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Career Snapshot: Personal Attendant & Home Care Aide With health care costs rising and the population aging, the need is growing for skilled personal at-home care.   |
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November 21, 2004
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Prognosis Positive The medical field is embarking on an astonishing hiring binge. |
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February 6, 2005
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Golden Years Approach for Boomers... and Healthcare An aging population ensures longevity for most healthcare careers, and employment potential in a wide range of healthcare fields should be virtually unlimited. Here is a sampling of some of the more popular choices. |
Nursing Management
January 2010
Janet Snapp |
Partnering with palliative care The goal of palliative care is to prevent and relieve suffering and to support the best possible quality of life for patients and their families, regardless of the stage of the disease or the need for other therapies. |
Job Journal
December 2, 2007
Julia Hollister |
No Quick Cure for Nursing Shortage Classroom congestion makes RN shortage resistant to a quick cure. |
Job Journal
September 11, 2005
Julia Hollister |
Long-Term Healthcare: Only Compassionate Need Apply Calm and compassionate caregivers needed for long-term careers. |
Job Journal
June 18, 2006
Julia Hollister |
Nursing Assistants Job prospects in the U.S. for nursing assistants are expected to be excellent due to increasing demand for long-term care from a retired population -- which is expected to double in the next 20 years. |
Managed Care
July 2000
Michael S. Victoroff, M.D. |
HMOs Best Stay Mum Regarding Hospice Care At a recent seminar on end-of-life care, someone asked me, "What can health plans do, to help increase the utilization of hospice services?" Managed care organizations face an ironic dilemma on this issue. |
American Journal of Nursing
September 2009
Judith K. Schwarz |
Stopping Eating and Drinking The author describes stopping eating and drinking, as well as other clinical practices associated with hastening dying. Should this practice be distinguished from suicide; and what are the ethical and legal implications for nurses. |
Job Journal
January 18, 2009 |
Career Snapshot: Registered Nurse Registered nurses have a wealth of career opportunities to choose from. |
American Journal of Nursing
January 2010 |
Life-Support Interventions at the End of Life: Unintended Consequences Nurses need to be knowledgeable life-support interventions at the end of life and able to communicate what they know about those consequences to patients, family members, and others on the health care team, leading to better decision making at this difficult time. |
Job Journal
June 24, 2007
Julia Hollister |
RNs Take Their Pick of Perks, Pay & Programs In short supply, RNs enjoy signing bonuses and generous perks. |
Job Journal
July 3, 2005
Julia Hollister |
Nursing: The Pulse of California Healthcare Desperate hospital recruiters up the ante with signing bonuses for RNs and LPNs. In fact, many hospitals, under pressure to lower costs, are using licensed vocational nurses (LVNs) in place of registered nurses wherever allowed. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
September 1, 2012
Robin Hertz |
The Endless Treadmill of End-of-Life Care Bending the cost curve back to valuing the cycle of life. |
Job Journal
May 2, 2010
Arianna Jordan |
Nursing Careers come in Many Settings In sorting out your options for a nursing career, start with where you'd like to work. |
Job Journal
August 3, 2008 |
Career Snapshot: Nurse Practitioner Nurse practitioners are essential to meet the growing need for high-level healthcare. |
Nursing Management
April 2012
Gloria Kersey-Matusiak |
Culturally competent care: Are we there yet? What exactly is culturally competent care, and how can you use it to lessen healthcare disparities among your patients? |
Job Journal
September 24, 2006
Rich Heintz |
Health Careers Present a Bright Prognosis Quick, affordable training can buy you job security in these healthcare careers. |
Managed Care
June 2001
John Carroll |
Speaking the Unspeakable: How Plans Can Deal With the Dying Physicians don't like to discuss end-of-life care. Neither do health plans, fearing it makes them look cold. A few plans are finding innovative ways to do it... |
Financial Planning
August 1, 2012
Deena Katz |
Final Decisions Before advising clients about estate planning issues, particularly end-of-life concerns, think about the advance directives commonly recommended to clients. |
Job Journal
June 19, 2005
Rich Heintz |
Hot Jobs Update Career fields that are expected to see a substantial amount of hiring activity. |
Job Journal
April 23, 2006
Julia Hollister |
Prospective Nursing Students Need Patience Demand for nurses is growing, but so are training-school waiting lists. There is hope, however. |
Nursing Management
September 2010
Richard Hader |
The evidence that isn't... Interpreting research When patients seek a healthcare practitioner for services, they believe that the delivered care is based on proven science. But reality is far from patient perception. In fact, most care is still based on anecdote, not evidence. |
Nursing
July 2009
Penny S. Brooke |
Legally speaking...When can you say NO? As a nurse, accepting responsibilities that are beyond the scope of your license or skill level can have serious consequences for you, your patients, and your nursing career. |
Nursing Management
October 2011
Edna Cadmus |
Your role in redesigning healthcare We need to rethink how we provide care and to understand the interconnectedness and the structure of healthcare by looking at it as a whole vs. the sum of its parts. As leaders we need to view the evidence as we rethink healthcare together. |
American Family Physician
July 1, 2000
Michael D. Fetters |
Curbside Consultation Case Scenario: A Daughter Who Won't Let Her Mother Go |
IDB America
February 2004
Shirley Emerick Dutra |
Staffing the front lines of health care An innovative program trains thousands of nurses' aides in a bid to end a critical shortage of clinical workers |
Nursing Management
December 2011
Brenda Kulhanek |
EMR development...Always be prepared Implementing an electronic medical record system offers countless benefits: major healthcare savings, reduced medical errors, improved quality of healthcare, and improved health. |
American Journal of Nursing
March 2011
O'Lynn & Krautscheid |
Original Research: 'How Should I Touch You?': A Qualitative Study of Attitudes on Intimate Touch in Nursing Care This study sought to elicit the attitudes of laypersons on intimate touch provided by nurses in general and male nurses in particular. |
Job Journal
November 5, 2006
Rich Heintz |
Nurses Attract Generous Job Offers `Stat' The exploding demand for RNs is creating unprecedented opportunities. |
American Journal of Nursing
June 2011
Lisa M. Black |
Original Research: Tragedy into Policy: A Quantitative Study of Nurses' Attitudes Toward Patient Advocacy Activities In 2007 and 2008, 115 patients were found to be either certainly or presumptively infected with the hepatitis C virus through the reuse of contaminated medication vials at two southern Nevada endoscopy clinics. |
Job Journal
November 9, 2003
Lacy Salter |
The Priceless Rewards of Nonprofit Work That's the real benefit of entering the world of nonprofit organizations. |
The Motley Fool
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David Braze |
Who Pays for Long-Term Care? In the second of a six-part series, this installment covers what Medicare and Medicaid cover (and don't cover) for long-term care. |
