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October 2008 Edition
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$1.7M grant will help many hospitals prevent urinary tract infections | ANN ARBOR, Mich. — This week, the federal government will stop paying hospitals for the cost of treating preventable urinary tract infections that develop in hospitalized Medicare patients. Many private insurers are expected to follow suit soon, in an effort to improve patient safety by aiming directly at hospitals’ bottom lines.
But hospitals still struggle to prevent UTIs, most of which arise directly from the use of the urinary catheters that drain the bladders of many hospitalized patients. In fact, UTIs are the most common in-hospital infection that patients face, and can lead to serious and potentially deadly complications.
Now, a new $1.7 million, four-year grant from the National Institutes of Health will help Michigan hospitals tackle this problem head on .....Full Story
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With research becoming a vital part of the undergraduate experience at Penn, the Nursing school has devised a way to allow its student researchers to showcase their work through a research journal dedicated to them.
The Journal of Nursing Student Research is a publication that compiles the research of students and gives them a platform to receive recognition for their work.
Started last fall by the Organization of Student Nursing Research, JONSR is among the few journals in the United States dedicated to student research and is the only one with a complete student editorial board, said Nursing senior Komal Patel, editor-in-chief of JONSR and president of OSNR.
"Penn Nursing in its mission is research-centric, and so a lot of students get involved in research, either on their own or with a professor ..... Full Story
| Donna Reyes created one of her most valuable medical tools.
A registered nurse who works with expectant mothers, Reyes filled eight pages of a spiral notebook with handwritten questions in rudimentary Spanish so she could communicate with Spanish-speaking patients who had immigrated to Delaware.
¿Tiene dolor por las contracciones? Do you have pain due to contractions?
¿Tiene dolor? Do you have pain?
¿Dónde le duele? Where does it hurt?
"I would take it right in the room with me when I was talking to the patients," Reyes said of the notebook, which sits on her desk at Westside Family Healthcare. "I still have it here."
She rarely needs it now ..... Full Story
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| HARTFORD, Conn., Sep 30, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Physicians, care providers and other stakeholders in quality health care delivery from across Connecticut are urged to attend an important conference this fall to learn more about the impact poor health literacy and racial and ethnic disparities in health care can have on patients, treating physicians and other care providers.
Jointly presented in conjunction with National Health Literacy Month by the Greater Hartford Coalition (GHC) for Quality Healthcare and Aetna (AET:36.11, +0.86, +2.4%) , the "Health Forum on Health Literacy and Racial Disparities" will be held on Thursday, October 23, 2008, at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford.
An exceptional panel of speakers has been convened for this forum .....Full Story
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MADISON, Wis., Sep 30, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- A new model for improving the health of immigrants in the United States using media created by immigrants was announced today by New Routes to Community Health, a program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Benton Foundation.
Eight diverse immigrant-led collaborations across the United States each are receiving $225,000 over three years to create locally-focused media and outreach campaigns that speak directly to immigrants' health concerns at the community level.
In the eight communities, immigrant groups, media makers and prominent community institutions are working together to produce original content in English as well as in immigrants' first languages, including Amharic, Chinese, Creole, French, Lao, Somali, Spanish, Swahili and Vietnamese .....Full Story
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