To maintain the safety of nursing home residents statewide, Gov. Brad Henry of Oklahoma signed into law June 9 an act that will keep sex offenders from standard LTC facilities. Separate nursing homes outside of the prison system, with specially trained staff, and extra surveillance and security measures will be created to house them, instead. ...

It can be the irate, highly credentialed surgeon who throws an instrument tray at a questioning nurse; it can be the staff nurse who bullies a new grad; or it could be the lab tech who berates a member of the housekeeping staff. These types of disruptive and intimidating behaviors affect everyone, at all levels of a healthcare organization, and ...

On the floor of a New York ED waiting room, a 49-year-old woman convulsed for 30 minutes. When she stopped, she was dead. No one did anything but nudge her after she stilled and call for help a few minutes later. In fact, no one - not a single staff member - had done anything in the 24 hours since she had been involuntarily checked into the ...

A task force of representatives from medical groups, universities, the military and government agencies is basically recommending who lives and who dies after a major disaster like pandemic flu or terrorist attack. In essence, the group recommends the very elderly, severely injured trauma patients, severely burned older patients and people with ...

Andrea Kerr is a frequent contributor to Advance. With the help of Michael Paras, she will provide readers with daily updates on Lutheran HealthCare's medical mission work in Tela, Honduras. Dispatch from Michael Paras - Wednesday April 23, 2008 By Wednesday the medical team on the ground in Honduras had already seen and treated 230 patients ...

Andrea Kerr is a frequent contributor to Advance. With the help of Michael Paras, she will provide readers with daily updates on Lutheran HealthCare's medical mission work in Tela, Honduras. Dispatch from Michael Paras -  April 22, 2008 Jean Hemmans, R.N., and her husband, Ruperto, started the New York Honduran Committee along with a small ...

Andrea Kerr is a frequent contributor to Advance. With the help of Michael Paras, she will provide readers with daily updates on Lutheran HealthCare's medical mission work in Tela, Honduras. Dispatch from Michael Paras -  Monday April 21, 2008 A critical member of the Lutheran HealthCare team in Honduras is otolaryngologist Ramez Habib, ...

Written by Janice L Hinkle, PhD, RN, CNRN,  a senior research fellow at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK, funded by the Medical Research Council. Janice is from St. Augustine, FL.  On March 29, 2008 Lee Woodruff gave the Agnes M. Marshall keynote address entitled ‘In an instant: Lee and Bob Woodruff's journey of recovery and ...

Andrea Kerr is a frequent contributor to Advance. With the help of Michael Paras, she will provide readers with daily updates on Lutheran HealthCare's medical mission work in Tela, Honduras. Dispatch from Michael Paras - Monday April 21, 2008 Mary Haeney, a registered nurse at Lutheran has accompanied the medical brigade to Honduras for three ...

Andrea Kerr is a frequent contributor to Advance. With the help of Michael Paras, she will provide readers with daily updates on Lutheran HealthCare's medical mission work in Tela, Honduras. Dispatch from Michael Paras - Sunday April 20th Lutheran's team of doctors and medical staff performed 162 examinations in Honduras the first day. Here ...