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By: John Commins, for HealthLeaders Media, October 13, 2010
Members of The Institute of Medicine are elected through a process that recognizes people who have advanced the medical sciences, healthcare, and public health. At least one-quarter of its members must come from outside the health professions, from such fields as law, engineering, and the humanities and the natural, social, and behavioral sciences.
By: John Commins, for HealthLeaders Media, October 13, 2010
Federal inspectors identified $167,064 in "unallowable and unsupported costs" at the California Transplant Donor Network, including nearly $100,000 that was not adequate documented, and $19,000 that was spent on a CEO's retirement party.
By: Roxanna Guilford-Blake for HealthLeaders Media, October 13, 2010
Nutritional status and depression may have an impact on both disease progression and physiological adaptation to disease and physicians should consider them like other conventional risk factors in planning discharge and follow-up, study author says.
By: Joe Cantlupe, for HealthLeaders Media, October 13, 2010
Exorbitant delays don't make sense for the patient or the hospital, and there are ways, some simple and some more challenging, to turn things around.
By: HCPro's Advisor to the ANCC Magnet Recognition ProgramŽ, October 12, 2010
The value of nursing education is often measured quantitatively, but rarely is it measured qualitatively. It's not the number of people in the classroom that should be measured, but the results, says Gen Guanci, MEd, RN-BC, CCRN. Since changing how her nursing education department is evaluated, Guanci has seen positions added and decreased number of medical errors.
By: October 7, 2010
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By: Gienna Shaw, for HealthLeaders Media, October 12, 2010
Evidence suggests that despite their high costs—easily running to seven figures a year—remote intensive care unit monitoring systems could, in fact, be an antidote for the high cost of providing care in intensive care units and other healthcare settings.
By: Rebecca Hendren, for HealthLeaders Media, October 12, 2010
An Institute of Medicine report emphasizes the importance of nurse education in healthcare reform and suggests a timeline. The report calls for 80% of RNs to have BSNs by 2020 and for the number of nurses with doctorate degrees to have doubled in the same timeframe. Here is what's in store for bridging the gap between education and practice.
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