researchers at Deventer Hospital used Luminol, a chemical used by crime scene investigators, to detect traces of blood in their hemodialysis unit. Luminol reacts with microscopic amounts of blood to produce bright blue luminescence, which allows investigators to track invisible blood splashes in the environment. The results of this experiment are reported in a new study published in the
Journal of Hospital Infection.
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
The Senate Indian Affairs Committee on Thursday approved a bill sponsored by Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) that aims to encourage American Indians to pursue careers in health care, the AP/Billings Gazette reports.
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
Eight out of ten nurses admit they have left work feeling upset or distressed because they have not been able to ensure their patients have been treated with dignity. The survey of more than two thousand nurses by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) also found that nurses want dignity to be given a higher priority in the workplace, but they face significant obstacles to delivering the kind of care they would like.
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