New Concept: Drive-Thru Emergency

credit: tico24 As mentioned on a recent allnurses.com post, the Stanford Hospital & Clinics are trying out a new concept: a drive-thru emergency room (!) From mercurynews.com: “In what is believed to be the first training exercise in the country, a team of health care professionals at Stanford Hospital & Clinics turned the first floor [...]

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Should fathers be allowed in delivery rooms?

credit: Inferis Wow, what an age-old question, huh? A quick search on ebsco host shows me that this debate goes back at least to 1962, when volume 25, issue 4 of RN posed the question “Allow expectant fathers in delivery room?” Interesting enough, it’s only been as late as 2007 that countries such as Iran [...]

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Forum for overseas health workers

credit: Manky Maxblack This is a guest post brought to you by Stephen Mitchell of Med Work World. Stephen contacted me recently regarding a new forum he has created for both nurses and doctors which focuses on the ins and outs of working in different countries. Sounds like a great idea, be sure to check [...]

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Are nurses ‘perfectly able to do more’?

credit: striatic I wanted to make mention of an article from The Australian last week, titled Nurses perfectly able to do more. It’s an interesting article for several reasons; firstly because it makes reference to the ever growing problems facing public hospitals in Australia, and makes claim that the widely proposed solution to open more [...]

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Nurses turn to prostitution

credit: dtes.people Ok, so there’s a title I didn’t think I’d ever read! However, according to some credible news sources in Australia, it appears that stressed out nurses are quitting hospital work and turning to prostitution as a source of income. I have to say that regardless of claims that prostitution is safer than ever, [...]

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