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The following is a guest blog from Anthony Cirillo: In his latest book Warren Bennis raises questions about the nature of leadership....
At a press briefing today at AARP's Washington headquarters, AARP Chief Executive A...
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Sick Economy: http://bit.ly/2hk390 Over 46 million people living in the United States have no health care
coverage. Worse yet, the jobless rate is at a record high as the
recession's effects sweep across the nation, leaving patients without
insurance and stressing medical facilities with increases in emergency
department a...nd community clinic visits. In this exclusive video report,
watch as physicians, patients and insurance experts explain how the
turbulent economy is sickening our nation's health as Americans rally
for change and health care reform.Read More
coverage. Worse yet, the jobless rate is at a record high as the
recession's effects sweep across the nation, leaving patients without
insurance and stressing medical facilities with increases in emergency
department a...nd community clinic visits. In this exclusive video report,
watch as physicians, patients and insurance experts explain how the
turbulent economy is sickening our nation's health as Americans rally
for change and health care reform.Read More
A new study from PHI, a national non-profit organization working to strengthen the health care services workforce, reveals that less than one-fifth of Massachusetts direct-care workers (nursing home assistants, home health care aides and personal care attendants) are enrolled in employer-sponsored ...
We all know that washing our hands is the best way to guard against the spread of germs. But there are several other measures that can also help protect us from contamination...
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The economic meltdown coupled with the plummeting real estate market is making some Americans more than a little worried: It's making them sick.
Women's bodies generate a stronger antibody response to the H1N1 vaccine than men's do, so only half the vaccine may be needed to immunize them, according to an op ed piece in the N.Y. Times. "If we could give women a smaller dose, there would be more vaccine to go around," say authors Sabra L....
The CDC is just beginning to understand why so little H1N1 virus is available to Americans in need, reports National Public Radio. First, vaccine manufacturers didn't have the reagents to know how much active ingredient was in production...
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There's a debate raging in a Florida retirement community over evicting a six-year-old girl who lives there with her grandparents. Kimberly Broffman is the little girl at the center of it all...
Cheryl Mathis
Hello to all my fellow nurses...
What would you suggest to reduce the cost of healthcare without compromising patients' health and safety. Name three changes. Consider how could you help make these changes?
What are some ways that nurses could take advantage of emerging technololgies in health care and information systems ?
Frances Shani Parker
Nursing Home Video Poem: “Living Colors”
“Living Colors” was inspired by one of my hospice patients who had Alzheimer’s disease and poor eyesight. My patient needed assistance to eat, but there was a staff shortage that day. Using her fingers, she started feeding herself. A hospice volunteer, I arrived to find her with... food smeared around her mouth. After wondering what that experience might have been like for her, I wrote "Living Colors."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpRhKDbsI
Frances Shani Parker
“Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog”
http://hospiceandnursinghomes.blogspot.c
“Living Colors” was inspired by one of my hospice patients who had Alzheimer’s disease and poor eyesight. My patient needed assistance to eat, but there was a staff shortage that day. Using her fingers, she started feeding herself. A hospice volunteer, I arrived to find her with... food smeared around her mouth. After wondering what that experience might have been like for her, I wrote "Living Colors."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpRhKDbsI
Frances Shani Parker
“Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog”
http://hospiceandnursinghomes.blogspot.c
Two new studies from The New England Journal of Medicine indicate that nursing home residents may be receiving futile care measures at the end of their lives. In one study, doctors examined health records of 3,702 nursing-home residents across the nation who started dialysis between 1998 and 2000...
With the H1N1 virus lurking in our office (so far, one confirmed case), experts agree that aside from vaccination, the best defense is thorough handwashing. Check out this video from the Washington Post that shows proper handwashing technique...
A study published in The New England Journal of Medicine questions whether dialysis is the best treatment for nursing home patients...
