SILVER SPRING, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) is pleased to name Karen Drenkard, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, CPHQ as the new Director of its acclaimed Magnet Recognition Program®.
Dr. Drenkard most recently served as the Senior Vice President, Nursing/Chief Nursing Executive at Inova Health Systems, in Falls Church, Virginia. For the past eight years, she has been responsible for nursing practice, education, research, strategy, and operations across one of Washington, DC’s largest healthcare systems. With more than 3,900 nurses and multiple service sites, Dr. Drenkard had oversight of the nursing leadership team and for implementing the vision for nursing services throughout the system.
During her tenure at Inova, she led two hospitals to successful Magnet designation and served as a champion of the program. She has published and presented extensively on the Magnet Recognition Program. In addition, Dr ..... Full Story
| A new scorecard system that examines state child health performance across America, reveals wide disparities among states, according to a report released today, Wednesday 28th May.
The report from The Commonwealth Fund, concludes that millions more American children would be insured, have access to health care, and experience less delay in their development if all the states of the US did as well as the top performers: Iowa, Vermont, Maine, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire.
Using a new system that they called the state scorecard, the researchers behind the report ranked each state's performance in child healthcare according to 13 indicators arranged in five areas of performance: access, quality, costs, equity, and potential to lead long healthy lives.
They ranked each state within each of the 13 indicators, and averaged the indicator ranks to work out the ranking for each of the five areas of performance ..... Full Story
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| Media outlets recently reported the results of two studies that highlighted the increasing problem of health disparities. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services defines health disparities as population-specific differences in the presence of disease, health outcomes or access to health care. Now, a University of Missouri professor explains in his new book that improving media coverage of health disparities will influence public awareness and promote efforts to reduce racial and ethnic differences in health care.
"There is a growing need for media to address health disparities and communicate to individuals how to make smart health decisions," said Glen T. Cameron, co-author of the book and co-director and scientific advisor of the Health Communication Research Center at MU. "Healthy living programs and wellness classes offered at hospitals and schools reach a small audience, about 20 to 30 people at a time .....Full Story
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Nurses can automate the process of administering patient medication with the help of the first-of-its-kind wristband, which had clinical trial at the Halifax Health Medical Center, involving cancer patients.
The trial saw 95 per cent of the patients finding the device easy to use. They were better able to control the pain rather than relying on nurses to provide the pills.
Almost 84 per cent nurses said it saved them time.
During the programming process, the data on a patient's oral medication prescription dosage and frequency is entered.
Nurses carry an RFID-based personal identification card. In response to reading the card, the body of the Medication-on-Demand (MOD) device allows the nurse to remove an empty pill tray or insert a full one .....Full Story
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