Nurses are frequently placed in situations where they lack the time, and in some cases the resources to care for patients in the way they would like to.
TORONTO | Following what it calls a “highly successful” professional development day offered at the HSCN conference in May, the Healthcare Supply Chain Network has announced a second professional development day for the supply chain community, Dec. 4-5.
MONTREAL | Abbott says its i-STAT b-hCG is the only in vitro diagnostic point-of-care whole blood test for the early detection of pregnancy capable of delivering both quantitative and qualitative results within 10 minutes at the patient's bedside.
One of the country’s largest and most profitable hospital chains has been defeated in its effort to take away its nurses’ sick days, according to the union that mounted nine strikes there over the past two years.
Asking patients to track their nausea and vomiting after a course of chemotherapy helped the health care team to adjust medications and achieve better control of symptoms, according to the results of a small single center study.
