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Healthcare Industry News Features |
AMN Healthcare, the nation's largest provider of high-quality healthcare professionals,
offers the latest on feature stories and profiles impacting
industry progress, and articles relevant to healthcare leaders, written
by award-winning journalists. For the latest feature stories and profiles
impacting the healthcare industry, turn to AMN Healthcare.
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RN-to-Patient Hospital Staffing Ratios Update
Following years of rallies, protests, public hearings and letter writing campaigns by the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC), AB 394, the first RN-to-patient hospital staffing ratios law, became effective January 1, 2004 in all California acute-care, acute psychiatric and specialty hospitals. The law requires that no RN can be assigned responsibility for more patients than the specific ratio at any time, under any circumstances, based on patient acuity and scope of practice laws.
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States Consider Expanding Role of Advanced Practice Nurses
Advanced practice nurses across the United States may gain more independence in their practice, as bills make their way through legislatures in more than 20 states this year.
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Hospitals Turn Green with Bottom Line Envy
The old adage "it ain't easy being green," is no longer applicable to hospitals who are finding that reducing medical waste and adopting ecologically safer practices may actually be saving them money.
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Hospitals Borrowing Efficiency-Improvement Techniques from Industry
Hospitals aiming to work smarter and more efficiently are turning to quality assessment and improvement techniques pioneered in industry, deploying Six Sigma and Lean tools to change cultures and to improve results.
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Receiving Healthcare is a Matter of Luck in Oregon
The Oregon Department of Health Services found an innovative way to distribute healthcare to a portion of their low-income residents by offering insurance in a lottery. The prize for winning is state funded health insurance in the state's Standard health program, which was initially created for those who do not qualify for Medicaid but are unable to afford private insurance.
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Board Game Teaches Cooperation to Hospital Staff
A board game has been developed that hospitals across the country – as well as internationally – are using to provide training and insight for their staffs. Friday Night at the ER simulates a 24-hour day at a hospital and demonstrates the effects that short-term decision making and the actions of departments that operate independently from others can have on the hospital as a whole.
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Teen Pre-Med Club Founder Awarded Scholarship
The Health Care Communicators of San Diego (HCC) announced Alice Chung, a hospital volunteer and senior at Mira Mesa High School, as the winner of the 2007 Scholarship Essay. Chung received a $1,500 scholarship, courtesy of event sponsor AMN Healthcare, presented by Carol Burke, AMN’s Senior Director of Marketing and Communication, at the HCC Finest Awards Show gala, February 7, at the Del Mar Fairgrounds Turf Club.
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Spotlight on Risk Managers
On a quest to limit perils found in the health-care setting—for patients, staff and facilities—risk managers provide a wide variety of services that help their institutions identify and mitigate risk.
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