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The authors of this study sought to characterize symptoms women experience in association with an acute myocardial infarction.
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They may not grab many headlines, but grievance policies and procedures are, nonetheless, a critical component of a thorough, effective quality improvement effort.
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This article will review the current literature about blast injuries. Explosions have the potential to cause multi-system injuries involving multiple patients simultaneously. The potential mechanisms of injury, early signs of these injuries, and the natural course of the problems caused by explosive blasts will be discussed.
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With passage of the Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003 (HR 1) in the last days of November 2003, many of the issues that home health administration managers will be related to this legislation. This article introduces a few of the key issues addressed by this new legislation.
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Nurses should be restricted from working more than 12 hours at time or more than 60 hours per week to prevent error-producing fatigue, an Institute of Medicine panel recommended in a comprehensive review of the nursing work environment.
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Left to die in nursing homes and hospitals, terminal patients and their families are largely underserved. Hospices, on the other hand, provide a variety of services that meet the needs of the terminally ill and their families. That, in a few words, is what a recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Experts claim that workplace violence rarely strikes without warning, but according to a new study on the issue, the majority of the work force does not recognize potential warning signs.
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In response to findings such as the ones outlined in the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses Inc. (AAOHN) survey and the overarching prevalence of workplace violence among the U.S. work force, AAOHN and the FBI offer the following guidance to help companies develop workplace prevention and education programs.
