Nursing: Patient Management

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07/07/2010

Doctors’ shifts and patient safety raises concern

The reduction in junior doctors’ hours to 48 hours a week with the introduction of the European Working Time Directive (EWTD) has increased the number of work shifts and …

06/25/2010

European Nursing Congress 2010: Older persons the future of care

In the coming decades, nurses face enormous challenges. A growing population of older people will rely on care. Our current healthcare system is ill prepared for this. Also, …

05/26/2010

Significant disparities in MS nursing across Europe

The first major survey of European Multiple Sclerosis (MS) nurses revealed that nearly one in three nurses (31%) reported that standards of MS care are not adequately maintained …

05/14/2010

Boldly tackling catering and hygiene issues

Although food for in-patients can be integral to healing, the standard of catering can be disappointingly low in some hospitals. In addition, sometimes even the help needed by …

04/15/2010

Secret to Healing chronic wounds might lie in tiny pieces of silent RNA

Scientists have determined that chronic wounds might have trouble healing because of the actions of a tiny piece of a molecular structure in cells known as RNA. The Ohio State …

04/08/2010

New tool to improve patient safety

Employers of the UK's 660,000 registered nurses and midwives are being given a new tool to support them in carrying out their responsibility of ensuring the health and wellbeing …

04/08/2010

White paper on social care system is welcome but leaves many grey areas

Welcoming the government's White Paper on social care reform, Dr Anna Dixon, acting chief executive of The King's Fund, said: 'The government has set out a bold and ambitious plan …

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

The Children's Island

By Heidi Heinhold …

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

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

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 King's …

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