-
The first national survey of women with heart disease has found that more than half of them are dissatisfied with their health care and face significant obstacles to recovery.
-
-
Following Congressional scrutiny of their business practices, hospital group purchasing organizations (GPOs) are moving to adopt new standards governing how they collect fees, contract with vendors, and manage potential conflicts of interest.
-
As controversies over fetal tissue research, cloning, and stem cells grab the headlines, other applications of genetic research are quietly making their way into clinical practice. But many health care providers arent ready for them.
-
A 50-year-old man with end-stage heart failure is referred to your medical center for evaluation to receive a heart transplant. He is in reasonably good health, considering his condition, but has only entered a smoking cessation program two months ago. His previous attempts to quit smoking all have been unsuccessful. Is this patient an appropriate candidate for organ transplantation?
-
-
They dare to care. So say the ads sponsored by Johnson & Johnson, which are part of a campaign to address the nursing shortage and attract young people to nursing.
-
The national nurse vacancy rate stands at approximately 10%, and its higher in New Jersey. But at Hackensack University Medical Center, there are actually units for which there is a waiting list of nurses looking for work.
-
Now you can reach over 250,000 qualified nurses with the RN Magazine subscriber list.
-
Paula Bradney, RN, director of recruitment staffing at Banner Health System in Mesa, AZ, has been to Europe, Canada, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. But those werent vacation trips. She was looking for nurses.