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What matters to your nurses? The ability to schedule their jobs around their lives, says a survey of 811 RNs.
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There are plenty of human resources executives who know in their hearts that money isnt what drives nurses to work. What has more impact than the actual wage rate is the ability for nurses to progress over time up a wage scale.
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In a time of shortage, there often doesnt seem to be any choice but to use agency nurses. But cutting the use of premium labor became a stated goal at Sinai Hospital, a 398-bed hospital in Baltimore.
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Each year, Covenant Health System in Knoxville, TN, has a Case Management University for nurses in the system who are interested in becoming case managers.
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Hospital Case Managements annual salary survey was mailed to readers along with the April 2003 issue. Questionnaires, response forms, and postage-paid envelopes were inserted into that newsletter.
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Is it true that we can violate the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) by not encouraging a patient to stay for treatment when he wants to leave?
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With patient safety a heightened imperative from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, and facing its own duplicate medical record problem, Truman Medical Center in Kansas City, MO, launched an initiative aimed at ensuring proper patient identification.
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A patient daily goals checkoff form used twice daily during rounds has helped the surgical intensive care unit (SICU) team at Hartford (CT) Hospital achieve a 25% drop in its mortality rate, while cutting lengths of stay and ventilator days.
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The leadership standards of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) require that hospitals provide one level of care for all patients.