Nurses&#39; Working Conditions Tied to Patient Infections
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THURSDAY, May 31 (HealthDay News) -- Elderly intensive care unit patients have less risk of infection if the units have high nurse staffing levels, says a Columbia University School of Nursing study.
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Nurses understand that they have a tough job, but getting attacked and abused is not what former Boston area emergency room nurse Ellen MacInnis says she signed up for.
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Nurse Carolyne Mujibi went to work in Kenya&#039;s largest hospital after her father died there &amp;#151; from nursing neglect, she believes. Too much work, too little pay and an assault by a frustrated patient chipped away at her desire to try to make a difference in Kenya.
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Workload and doctors who don&#39;t have enough time for patients are cited as causes of medical errors. By Lee Bowman / Scripps Howard News Service.
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A quarter of hospital trusts in England are failing to meet new standards on infection control, a survey suggests.
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Nurses are not given enough help and support from their bosses in dealing with violent patients, researchers say.
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AMERICANS have been pouring greater and greater portions of the their salaries into health care over the past few years. And what makes most employees sick is that they are getting less and less for their money.
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Nearly all doctors, nurses and managers think their hospitals need to be made safer for patients, a poll suggests.
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An awareness campaign aimed at reducing the level of hospital acquired infections is launched in Glasgow.
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LONDON - More than a quarter of the country's NHS Trusts are failing to meet hygiene regulations brought in to combat outbreaks of superbugs in hospitals, the Healtchare Commission reported on Thursday.
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Patients going under the knife face a significant risk of becoming the victim of a medical error involving medication, according to a report being released today.
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Nurses&#39; leaders warned last night that the expansion of the NHS was &quot;built on sand&quot;, relying too much on the recruitment of overseas and temporary staff who may quit at short notice.
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More than a third of nurses have been assaulted or harassed while working alone in the community over the past two years, according to a survey published today.
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The health co-op says a strike isn&#39;t affecting patients&#39; access to care, but picketing union nurses offer a different opinion.
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Staff who struggle into work when they are ill risk potentially shortening their lives, researchers believe. Some workers who do not take time off when ill had twice the rate of heart disease, the 10-year study of 10,000 civil servants showed.
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A dangerous, drug-resistant staph germ may be infecting as many as 5 percent of hospital and nursing home patients, according to a comprehensive study.
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An antibiotic-resistant germ is increasingly causing skin infections and pneumonia in otherwise healthy children and adults. That&#39;s according to two of several