| American Nephrology Nurses Association Announces Award Winners The American Nephrology Nurses Association (ANNA) distributed more than $90,000 in nursing excellence scholarships, grants and awards at its 39th National Symposium in Philadelphia, PA. The Outstanding Contribution to ANNA award was presented to Beth Ulrich, EdD, RN, FACHE, FAAN, senior vice president, Professional & Consulting Services, Gannett Healthcare Group, Pearland, TX, and editor, Nephrology Nursing Journal. medicalnewstoday.com |
Children's Hospital Of Illinois Presents Data On Dosing Device For Nurses That Reduces Potential Risk For Medication Errors By 88% Children's Hospital of Illinois at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center (Peoria, Ill.) presented the results of the Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's (IHI) 2008 Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care. medicalnewstoday.com |
NMC Response To CHRE Report Re Advance Nurse Practice, UK Following the publication of the Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence (CHRE) report on advanced practice, the NMC made the following statement. We still believe that the proliferation of nurses operating at an advanced level and the increasing number of titles used to describe these roles is confusing to the public. Our concerns about the public safeguarding implications have not changed. medicalnewstoday.com |
University Hospital Of South Manchester Improves Community-Based Antenatal Care Using Aruba's Virtual Branch Networking Solution Aruba Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:ARUN), a global leader in 802.11n wireless LANs and secure mobility solutions, announced that the University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust (UHSM) in the United Kingdom is using Aruba's Virtual Branch Networking (VBN) solution to increase the quality of antenatal services delivered to the local community... mnt.to |
Watsonville Hospital RNs Set One Day Strike October 26 To Protest Hospital Giant's Refusal To Fix Poor Staffing Registered nurses at Watsonville Community Hospital will hold a one-day strike Tuesday, October 26 to protest serious staffing problems at the former community hospital that is now part of one of the biggest for-profit hospital corporations in the nation... mnt.to |