The term "green" is thrown around a lot these days. Making the switch to more environmentally friendly practices and products is defining the growing age of sustainability, but all green technologies are not alike. One green technology that is becoming…
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Hospitals are exerting more effort to combat nurses’ compassion fatigue, which is a combination of secondary traumatic stress and burnout that leaves caregivers feeling less empathetic and even dreading encounters with certain patients, according to a Wall Street Journal report.…
Unionized nurses at New York City's Montefiore Medical Center have announced their intent to strike on Jan. 10 unless management and union representatives come to an agreement over staffing levels and salaries, according to a New York Times report.
Recent data from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing showed that enrollment in all types of professional registered nursing programs increased from 2010-2011, including a 3.9 percent increase in entry-level Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree programs.
Nearly 500 employees have been laid off as a result of two Hawaii Medical Center closures, according to a KITV report.
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Geisinger Health System, based in Danville, Pa., will no longer hire job applicants who use tobacco products, including cigarettes, cigars and chewing or smokeless tobacco, beginning Feb. 1.
The future of St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson, Md., is becoming increasingly more uncertain as hundreds of lawsuits and decreasing revenue are bogging down the hospital's operations, according to a Baltimore Sun report.
Boston-based Steward Health Care has abruptly left the Massachusetts Hospital Association without explanation, according to a Boston Globe report. Steward resigned via hand-delivered note to the MHA last Friday, effective immediately. The 10-hospital system said MHA’s lobbying efforts do not…
Elmhurst (Ill.) Memorial Healthcare plans to close two inpatient units at its older inpatient facility and convert it into a senior care center, according to a Crain's Chicago Business report.
Riverside Shore Memorial Hospital, based in Nassawadox, Va., has expanded its already existing no-smoking policy to include all owned or leased property, according to a Delmarva Now report.