Whistle-blowing incidents can significantly affect the long-term emotional well-being of the nurses involved, according to a National Nursing News report.
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A tool to identify violent patients in medical and surgical wards was introduced in the Nov. 2011 issue of the Journal of Advanced Nursing.
A North Dakota lawmaker says the state should run its own health insurance exchange instead of letting the federal government step in, according to a Bloomsberg Businessweek report.
Kim Woodruff, VP of corporate finance and compliance for Pinnacle III, an operator, manager and developer of ambulatory surgery centers, addresses five questions pertaining to the topic of ambulatory surgery centers and their use of social media.
The Tennessee Academy of Ophthalmology has launched a pre-emptive attack on possible legislation that would allow optometrists to do surgical procedures, including some using lasers, according to a report by The Tennessean.
The FDA said that shortages of cytarabine, a cancer drug, has been resolved, but other critical drug shortages still remain, according to a Fox Business report.
Researchers at Purdue University and the National Institute of Standards and Technology created a small device that converts continuous laser light into numerous ultrashort pulses, said a university news release.
The robotic surgery equipment manufacturing industry's revenue is expected to increase at an average annual rate of 14.9 percent for the next five years, reaching $4.2 billion by 2016, according to an IBISWorld report and news release.
Jan Davidson, RN, MSN, is the AORN perioperative education specialist focusing on ambulatory surgery centers. Here she shares 10 ideas for quality improvement studies in a surgery center.
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University say that humans' larger, more porous vertebrae in a thinner bone shell leave them more susceptible to bone fractures as they age, a university news release said.