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A report offering guidelines to help health care organizations ensure effective, patient-centered communications with patients of diverse backgrounds has been released by the American Medical Association (AMA) Ethical Force Program.
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Health education aimed at healthy babies should begin long before conception, before even the thought of conception.
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Recently, Save the Children, an international relief organization, reported that the U.S. infant mortality rate is nearly five per 1,000 babies.
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Navigating the health care system often is bewildering for people who were born in the United States and speak English; it may be incomprehensible for some of this country's growing immigrant population, who bring their own cultural beliefs and practices with them.
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When Jane Cavanaugh, RN, CCM, CPHQ, nurse case manager for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, began managing the care of a Vietnamese woman with lung cancer, she researched beliefs of the Vietnamese culture and tailored her care management plan around them.
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If a patient in your ED goes into cardiac arrest, would your goal be to get the defibrillator to the patient as quickly as possible -- even if that means delaying continuous cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)?
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After an elderly white female told ED nurses at Spartanburg (SC) Regional Healthcare System that she had been having abdominal pain for several days, the patient waited to be seen. By the time she was assessed by the physician, the woman was experiencing neck and jaw pain.
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When ED nurses at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis performed a literature search on fall risk, they were disappointed.
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When a group of guests at a motel in Ocean City, MD, were brought to an ED with headaches and nausea, they were treated for food poisoning -- but a carbon monoxide (CO) leak was the actual cause of their symptoms.
