Nursing - News September 13, 2011

St. Joseph has new chief nursing officer (Kansas City Nursing News)
St. Joseph Medical Center welcomes Deb Ohnoutka, BSN, MHA, as its chief nursing officer overseeing nursing initiatives, cultivating a safe environment for patients and associates, and developing a team of inspired, motivated and engaged staff.

Cognition Research Aims To Reduce Medical Errors (Medical News Today)
How doctors, nurses and other health care professionals can be better prepared to reduce medical mistakes and improve patient care is the focus of several studies published in a special issue of the American Psychological Association's Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied.

Age Appropriate? (Advance)
Urinary incontinence is not normal at any age, and therefore it should not be considered an expected outcome of getting older.1 Even though urinary incontinence is not limited to older adults, it occurs most often in this population.2 Thus, many healthcare providers view urinary incontinence as a chronic disease associated with aging.

Director of Nursing - Ped... NewYork-Presbyterian Hosp... (Nurse)
Best-In-Class Pediatric Nursing: Be A Leader Who Makes It Possible Step into NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, a premier destination for pediatric health.

Plymouth Labour pledges to fight NHS reforms as battles moves to the Lords (Peoples Republic of South Devon)
Plymouth's two Conservative MPs voted for controversial plans to break up the NHS last week.

Nursing Home Failed To Prescribe Proper Medication For At Least 18 Patients, State Charges (The Hartford Courant)
State health regulators have fined a Danielson nursing home for failing to provide patients with their prescribed doses of medication for heart disease, dementia and other serious conditions.

IBM's Watson - hired' by WellPoint (Business Journal)
Watson can sift through an equivalent of about 1 million books, or roughly 200 million pages of data, and provide precise responses in less than three seconds.

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