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Oh baby! 16 nurses are pregnant at Arizona hospital
It's a baby boom at an Arizona hospital, where 16 nurses working at an intensive care unit are pregnant, due between October and January.
Hospital Errors and How to Protect Yourself
Americans are dying in hospitals from preventable medical mistakes. But, patients can minimize their risks by keeping a close eye on their care.
What Yelp can tell you about a hospital that official ratings can’t
If you've ever taken the time to give Yelp your two cents about a hospital, you'll be happy to know someone's listening and that they've deemed the information not only useful -- but unique.
7 tips for improving patient safety in hospitals
An AHRQ report shows hospital efforts to improve patient safety have resulted in about $19.8 billion in cost savings.
4 Tips for Transitioning from Hospital or Rehab to Home
I’ve recently been helping a friend who has been managing her mother’s transitions from a hospital to a rehab facility and then to another rehab facility that now wants to send her home before she, or her family, is ready. It reminded me of how tough family caregiving transitions can be. I’ve been through so many of them with my parents and my sister — some smooth, others unexpected and rocky. As a study in the American Journal of Nursing found, …
Your elderly parent is home from the hospital. What happens next?
Many families step up to give care, but the demands on them get little attention.
How hospitals are improving heart attack care, survival
In order to continue improving survival and prevention of heart damage, potential heart attack victims need to take action more quickly, heart experts said.
Hospitals provide much more than health care
Gundersen Health System and Mayo Clinic Health System provide quality medical care to patients.
How Hospitals Can Partner with, Engage Patients and Families to Improve Care
Use this comprehensive list of resources to develop and implement your patient engagement strategies.
How to Build a Successful Acute/Post-Acute Care Continuum
Hospitals are forming networks with post-acute care and continuing care partners to ensure quality across the continuum.
Do-It-Yourself Health: How the Maker Movement is Innovating Health Care
Nurses are natural problem solvers. That's why MakerNurse encourages nurses to continue devising their own solutions, then give them the tools to create them.
When a Hospital Stay Is Not a Stay
Some hospital stays are not admissions but are done to put the patient under observation, which affects Medicare reimbursement and coverage.
How Nurses Keep You Safe During Your Hospital Stay
From admission to discharge, your safety is priority
How Technology Can Close the Door on Hospital Readmissions
We’re guessing that you've been to a hospital at one time or another — whether to visit a loved on or get treated themselves. And we’re also guessing that you have no desire to go back to a hospital again.<br>Sadly, hospital readmissions are all too common, so common that hospitals are being penalized
Let's learn from our nurses and make medicine great again
Can good hospital design improve your health?
Hospitals, care centers and research facilities that make up the industry -- in the States and abroad -- have never looked better.
Do You Know Who Used Your Hospital Bed Before You?
5 Essential Tips To Prepare For Stressful Hospital Inspections
Scrubs Magazine is The Nurse's Guide to Good Living
13 Things That Only A Nurse Would Do
We asked our Funny Nurses family to fill in the blank after “You know you’re a NURSE when…” (above) and we got some pretty great responses!
Going into Hospital? How to Come Out Again Unscathed
In the past couple of weeks I have noticed several different articles on how to survive a stay in hospital for whatever reason. They all had good suggestions and advice, and so I thought I would try and put them together into a bullet point format so that you have an easy-to-access reference should you or close friend or family member have to go to hospital either for an unavoidable emergency or for a necessary procedure.
