Nursing: Patient Management
02/19/2010
European Patients’ Forum Launches New Website
The European Patients Forum (EPF) redesigned its website as a vital communication tool for its members and for the health community as a whole. This decision resulted in an …
01/26/2010
Patient records follow the patient at CHU-Bordeaux
Building on top of its imaging network, the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Bordeaux today features a shared medical record that follows a patient through the entire care path …
01/06/2010
Too much of the hard stuff: what alcohol costs the NHS
Treating alcohol-related conditions cost the NHS approximately £2.7 billion in 2006/07, almost double the 2001 cost. This new NHS Confederation briefing, produced with the Royal …
11/19/2009
Patient monitoring as part of the HIS
This October GE Healthcare launched its new Carescape Monitor B 850 at the 22nd Congress of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM). Resulting from the expertise …
11/16/2009
ID wristbands and bracelets
Throughout the world, every day, thousands of hospital patients are victims of identification breakdowns and errors that resulted or could have resulted in far greater health …
10/22/2009
The role of nutrition in the elderly
At the European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN) congress in Vienna, experts highlighted the important relationship between nutrition and functionality in the …
09/01/2009
Nurse migrations
Training healthcare personnel is not cheap; losing these human resources to other countries can prove even more costly. Where and why are nurses on the move? …
09/01/2009
Childbirth injury statistics
In 2006, 4.3 million children were born in US hospitals; of these, 158,000 mothers and infants (3.5%) sustained injuries that could have been avoided. For comparison purposes, …
08/04/2009
Nurses call for drastic action on binge drinking
Responding to the publication of the Public Accounts Committee report, Reducing Alcohol Harm: health services in England for alcohol misuse, Dr Peter Carter, Chief Executive of …
07/09/2009
"Patientenschutz durch Hygiene" präsentiert neue Aufklärungsfilme
Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Krankenhaushygiene (DGKH) hat in Kooperation mit dem Universitätsklinikum Essen und dem Berufsverband der Deutschen Chirurgen (BDC) drei neue …
07/01/2009
Qualified wound treatment starts with the identification of risks
The content of training courses on wound care and risk assessment would have one believe that chronic wounds are merely a marginal problem of medical care. The opposite is the …
07/01/2009
Accidents? We can all make mistakes!
Paramedics and other first-aid workers are often confronted with severe bleeding that can be arrested relatively easily. However, inappropriate approaches are frequent, and …
07/01/2009
Changing approaches to wound management
In recent years wound management has been primarily nurse-led, and not benefited from a multi-disciplinary approach. This must change, said Madeleine Flanagan, Principal Lecturer …
07/01/2009
RUT
A system of national quality registers, established in recent decades in Swedens health and medical services, now numbers 64 registers. Along with three competence centres, …
07/01/2009
Hard-to-heal wounds
In Hard-to-heal wounds: a holistic approach a paper produced by the European Wound Management Association (EWMA), the authors analyse the calculation of treatment costs, based …
07/01/2009
The 11th EAPC Congress
Faced with death, what are the wishes of terminally ill patients? Does a request for euthanasia disappear with good palliative care? How invasive should medicine be at this final …
07/01/2009
Elderly care: the future
robuLAB10, a service robot designed to assist the elderly in their own homes, went on show this spring at Robobusiness 2009, in Boston, Mass. Produced by the French firm Robosoft …
07/01/2009
Leading UK hospital orders 50 NCR MediKiosks
The technology firm NCR Corporation, which specialises in automated teller machines, self-checkouts and other self- and assisted-service solutions, announced in April that Kings …
06/29/2009
ICN Elects New President
Rosemary Bryant, outstanding nursing leader nationally and internationally, has been elected as the 26th President of the International Council of Nurses (ICN). …
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