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Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a good skill for every parent to learn, says Jennifer Bay, RN, BSN, the CPR coordinator for Childrens Healthcare of Atlanta.
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Todays case management departments need access to information as quickly as possible, and that can be a challenge unless your hospitals information technology (IT) system is tailored to fit the needs of the department and someone knows how to retrieve the information thats needed, asserts Don Collins, owner of Clarity Report Development, a Paradise, CA, computer technology consulting firm.
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When Carol Reeder, RN, BSN, MSA, first goes into a hospital to consult on setting up a physician-aligned case management model, she encourages case managers to try to understand what physicians have to deal with in their daily practice.
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Before INTEGRIS Rural Health (IRH) implemented its physician-aligned model of case management, the process was piecemeal throughout the eight-hospital system.
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The Stanford (CA) University protocol application form includes a section that examines potential conflict of interest through seven questions.
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Infectious disease experts and their colleagues in government continue to struggle to determine just who should receive smallpox vaccine in approaching the bioterrorism threat.
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African tick bite fever is an emerging infectious disease affecting travelers to parts of Africa and possibly other areas of the world.
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The recent monkeypox outbreak in 6 midwestern states has been associated with exposure to sick pet prairie dogs that were infected through contact with imported Gambian giant rats and dormice at an Illinois animal facility.
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Even though malaria infections still kill more than a million people each year, the disease itself appears to occur uncommonly among travelers. In this surveillance summary, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provide a vivid reminder that malaria still is a real problem for many travelers.