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NSNA’s 59th Annual Convention
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
National Student Nurses’ Association
April 6-10, 2011
Salt Palace Convention Center
Salt Lake City , UT
posted in: Event, National, Employer News, Utah
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Training for nurses and instructors takes a giant step forward
Monday, November 08, 2010
U.’s nursing building targets faculty shortage
posted in: Education, Utah
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Associate Nursing Degree Now Available at Salt Lake City, Ogden & Logan Campuses of Stevens-Henager
Wednesday, March 03, 2010
In a major boost for nursing aspirants, Stevens-Henager College is offering its Associate of Science in Nursing degree through its Salt Lake City, Ogden and Logan campus.
Students who complete this ADN program are eligible to sit for the National Council of Licensing Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX). Once they pass this exam, they can apply for a license to practice as a Registered Nurse anywhere in the country.
posted in: news, Utah
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BYU nursing professor honored for life of service
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
PROVO — Lynn Callister has spent a lifetime listening.
She’s listened to women in Guatemala, Jordan, Finland and Russia as they talk about childbirth.
Women in Ecuador shared stories of giving birth in the slums, while Finnish women who have access to every modern convenience frequently chose an unmedicated route.
“All the rituals and behaviors that surround childbirth in different parts of the world are very interesting,” Callister said. “I think the commonality for me is that women are strong and amazing, and that they are able to accomplish more than they even thought possible.”
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Regence Foundation Awards Nearly $250,000 in Grants to Northwest Nonprofits
Wednesday, September 02, 2009
The Regence Foundation announced today
$246,500 in grants for four Northwest nonprofits: HealthMatters of Central
Oregon, WithinReach, Critical Access Hospital Network and Northwest
Organization of Nurse Executives. The grants all support nonprofit programs
with innovative plans to improve quality of care and increase access to care.
posted in: Idaho, news, Oregon, Utah, Washington
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Health exchange ‘open for business’
Thursday, August 27, 2009
There was a celebratory air in the Utah Capitol’s extravagant Gold Room on Wednesday as Gov. Gary Herbert declared the Utah Health Exchange “open for business.”
The state-run Web site will permit participating small businesses to offer employees a health care stipend, which workers can use to shop on the site and select the health insurance plans that best fits their lives.
Herbert called the site “a model” for private-sector health insurance solutions. But, he added, the state is “still far from finished with reform.”
posted in: news, Utah
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Health care reform: Influx of newly insured may overwhelm Utah docs
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Health care reform, if it succeeds, may result in thousands more Utahns getting health insurance.
But in a state already strapped for doctors, it doesn’t mean they will get to see a physician right away. A sudden influx of the newly insured, experts warn, could overwhelm a system already stretched too thin.
By one consumer health advocacy group’s estimate, an additional 195,000 state residents could be insured by 2013 if the America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 is signed into law. Six years later, that number could be as high as 313,000.
posted in: news, Utah
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Utah hospitals ratings may aid patient choices
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Rather than simply relying on advice from family and friends, Utahns can now examine overall patient satisfaction ratings for local hospitals before choosing where to spend their health-care dollars.
While Utah hospitals overall rated higher than the national average on seven of 10 reported measures, statistics provided by the 2009 Hospital Consumer Satisfaction Report show wide discrepancies among hospitals in how patients viewed their experiences with communication, cleanliness and other factors.
posted in: news, Utah
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Nearly 90 major medical mistakes logged at Utah hospitals in 2008
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
One full-term infant died. Four healthy patients passed away unexpectedly after surgery. Another patient committed suicide. And dozens more left hospitals sick not from their illness but from their stay: They fell down, were given the wrong drug, became infected from surgical equipment left inside their bodies.
There were at least 89 of these most serious medical errors last year in Utah hospitals and surgical centers, up 56 percent from the 57 logged in 2007, according to a Utah Department of Health report requested by The Salt Lake Tribune.
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A role in trauma care for advanced practice clinicians
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Advanced practice clinicians (APCs), a term used by the trauma team at LDS Hospital (LDSH) in Salt Lake City, Utah, to include physician assistants (PAs) and nurse practitioners (NPs), are increasingly being utilized to care for patients on trauma services.1-6 Traditionally, the extensive 24-hours-a day coverage needed to provide quality trauma care has been provided by surgical residents. In 2003, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education significantly reduced the number of hours that resident physicians are permitted to work in a week.7 This has forced many trauma programs to develop alternate traumacare delivery models. The quality of care provided by these alternate-care delivery models has been questioned.1 With the reduced availability of surgical residents, we hypothesized that APCs could safely provide trauma care that had traditionally been provided by those residents. This paper describes the APC trauma-care delivery model at a level I trauma hospital following the loss of surgical residents and compares patient outcomes from this new model with those in the National Trauma Data Bank (NTDB).
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