December 10, 2015
(Pro Publica) – Under the federal law known as HIPAA, it’s illegal for health care providers to share patients’ treatment information without their permission. The Office for Civil Rights, the arm of the Department of Health and Human Services responsible … Read More
December 8, 2015
(Washington Post) – Although allergic reactions can be life-threatening, Bowen never worried that her patient would die — because he was not alive. He was one of a growing number of high-tech, lifelike manikins that the George Washington University School … Read More
December 2, 2015
(NPR) – Since the conflict in Syria began in 2011, nearly 700 medical workers have been killed and more than 300 facilities have been hit with missile strikes and bombs, according to the advocacy group Physicians for Human Rights. In … Read More
November 18, 2015
(Reuters) -Many U.S. nurses are satisfied with their pay but a lot of them would choose a different job or career path if they could, a new survey suggests. Overall, nurses typically earn more – $95,000 to $170,000 – with … Read More
November 12, 2015
(BBC) – A Scottish nurse who was readmitted to hospital after suffering complications arising from the Ebola infection has made a “full recovery”, doctors say. Pauline Cafferkey initially contracted Ebola while working at a treatment centre in Sierra Leone last … Read More
November 11, 2015
Public Health Nursing (vol. 32, no. 6, 2015) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “The Impact of Nurses of Neglected Tropical Disease Management” by Jane Blood-Siegfried, et al. “Should Home-Based Contraceptive Dispensing Become a Routine Part of Public Health Nurse … Read More
November 10, 2015
(The New Yorker) – The seeming intractability of this problem is highly unusual. In a relatively free society and economy, the tendency with any labor-supply shortage, in the face of steady or increasing demand, is that higher wages and other … Read More
November 4, 2015
Nursing Ethics (vol. 22, no. 7, 2015) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Sustaining Hope as a Moral Competency in the Context of Aggressive Care” by Elizabeth Peter, Shan Mohammed, and Anne Simmonds “The Significance of Small Things for … Read More
October 20, 2015
(Nurse[dot]com) – “The kinds of quandaries nurses face are broad and far reaching,” said Cynda Rushton, PhD, RN, FAAN, a professor of nursing and pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University and the Anne and George L. Bunting professor of Clinical Ethics … Read More
October 14, 2015
BMC Medical Ethics (vol. 16, September 2015) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Assessing the Detection, Reporting and Investigation of Adverse Events in Clinical Trial Protocols Implemented in Cameroon: A Documentary Review of Clinical Trial Protocols” by A. Ebile, et … Read More
October 9, 2015
(Washington Post) – A year ago, when the World Health Organization sent a team to Kenema, a part of Sierra Leone where the outbreak first hit, patients reported a whole range of “post-Ebola syndrome” symptoms. “Apart from visual problems which affect … Read More
September 30, 2015
(NPR) – Brown is the author of The Shift, which follows four patients during the course of a 12-hour shift in a hospital cancer ward. A former oncology nurse, Brown now provides patients with in-home, end-of-life care. Talking — and … Read More
September 25, 2015
(Reuters) – Medical student Ludwika Wodyk fumbles her way slowly down the stairs, her movements encumbered by heavy strapping around her limbs and body, her vision distorted by special goggles. She is one of a group of medical students in … Read More
September 22, 2015
(UPI) – Most people will experience at least one incorrect medical diagnosis in their lifetime, resulting in negative health outcomes, psychological distress and financial cost, according to a new government report. Researchers at the Institute of Medicine, part of the … Read More
September 17, 2015
(Nursing Times) – End of life experts have reinforced the importance of values-based recruitment for student nurses to ensure they deliver care in a compassionate way, but claimed this quality can later be “destroyed” in the workplace. As part of … Read More
September 11, 2015
Nursing Ethics (vol. 22, no. 5, 2015) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Information-sharing Ethical Dilemmas and Decision-making for Public Health Nurses in Japan” by Chisato Suzuki, et al. “Some Ethical Conflicts in Emergency Care” by Maria F. Jiménez-Herrera and … Read More
September 10, 2015
Nursing Ethics (vol. 22, no. 6, 2015) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “The Future of Ethics in Care: Some Reflections” by Ann Gallagher “Ethical Challenges in Older Patients Who Resist Help” by Kari Brodtkorb, et al. “Contextual Influences on Nurses’ … Read More
September 1, 2015
(Eurekalert) – Clinicians at Boston Medical Center (BMC) showed that expanding the number of sites offering office-based opioid treatment with buprenorphine (OBOT B) utilizing addiction nurse care managers, trainings and technical support resulted in more physicians becoming waivered to prescribe … Read More
August 28, 2015
(The New York Times) – His wife and children were talking about making his status “do not resuscitate/do not intubate,” but they hadn’t decided, and they were waiting for a son who lived far away to weigh in. And it … Read More
August 26, 2015
(Vice News) – The era of the independent doc is over, Caplan says. In order to navigate increasing regulations and the burgeoning cost of practice, the majority of physicians in this country are now under contract with multispecialty medical groups … Read More
August 25, 2015
(The Conversation) – If you are writing up a report or making a hamburger for dinner, the costs of mistakes are inconvenient. Imagine if you are a doctor working on an infant in a NICU? Suddenly, the costs of simple … Read More
August 17, 2015
(Quartz) – The first moments of life can be filled with heightened emotions, confusing paperwork, and plentiful bodily fluids. Life’s final moments are often similar. And just as the past few decades have seen a growing number of doulas (the … Read More
August 11, 2015
(The Telegraph) – In 62 years as a nurse, Mary Hazard has seen the NHS transform from a four-year-old service to a colossal institution. The matrons have been replaced by supervisors and the hours spent learning how to care have … Read More
August 4, 2015
(Nursing Times) – Ms Pharaoh, who had written books on caring for older patients, died on 21 July at the Lifecircle clinic in Basal with her partner of 25 years by her side. Her decision to end her life was … Read More
July 28, 2015
(Nature) – A cadre of researchers is working to make sense of the discrepancies. They are finding a variety of factors that can influence a checklist’s success or failure, ranging from the attitudes of staff to the ways that administrators … Read More
