URGENT – Immediate Action Necessary to Save NursingWorkforce funding! Call your Sens. today.

Stop amendment threatening Title VIII funding. Call your Senators TODAY,
tell them to Vote NO on the Allard Amendment
The Senate is scheduled to vote at 5:30 this evening (10/22) on an amendment
that would diminish funding for nursing workforce development programs by
10%. Sen. Wayne Allard (R-CO) is sponsoring the amendment, which would
impact all Title VIII Nursing Workforce [...]

Violations at University of Iowa hospitals

Violations at University of Iowa hospitals
Iowa state inspectors found 41 health and safety violations at University of
Iowa Hospitals. The hospital is accused of failing to report the deaths of
nine patients who were allegedly restrained at the time of their death.
Inspectors also cited the hospital for issues pertaining to patients who
were receiving dialysis treatments according to [...]

Essential Nursing Resources

The ICIRN’s (Interagency Council on Information Resources in Nursing) Essential Nursing Resources has just been published in NLN’s Nursing Education Perspectives, September / October 2007 Vol.28 No.5.
Here’s an electronic link to the pdf version:
http://nln.allenpress.com/pdfserv/i1536-5026-028-05-0276.pdf
The HTML version is in process.
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Software Application Evaluates Medical Device Software for Software Errors

Check out this fascinating article about an automated software testing strategy for medical devices, like pacemakers and programmable IV pumps, that could be used during development to catch “bugs” before marketing and thereby prevent adverse events and recalls.
Go to:
http://www.medicaldevicestoday.com/2007/10/cdrh-software-f.html
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FilipinOnline – Link Exchange

I know the focus of my blog is to concentrate on Healthcare Informatics, and more importantly how nurses can play a vital role in this industry. However, as a blogger, I fancy myself in finding out how others are utilizing blogging as a platform to express their passion. I came across [...]