***Originally posted October 2009*** Women have made great strides in the last 50 years towards occupational equality. They are involved in every sector of the economy, from construction to healthcare professions. Women are no longer perceived as intellectually inferior, and many have the same opportunities as men for advancement and elite [...]
Let us take a look at the so called golden years. In the later stages of life seniors are at greater risk for multiple medical conditions and complications from them. Care becomes more complex, especially if mental disorders accompany the physical condition. With the baby boomer cohort set to strain the [...]
How many readers are old enough to remember their school nurse? Is the school nurse a relic of the past? Let’s reflect on some numbers. There are 56 million school children in the US. We hope that most of those students will spend most of their childhood and some of their [...]
It is a well known fact that the current paradigm of treating acute illnesses, diseases, and conditions has led to a system that is unsustainable both from a financial and manpower viewpoint. In fact some experts have even gone so far as to say it is a disease management system not [...]
See if you can guess which year this quote is from: "…hospitals are increasing in size, care is becoming more technical. Yet there is growing understanding that recovery could be better in the patient’s own home, a policy that is also cost effective in an era of soaring health care costs." [...]
Treatment of diseases has been the focus of the evaluation of the quality of health care in the past. Today there is a growing awareness of the importance of nurse care which has in turn led to the development of the measurement of nurse care. It understood that the contribution of [...]
For about 5 months Dickies scrubs have been unable to purchase from online stores because of a change with Dickies headquarters. Well we're happy to say we've been given some great news that Dickies scrubs will be shipping again! The selection is slowly rolling out to the original fantastic Dickies line [...]
MyNursingUniforms is currently running a contest where you could win a $25 gift certificate for anything in our store. How do you enter? It's easy! Just upload a picture to our Facebook Page wearing your scrubs, include the letters MNU somewhere in the pic, and we'll enter you into the draw! [...]
Do health care organizations see safety as a goal or simply as a result of non negligent care? The IOM noted 10 years ago that the lack of interprofessional cooperation/collaboration was a hindrance to a culture of safety. In the 2003 report A Bridge to Quality it stated that health care [...]
To what extent when errors occur do nurses blame themselves and not the systems they work with? Over a decade ago a patient was administered fatal dose of chemotherapy. The State Department of Patient Health (Massachusetts) and the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations found the attending nurses were [...]
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