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A program that targets women at risk for premature deliveries for case management has paid off for ConnectiCare, a regional HMO based in Farmington, CT.
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Two programs at Passport Health Plan help pregnant Medicaid recipients overcome the obstacles to a healthy pregnancy and follow preterm infants through the neonatal intensive care unit and back home.
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A 2003 Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regulation that interpreted EMTALA not to apply to inpatients does not have the "force and effect of law," according to a recent decision by a U.S. District Court in Puerto Rico.
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Patients with heart failure may be among the most challenging for case managers who are coordinating their care. Patients with heart failure must take multiple medications, eat a low-salt diet to keep their condition under control, and monitor their condition constantly.
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A young man and woman from Virginia Polytechnic Institute arriving about 8 a.m. on April 16 with gunshot wounds came as quite a shock to ED nurses at Montgomery Regional Hospital, a 146-bed facility in rural Blacksburg, VA.
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If a child was undergoing an intravenous (IV) catheter placement, would you offer anything to relieve the pain? The answer for many ED nurses would be "no," according to a new study.
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If you have estimated the weight of an adult patient recently, your guess was probably not accurate, says a new study. ED nurses and physicians estimated weights of 241 patients, and they were within 5% of the patient's true weight only 33% of the time, researchers found.
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Every ED nurse at Montgomery Regional Hospital in Blacksburg, VA, recently attended the Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC) offered by the Emergency Nurses Association. The nurses never dreamed they soon would be relying on this training to care for 14 gunshot wound victims in a single day.
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Five or six gunshot wounds in one night. "Drive-bys" in which a person's body is dumped by the ED entrance. These are not unusual occurrences for ED nurses at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, as the only Level 1 Trauma Center in the area, says Julie McInnis, RN, BSN, ED nurse.
