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Information and Electronic Warfare Systems (IEWS), a business unit of BAE SYSTEMS North America in Nashua, NH, has realized millions of dollars in savings and improved employee health and safety through multifaceted programming that earned it a 2003 Corporate Health Achievement Award for an outstanding portfolio of programs and proactive interventions for patients with CTDs [cumulative trauma disorders] from the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM).
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New guide addresses staff education efforts; Promotion of events on patient education
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In a recent interview with Patient Education Management, Ceresa Ward, MS, RN, manager of the Center for Education and Development at University of Missouri Health Care, provided information about the lessons she has learned working in the field of patient education.
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Unlike chemotherapy, radiation, or biological therapy, most patients are familiar with surgery for it is a common form of treatment. Yet there are many issues about surgery to remove a malignant tumor that patients might not be aware of.
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Lake Region Healthcare Corp. in Fergus Falls, MN, put in place workgroups for each chapter on the JCAHO standards a year and a half before its survey to ensure that the medical center was in compliance. In addition, the chapter chairs decided to form a JCAHO Fun Committee to brainstorm fun and unique methods to educate staff.
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When applying for grant money, pay close attention to the application requirements and follow them precisely. If you dont they may not even look at your proposal.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention temporarily should suspend its smallpox vaccination programs and conduct an evaluation and reassessment of the effort before vaccine is offered to larger groups of health care workers, a special panel of the Institute of Medicine in Washington, DC, recommends.
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Since plague (Yersinia pestis) was introduced into the United States in the San Francisco Bay area in 1900, there have been a total of 941 confirmed human cases recorded through the year 2000.
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When a rare and deadly infection suddenly appears out of time and place, todays clinician cannot exclude the possibility of bioterrorism. A case of plague (Yersinia pestis) had not been seen in New York City in more than a century. In November 2002, there appeared not one case, but two.
