The following is a guest blog by Mike Bederka, editor of ADVANCE for Imaging & Radiation Oncology: How prepared are you for a disaster? With the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear plant crisis in Japan, it's a question you should be asking yourself. The journal Radiology has made available with open access ''Medical Response to a Major ...

In the military there is an aphorism that suggests that when you are up to your neck in alligators, it is hard to remember that your objective is to drain the swamp.  It's a way of saying that sometimes the day-to-day hassles keep us from realizing our long term goals.  Nowhere is that more obvious than in the case of an Indiana nurse ...

About one out of every seven people in nursing homes in the United States are less than 65 years old. That number has risen 22 percent in the last few years and accounts for about 15% of all nursing home residents.  The reasons for this vary, from poor management of diabetes and vascular disease, to ventilator care for neurologically ...

The end of each year brings reflection on the highs and lows. What have you accomplished? What could you improve on? As 2010 comes to a close, here's a look back at some of the most interesting things we've brought you this year: January - Getting Ready for MDS 3.0 February - We launched our Specialty Resource Centers March - An in-depth ...

I know that sometimes I must sound like a broken record, but an incident in a Vermont nursing facility underscores why it is so important for nursing personnel to actively manage patient interactions. In Bennington, Vermont an 84-year-old woman suffering from dementia walked into the room of a 58-year-old man. The man was heard yelling, and ...

 The recruitment period of the Phase 2 Advancing Excellence in America's Nursing Homes Campaign ended at midnight January 31, 2010. The Campaign signed up. 5,860 nursing homes, including 1,132 new participants and 4,728 re-enrollees (now charter members of the Campaign), are now members of the Phase 2 Campaign, reports Carol Benner, ScM. ...

Most people figure that work-related injuries are just part of the job for nurses. With all that lifting, turning, repositioning and transferring that nurses do, injuries abound. In fact, a report on the American Nurses Association Web site indicates that an estimated 12 percent of nurses leave the profession every year because of back injuries ...