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Consider Submitting Nominations for the Taskforce on States’ Roles in Electronic Health Information Exchange The National Governors Association is seeking nominations for membership on a taskforce of the State Alliance for e-Health that will examine issues regarding state government...Weekend in Nursing Info...
There will be a Weekend in Nursing Informatics, March 28-30, 2008 at Clark Memorial Hospital in Jeffersonville IN 47130. What is WINI, (Weekend Immersion in Nursing Informatics). WINI is a nursing informatics continuing education course that travels around the country to provide ...10 Terrible Patients Yo...
A reader provided me a link to an interesting article on “10 Terrible Patients You’ll Find In Every Hospital …And How To Deal With Them.” I think all of us had to deal with this situation at one point in our professional life as a nurse. Read more… Special thanks...Florida Nursing School ...
Nursing students at Seminole Community College use patient simulators to learn new medical procedures without risking patient safety. The students also use video iPods to study medical procedure demonstrations and listen to lectures. Orlando Sentinel. With the state facing a nursing...Nurse Blog of the Week:...
Welcome to the new & improved NursingFun.com. We’re striving to be the very best resource we can be for both fun and information for an often underappreciated group of people – nurses. Our site is always growing, and we welcome any feedback that any of our...Nurse Blog of the Week:...
Epstein LaRue, RN, BS created Highway Hypodermics: The Website as a precursor to the book, “Highway Hypodermics: Your Road Map To Travel Nursing.” Features of this website include city guides, destination, locations, travel company profiles, and travel...64% of Nurses Believe W...
According to a study released by Spyglass Consulting Group, the results of a comprehensive end-user market study focused on the current state of computing adoption by nurses across the United States. Spyglass conducted more than 100 in-depth telephone interviews with nurses...URGENT – Immediat...
Stop amendment threatening Title VIII funding. Call your Senators TODAY, tell them to Vote NO on the Allard Amendment The Senate is scheduled to vote at 5:30 this evening (10/22) on an amendment that would diminish funding for nursing workforce development programs by 10%. Sen. Wayne...Violations at Universit...
Violations at University of Iowa hospitals Iowa state inspectors found 41 health and safety violations at University of Iowa Hospitals. The hospital is accused of failing to report the deaths of nine patients who were allegedly restrained at the time of their death. Inspectors also cited...Essential Nursing Resou...
The ICIRN’s (Interagency Council on Information Resources in Nursing) Essential Nursing Resources has just been published in NLN’s Nursing Education Perspectives, September / October 2007 Vol.28 No.5. Here’s an electronic link to the pdf...Malpractice Suits Again...
The following article on increasing claims against individual nurses is from www.Nurse.com, and is the web site’s featured article for California for September 5th. Towards the end of the article is a recommendation regarding nurses purchasing their own professional liability coverage....Google’s Response to ...
I have posted about Google’s Healthcare Advisory board and the lack of Nursing representation. This was not very well accepted by a good number of nursing commmunities. CARING being one of them, a big push to educate google became a mission. As a member of Caring, the president...Martin Luther King Hosp...
In case you are out of touch, effective 1900 today, Martin Luther King Hospital in Southern California (after all the headlines) will be closing its doors- they failed the JCAHO inspection today. We just got the news over our Reddinet system. Thanks, InterOpNurse Comment posted by Ginger...NG Tube Insertion...
Comment posted by Katiebell at 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Yugh. Nostalgic for you , Maybe…. that was the one thing opted out of…. luckily its not required in most clinicals any more….we just bungle along on real patients…. ...Scottsdale Healthcare L...
Scottsdale (Arizona) Healthcare Launches the Healthcare Industry’s First Fully Integrated Meal Ordering System Written by EditorsChoice Thursday, 02 August 2007 In-Room Meal Service Ordering Now Available to Hospital Patients Scottsdale, AZ (PRWEB) July 17, 2007 —...
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