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- 3/26/2012
Hallway nursing a reality at BC hospital with installation of call bells
Recent installation of call bells for nursing assistance in a hallway at the Royal Inland Hospital is an acknowledgement that hallway medicine is becoming a permanent fixture, a nursing union representative said Monday. - 3/26/2012
Designing for innovation
Academic health centres can be built in a way that will facilitate the translation of new knowledge into improved patient care. In Montreal, that idea is taking shape on a grand scale - 3/26/2012
Learning from Rx mistakes
- 3/26/2012
Letter: Nurse practitioners highly trained for diagnosis, prescribing
Dianne Dyer, president, College and Association of Registered Nurses of Alberta, Edmonton and Lesley MacGregor, a nurse practitioner from Edmonton, respond to a letter in the Edmonton Journal saying to “Leave prescribing to physicians”. - 3/26/2012
Efficiency in action: Hospital in Chateauguay moves to wireless patient-worn monitoring
Staff members at CSSS Jardins-Roussillon, hôpital Anna-Laberge say they’re proud to work at what is still, after 24 years, the newest hospital to be built in Quebec. And being the first facility in the province to use a truly wireless patient monitoring system has added to those bragging rights. - 3/26/2012
U.S. research: Increased independence for NPs does not reduce physician wages
Increased “scope of practice” for advanced practice nurse practitioners is not associated with lower wages for primary care physicians. - 3/26/2012
Cutting the Accord
When a big government is run by people who don’t believe in big government, unexpected things can happen. So it is with Stephen Harper’s Conservatives. - 3/26/2012
A new magazine for a new era
- 3/26/2012
Loblaw purchasing Zellers' prescription files for $35 million
Arrangement includes prescription files from 95 Zellers pharmacies across the country.