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By developing a case management model that frees RN case managers to do what they do best coordinate care Fauquier Hospital in Warrenton, VA, has reduced its average length of stay without affecting the readmission rate.
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Aggressive fluid resuscitation, which normally would be used in younger trauma patients, potentially could do serious harm to an elder patient, warns Rhyan Weaver, RN, BSN, CEN, clinical supervisor in the ED at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, AZ.
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In the Planetree model, staff don't treat patients like they'd want to be treated. Instead, they find out how the patient wants to be treated, says Linda Sharkey, RN, MSN, vice president of patient care services and chief nurse executive at Fauquier Hospital.
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There are any number of reasons why an ED and its hospital would have difficulty complying with The Joint Commission standard regarding egress, says Diana S. Contino, RN, MBA, FAEN, senior manager of health care with Deloitte Consulting in Los Angeles.
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Initial data on the use of cell phone photos of injuries, taken by the patients themselves in the ED at The George Washington University Hospital in Washington, DC, offers the promise that they might have the potential to speed treatment without sacrificing diagnostic accuracy.
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Nurses and patients in the ED at The George Washington University Hospital in Washington, DC, have responded positively to a new study that allows patients to e-mail cell phone photos of their injuries to ED physicians prior to their treatment.
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More women are taking a second look at the intrauterine device (IUD) for contraception. IUD insertions went up 23% between January 2008 and January 2009, according to SDI Health, a health care analytics firm in Plymouth Meeting, PA.
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Where do male services fit in the picture when it comes to your facility? While most family planning centers report a percentage of male patients who receive sexually transmitted infection care (74%) and contraceptive care (68%), males make up only 5% nationally of their overall caseload.
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As a reproductive health clinician, you might be looking to upcoming health care reform to make a difference in improving the status of sexual health care in the United States.
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Results of a recent analysis of a survey of HIV care providers shows that clinicians often don't screen for genital herpes (herpes simplex virus-2 or HSV-2) in HIV-positive patients.
