-
The American Association of Colleges of Nursing has collected the following data on the current state of the nursing shortage and actions different organizations are taking to address it.
-
-
New committee to advise on protection of human embryos; Tenet hires auditor to examine fraud charges; Pfizer to pay millions for fraud case settlement.
-
-
Intensive care is part of a continuum of progressive patient care, and a significant number of research groups are now focusing their attention on ways to improve the organization of the ICU and its place in the continuum of care. An important aspect of this process is the evaluation of ICU discharge policies and their consequences.
-
With the health care penny being squeezed dry its not unexpected that nurses report they are unable to provide quality of care consistent with professional standards in todays hospitals, says Julie Sochalski, RN, PhD, professor of nursing at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing.
-
Any change model that can transform a government agency successfully must be powerful stuff indeed, and it seems that the High Performance Development Model (HPDM) at the Department of Veterans Affairs/Veterans Health Administration (VHA), in Washington, DC, has done just that.
-
A software application developed by the University of Michigan School of Nursing in Ann Arbor offers the promise of providing a means to collect comparable data for nursing care in the areas of diagnosis, intervention, and outcomes, resulting in far more accurate information both for self-evaluation and benchmarking across health care organizations.
-
Even before the first spade was turned in the ground, the new St. Josephs Hospital building in Westbend, WI, was far safer than its predecessor. This was by design construction design, that is.
-
Collection of baseline data was completed in spring 2000; the findings did not hold any major surprises, recalls Julie Jones, MA, director of resource development for the CHA.
