Archive for January, 2009
Friday, January 30th, 2009
In an effort to help hospitals comply with the recently enacted Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Medicare Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) rule, Medline Industries, Inc. today introduced a new educational CD to instruct physicians on assessing and documenting pressure ulcers.
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Friday, January 30th, 2009
Treating mild gestational diabetes reduces a woman's risk of delivering an excessively large infant and developing pre-eclampsia by 50%, according to a study released Thursday at the meeting of the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine in San Diego,
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Thursday, January 29th, 2009
When Barack Obama was sworn into office as the 44th president of the United States on the bright sunny morning of Jan. 20, a crowd of millions braved the icy cold weather to watch.
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Thursday, January 29th, 2009
Searching for a new workplace to call home? You might have to get on the waiting list for some of the hospitals that made
Fortune Magazine’s 2009 list of the “100 Best Companies to Work For.” The 13 hospitals and health care systems named to this year’s list show that an extraordinary dedication to both patients and employees help make an organization great, and a place that nurses don’t want to leave.
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Thursday, January 29th, 2009
Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives approved the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The economic recovery bill that is intended to save or create three to four million jobs and help stabilize the economy and restore public confidence.
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Thursday, January 29th, 2009
A Tennessee medical video network launched on Monday will allow physicians treating pregnant women in 11 rural counties to consult with obstetrics specialists in Knoxville and Chattanooga when major problems arise, the AP/Tennessean reports. Using the network, perinatologists from
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Thursday, January 29th, 2009
The growing debate over the placement of embryos moved to center stage last year at the first national conference held on the topic. In her Pediatric Ethics, Issues, & Commentary column in the November-December 2008 issue of Pediatric Nursing, Anita J.
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Thursday, January 29th, 2009
Using a Florida elementary school as a testing site, researchers have found that a targeted asthma education program effectively increased understanding and dispelled some prevalent myths about this common childhood disease. In the
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Thursday, January 29th, 2009
On a day in which Congress prepared to vote on the Obama administration's proposed $800 billion economic stimulus package, the nation's largest organization of registered nurses said expanding Medicare to cover all Americans would be one of the most effective economic recovery programs - and could virtually end the nation's healthcare crisis overnight.
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Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
Delivering quality care in today’s complex and challenging health care environment requires nursing leaders who understand the business and economics of the industry. To meet that need Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, has launched a master’s of management in health care program.
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