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Little progress in participation of early-career registered nurses in hospital quality improvement activities

Nurses are the largest group of health care providers in the U.S., and health care leaders and experts agree that engaging registered nurses (RNs) in quality improvement (QI) efforts is essential to improving our health care ...

Health created Jan 28, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new approach to deadly influenza outbreaks in nursing homes

(Medical Xpress)—In developed countries people over 65 years old are the most likely to die from an influenza outbreak and people in nursing homes, where the virus is difficult to control, are especially vulnerable.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Oct 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study suggests high use of medicare skilled nursing benefit at end of life

Almost one-third of older adults received care in a skilled nursing facility in the last six months of life under the Medicare posthospitalization benefit, according to a report published Online First by Archives of Internal Me ...

Health created Oct 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NYC schools dispensing morning-after pill to girls (Update)

(AP)—New York City is handing out the morning-after pill to girls as young as 14 at more than 50 public high schools, sometimes even before they have had sex. The campaign is believed to be unprecedented in its size and ...

Medications created Sep 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Half of care home patients suffer drug errors

(Medical Xpress) -- Errors in administration of medication are a serious problem in long-term residential care. New research completed by the University of Warwick and the University of the West of England, Bristol (UWE) ...

Health created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New registered nurses' lack of geographic mobility has negative implications for rural health

A study on the geographic mobility of registered nurses (RNs) recently published in the December Health Affairs magazine suggests that the profession's relative lack of mobility has serious implications for access to hea ...

Health created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0