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U. Delaware nursing professor program to begin
Tuesday, March 01, 2011
A doctorate nursing program set to begin this fall at the University of Delaware is expected to help ease the nursing shortage by training more people to teach nursing.
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New Program Helps Address Delaware Nursing Shortage
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Delaware is facing a nursing shortage. The government estimates the state needs between 1,300 and 3,000 additional nurses. A new program at Dover High School may help close that gap.
The school has started a nursing program. After completing the course, students can take the state test to become a nursing assistant. With nurses in high demand. the program will benefit not only students, but the community as well, the school said.
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Delaware Tech Dedicates New Nursing Lab
Monday, May 17, 2010
Delaware Technical & Community College’s Terry Campus has dedicated its nursing laboratory in honor of Bayhealth Medical Center, Dover, Del.
The Bayhealth Medical Center Nursing Science Laboratory will serve as a training ground for the next generation of Delaware’s nurses.
“Bayhealth has been here for us since we started our nursing program during the 1970s,” said Delaware Tech Nursing Chair JoAnn Baker, RN, MSN. “Bayhealth is not only supporting Delaware Tech and its nursing students but is also supporting the entire community by ensuring nursing professionals are available to serve us for another generation.”
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Delaware Valley Hospital Honors Nurses for Academic Achievements
Friday, April 30, 2010
As part of their annual National Nurses’ Week celebration, May 6 - 12, Delaware Valley Hospital recognizes two nurses who committed themselves to go beyond their RN training and achieved their BSN. Barbara MacDonald and Maja Kryzton, both 5-year employees, graduated from the SUNY Delhi RN-BSN program in January of this year, after two years of study.
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Extern program gives student nurses real-life experiences
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Sixteen nursing students from college and university nursing programs across the East Coast, as well as from the Beebe School of Nursing, recently completed an eight-week nurse extern program at Beebe Medical Center.
The program gives nursing students the opportunity to have real-life experience in several different hospital areas including the Emergency Department, outpatient surgery and medical surgical units, Critical Care Unit, Cardiovascular Step-down Unit and Tunnell Cancer Center.
posted in: Delaware, news
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States get help digitizing med records
Friday, August 21, 2009
Vice President Joe Biden announced Thursday that about $1.2 billion in federal stimulus funding will be used to help states and health care institutions adopt electronic medical record keeping.
Delaware, viewed nationally as a leader in the move to digitized health records, will be eligible for millions of dollars through grants under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The exact amount has yet to be set.
Biden made the health-records announcement at a Chicago hospital during an appearance with Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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Medicare proposal would hit hospitals
Thursday, August 13, 2009
The U.S. Senate has drafted a policy to withhold 20 percent of a hospital’s reimbursement for several still-unspecified procedures when Medicare patients are readmitted within 30 days for a condition related to their initial hospitalization.
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The Senate Finance Committee’s policy is seen as a major step in overhauling Medicare, the federal health program that insures nearly 45 million people who are over 65 or disabled.
The policy aims to reduce readmissions for such things as infections a patient acquired while hospitalized or a patient being discharged without proper medical instructions. Such readmissions amount to a major expense for Medicare.
posted in: Delaware, news
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Wilmington Nurses Appear in New Ad Calling for Health Care Reform
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Two area nurses are appearing with nurses from around the country in a new television ad urging Congress to support health care reform that will make health care more affordable and accessible to all Americans. Curtis Cornish and Clara Hollis, both of Wilmington, are psychiatric nurses at the Delaware Psychiatric Center. The ad was launched by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and began airing Sunday. It features the nurses looking directly into the camera and talking about their firsthand experiences with patients who could not afford health care or were forced to battle with their insurance companies to cover critical treatments.
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Hospital comparison site updated
Monday, July 13, 2009
In the same way drivers can compare cars using various Web sites, patients now have a new tool to guide them in picking which hospital they’re best off at.
The latest unveiling in the federal government’s Hospital Compare Web site—www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov—shows updated 30-day death rates for people who show up with either a heart attack, heart failure or pneumonia. The Web site also is debuting new data on the 30-day readmission rates for patients originally admitted to hospitals for either of the three conditions.
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Christiana Care Health System
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Christiana Care Health System in Delaware views patient engagement as a core strategy to improve patient outcomes and hospital performance. Christiana Care began using an interactive software system in 2006 as a principal means for engaging patients in their care process. From the outset, the goal in utilizing this technology has been to foster a more patient-centered care experience. The result for Christiana Care has been improvements in quality, safety and the service experience for its patients as well as improvements in nurse workflow efficiency.
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