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Nurses at Sullivan County Community Hospital Home Health and Hospice in Sullivan, IN, don't spend time looking for a copy of the Braden Scale, documentation checklists, pressure ulcer intervention guidelines, or teaching tools they just pick up a pre-packaged envelope and go.
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Pressure ulcer education is pretty straightforward for nurses who want up-to-date clinical information that will help them select the best interventions to prevent pressure ulcers and the best treatments to help their patients with ulcers...
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As sicker, more complex patients are increasingly cared for by home health nurses, the risk for needlestick injuries also increases.
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Following the success of a program that provides remote monitoring of chronically ill patients in poverty-stricken rural areas, Roanoke Chowan Community Health Center in Ahoskie, NC, is replicating the program at six other community health centers in North Carolina.
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Older patients who are at high risk for health care utilization are staying healthier and out of the hospital thanks to a new primary care enhancement program called "Guided Care."
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Being a nurse's aide or orderly is the most injury-prone job in America. Those aides are four times as likely to be injured on the job as the average worker, and their rate of injury tops freight haulers and handlers, and construction laborers.
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A very low-carbohydrate diet results in similar weight loss as a low-fat diet, but participants on a low-fat diet have improved psychological mood and well-being compared with those on a low-carbohydrate diet.
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Data from Australia and New Zealand show that the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic may pose a substantial burden on our health care systems, one we may have never endured in recent history.
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