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New Orleans VNA Finds Alternative Ways to Deliver Care
Not even the worst natural disaster in United States history could stop nurses from the Visiting Nurses Association of Greater New Orleans from providing health care. When patients failed to return home after Hurricane Katrina, the professional caregivers changed the 94-year-old agency’s direction. |
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Leapfrog Launches Never Event Initiative
In its quest to improve health care safety and quality, The Leapfrog Group has asked hospitals to commit to a new never events policy, which includes not charging for care related to the error. |
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More than Science to This Specialty
Long before anyone thought of forensic nursing as a niche, Virginia A. Lynch,
MSN, RN, was busy ensuring it would have a place in the history books. |
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Spotlight on Nurse Consumer Advocates
Spending your days listening to complaints might dampen some people’s
spirits, but nurse patient relations managers and consumer advocates thrive on
the opportunity to turn difficult situations into positives for patients and
their facilities. |
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Nightingale Metrics Improve Care and Satisfaction
Desiring to drill down and measure unit-specific outcomes of significance to
nurses, patients and families, Children’s Hospital Boston initiated the
Nightingale Metric Program, a quality improvement initiative aimed at enhancing
patient care. |
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