(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...]
Checkup: Is it Really a Doctor You’re Seeing?
May 30, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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...]
A Penn Nursing Student Finds Her Niche for Helping
April 19, 2013 By Leave a Comment
(Penn News) Marissa DeCesaris hopes to make an impact on improving care for the mentally ill.
The Nursing junior, a Marlton, New Jersey native, became interested in the field after taking a psychology class in high school. Her interested deepened as a Penn freshman, while working with Nursing Professor Nancy Hanrahan researching mental health services and people with mental illness. [Read more...]
Pennsylvania nurse organization opposes nurse-patient ratios, but wants state-mandated input, and possible fines against hospitals
April 17, 2013 By 1 Comment
(Pennlive) Some organizations continue to push for state-required nurse-to-patient ratios in Pennsylvania. But another nurse organization opposes ratios, while pushing for a new law requiring hospitals to accept nurse input on staffing levels, and allowing fines against hospitals that don’t comply. [Read more...]
Pennsylvania hospitals selected to participate in AACN’s nurse leadership skill-building program
March 29, 2013 By Leave a Comment
(International Business Times) The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) selects seven Pennsylvania hospitals as the newest participants in its hospital-based nurse leadership and innovation training program. [Read more...]
PA nursing home workers advocate for stricter regulation
March 19, 2013 By Leave a Comment
(Central Penn Business) More than 100 nursing home workers gathered in Harrisburg yesterday to support three proposed bills that would increase regulations on Pennsylvania nursing homes.
The gathering follows a report by Service Employees International Union Healthcare Pennsylvania that nearly 30 percent of Pennsylvania facilities analyzed did not spend at least 95 percent of their resident care Medicaid component amount on resident care costs in fiscal year 2011. [Read more...]
Nursing by the numbers considered
March 18, 2013 By Leave a Comment
(Sunday Dispatch) How many nurses should a hospital maternity ward have? How about the intensive care or neonatal units? Should they be the same numbers at rural and inner city hospitals?
The correct answer now depends upon each individual hospital’s best practices. But state legislators want to take the guess work out of staffing. [Read more...]
New directors join Pennsylvania State Nurses Association
March 1, 2013 By Leave a Comment
(Nurse.com) The Pennsylvania State Nurses Association recently elected five new members to serve on its board of directors.
At PSNA’s November meeting, PSNA CEO Betsy M. Snook, RN, MEd, BSN, welcomed its board members. [Read more...]
For doctors, hospitals, ‘sorry’ is a hard word to say
February 25, 2013 By Leave a Comment
(Pittsburgh Post Gazette) When a physician or hospital screws up, sometimes all a patient wants is an apology.
But they often don’t get one, because the apology could be construed as an admission of negligence — and could become fodder for a future malpractice lawsuit. [Read more...]
Penn Health System to stop hiring smokers
February 21, 2013 By Leave a Comment
(Philly.com) The University of Pennsylvania Health System will no longer hire smokers and other tobacco users, starting in July.
The system, which includes the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, said the policy would improve the health of its workforce and reduce the cost of health-care benefits. [Read more...]
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