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Hospital Case Managements annual salary survey was mailed to readers along with the April 2003 issue. Questionnaires, response forms, and postage-paid envelopes were inserted into that newsletter.
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Each year, Covenant Health System in Knoxville, TN, has a Case Management University for nurses in the system who are interested in becoming case managers.
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Its every quality managers worst nightmare: Your facility is the lead story on tonights news because the wrong person was operated on. These days, if you operate on the wrong patient or do the wrong procedure, youre going to be on the front page of the newspaper, warns DeNene G. Cofield, RN, BSN, CNOR, administrative director of surgical services at Medical Center East in Birmingham, AL.
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During a recent Joint Commission on Accredita-tion of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) survey at Regional Medical Center of Orangeburg (SC) and Calhoun Counties, surveyors were very impressed with the process developed to assess and improve physician handwriting, reports
Indun Whetsell, the facilitys director of quality management.
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You probably are keenly aware of the need to comply with Joint Commission on Accredita-tion of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) requirements for performance improvement.
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In response to recommendations from the Ameri-can Heart Association (AHA), in 1999 the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations added a requirement for review of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to the hospital performance improvement standard.
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Long hours and steady salaries are current trends for health care quality managers, according to the latest Hospital Peer Review Salary Survey. Although opportunities abound for todays quality professionals, you may need additional skills to reap the benefits, say leaders in the field.
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Emergency practitioners must be well versed in the management of diabetic emergencies. New-onset diabetes discovered on presentation to the emergency department (ED) is not an infrequent occurrence.
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