-
Educating parents on the care required when their child is discharged with a central line is probably an eight in complexity on a rating scale of one to 10.
-
Breast-feeding is a learned skill. Just as teens must be taught to drive a car, women unfamiliar with nursing must be taught to feed their baby.
-
There are many benefits to obtaining grant money. The most obvious is that grants provide additional resources for projects. In addition, grant dollars provide an opportunity to be very focused on a particular intervention.
-
When applying for grant money, pay close attention to the application requirements and follow them precisely. If you dont they may not even look at your proposal.
-
Lake Region Healthcare Corp. in Fergus Falls, MN, put in place workgroups for each chapter on the JCAHO standards a year and a half before its survey to ensure that the medical center was in compliance. In addition, the chapter chairs decided to form a JCAHO Fun Committee to brainstorm fun and unique methods to educate staff.
-
Unlike chemotherapy, radiation, or biological therapy, most patients are familiar with surgery for it is a common form of treatment. Yet there are many issues about surgery to remove a malignant tumor that patients might not be aware of.
-
In a recent interview with Patient Education Management, Ceresa Ward, MS, RN, manager of the Center for Education and Development at University of Missouri Health Care, provided information about the lessons she has learned working in the field of patient education.
-
New guide addresses staff education efforts; Promotion of events on patient education
-
-
Information and Electronic Warfare Systems (IEWS), a business unit of BAE SYSTEMS North America in Nashua, NH, has realized millions of dollars in savings and improved employee health and safety through multifaceted programming that earned it a 2003 Corporate Health Achievement Award for an outstanding portfolio of programs and proactive interventions for patients with CTDs [cumulative trauma disorders] from the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM).
