On the rise: Team-based care coordination model takes off

June 18, 2013 By Leave a Comment

(Nurse.com) While the patient-centered medical home concept is not new, passage of the Affordable Care Act has elevated the idea of a whole-person orientation to care that’s delivered in a more coordinated way to engaged patients.

“It’s a team-based approach to management of our patients,” said Felice Lewaine, RN, medical home care coordinator at two primary care offices with Hunterdon Healthcare in Flemington, N.J. “I’m making sure all of the care is coordinated to help patients manage their health.”  [Read more...]

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With nurses at risk of compassion fatigue, hospitals try to ease their stress

June 11, 2013 By Leave a Comment
(Washington Post) Jan Powers, a clinical nurse manager in the pediatric oncology unit at the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, remembers how hard it was for her team after the death of a child. They met with an art therapist, who brought clay.

“There was a lot of pounding and kneading, and while we made our pots and whatever, people started to talk,” she said of the session last summer. “When your hands are occupied and you’re not in the spotlight, it’s easier to say things like ‘I feel really bad’ or ‘This child touched my heart and I’m grieving.’ It gives staff a chance to create out of something that is hurtful and painful.” [Read more...]

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Group gives $1M to York health care program

June 7, 2013 By Leave a Comment

(York Dispatch) The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has granted $1 million to York’s Aligning Forces for Quality program.

The program addresses the availability and quality of health care in southcentral Pennsylvania and will use the grant to complete its two last years in service in its current form. [Read more...]

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Doctors block bids to expand nurse, dentist roles in Ill.

June 5, 2013 By Leave a Comment

(Pantagraph.com) Nurses, dentists and psychologists asked the Illinois Legislature this spring for more authority to make medical decisions with demand expected to surge under the federal health care law, but each time lawmakers sided with doctors and turned them down.

It was a resounding victory in Springfield for the Illinois State Medical Society, which has represented doctors in a longstanding turf battle over how to address a growing shortage of medical services in rural and low-income urban neighborhoods across the state. [Read more...]

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All nurses should know how to help when disaster strikes

June 4, 2013 By Leave a Comment

(Nurse.com) On April 15, two bombs were detonated at the Boston Marathon. On April 17, an explosion at a fertilizer plant rocked the small town of West, Texas. A month later, on May 15, tornadoes wreaked havoc across towns in north Texas. Twisters again caused enormous damage when they blew threw the Oklahoma City area May 19, destroying entire neighborhoods, including an elementary school and a hospital. [Read more...]

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Antitrust concerns with UPMC debated

June 3, 2013 By Leave a Comment

(Altoona Mirror) SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania has sounded the alarm on antitrust issues in its continuing effort to arrest the momentum of UPMC’s planned acquisition of Altoona Regional Health System. [Read more...]

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Checkup: Is it Really a Doctor You’re Seeing?

May 30, 2013 By Leave a Comment

(FOX) You’re sitting in the doctor’s office or maybe a local clinic that’s part of your health insurance network, and in walks a white-coat-clad professional. Your impulse may be to say, “Good morning, doctor” — but it’s becoming more likely that the person who’s ready to attend to your medical needs is no doctor, but a nurse practitioner or physician assistant. [Read more...]

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Nurse Bullying Summit

May 23, 2013 By Leave a Comment

(PSNA) PSNA will hold its annual Summit, “Bullying: Are You the Aggressor, the Bystander or the Target,” on Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at DeSales University, Center Valley. This event was originally scheduled to be in November 2012 and has been rescheduled due to Hurricane Sandy. PSNA is pleased to host keynote speaker Cheryl Dellasega, PhD, RN, CRNP at this year’s event. [Read more...]

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Study: Hospitals’ finances are healthy

May 21, 2013 By Leave a Comment

(Tribune Democrat) Hospitals across the region maintained financial health last year, a new state report shows.

But leaders say the continued strength required constant scrutiny and creative programming to identify new opportunities in a dynamic industry. [Read more...]

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Researcher searches for global views of nurses’ end-of-life care for patients

May 15, 2013 By Leave a Comment

(Medical Express) The April issue of the International Nursing Review reported the findings about the end-of-life preferences of 1,089 nurses in the first multinational and cross-cultural view of nurses’ end-of-life care choices.

Two factors influenced the care of people dying: lack of knowledge about the patient’s wishes and the call of duty, according to Joyce Fitzpatrick, PhD, RN, FAAN, from the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University and a lead investigator on the study. [Read more...]

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