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As a leader of your organization, do you see your marketing director as an influential member of your management team, or is your marketing director someone who merely follows up with physicians and other referral sources? Is your marketing plan synchronized with your daily operations, or is it separate from the overall direction in which your hospice is going?
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While there are many positive aspects of home health nursing that help in recruitment, the increasing paperwork required by regulatory and reimbursement organizations is detrimental, says Coleen Conway-Svec, RN, MS, MBA, chief operating officer of the Visiting Nurse Association of Southeast Michigan in Oak Park.
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There is no magic formula for attracting the best applicants to your agency, but using a combination of marketing tools to reach nurses with news of job openings will help you find the people you want, according to Don Richardson, vice president of administration for the Visiting Nurse Association of Texas in Dallas.
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Study: Caregivers suffer long-term effects of stress; New neuropathic pain guidelines published; Study shows caregivers overestimate pain; RWJF announces funding of leadership centers; CMS rolls out its quality initiative; FDA approves new Alzheimers drug
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St Johns Wort and Drug Interactions; Serum Potassium and Stroke Risk Among Hypertensive Adults; Skin Cancer Prevention and Detection Practices Among Siblings of Patients with Melanoma, TZDs and HF in People with Type 2 Diabetes; Exercise Plus Behavioral Management in Patients with AD; Spironolactone in Resistant HBP
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The results of genetic analysis of a strain of S aureus with high-level resistance to vancomycin suggest that this resistance was the consequence of genetic transfer from a VRE to an MRSA, each present in and on the unfortunate patient who served as the incubator.
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In a multicenter study of occupational HIV exposures, 38% of source patients had genotype mutations associated with resistance to antiretroviral drugs. Recent antiretroviral treatment history was highly associated with resistance.
