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The most interesting thing about the leadership ladder for access employees at Childrens Healthcare of Atlanta is that the frontline employee position is located at the top.
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Although an increasingly uncommon scenario, pediatric patients continue to suffer fatal consequences of poisonings in the United States each year. Individuals providing care for the pediatric population continue in their efforts not only to find ways to treat exposed children, but also to avoid exposures from occurring at all. The goal of reducing morbidity and mortality from poisonings in ever-changing environments, both in the home and at the hospital, remains a challenge to all caregivers.
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A just-issued nationwide survey shows that newer reproductive health options such as the contraceptive patch, the contraceptive vaginal ring, and hysteroscopic sterilization are poorly covered by insurance companies when compared to more traditional methods such as the birth control pill.
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Rewind to September 1998. Gynétics of Somerville, NJ, introduces the Preven Emergency Contraceptive Kit, the first product for emergency contraception (EC) approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Now fast-forward six years to the present. The drugs new owner, Barr Pharmaceuticals of Pomona, NY, announces that it will no longer manufacture the product.
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Is providing emergency contraception (EC) a problem for clinicians in your facility? Since January 2004, eight nurses within the Alabama Department of Public Health system have retired or resigned with letters of resignation that listed dispensing EC as at least one of their reasons for leaving.
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When it comes to using combined oral contraceptives (OCs), clinicians and patients look to drug package labeling for the most current information on how the Pill may be safely and effectively used.