Positive nurse–physician communication doesn’t just improve the work environment; it’s also very critical to patient health care. Poor communication between nurses and physicians is the number-one cause for hospital errors, and many of these errors have fatal results. The following communication tips are provided by Bartholomew and Lolma Olson, MA, president and founder of Sage […]
Cisco has released a report built from data gathered from its RMS and IPS products at enterprise clients, with some surprising results regarding the age of the threats detected: The greatest activity from a botnet was the Rostock botnet, first seen in 2006. Conficker, MyDoom, Nachi and Slammer worms are still active, despite defensive measures […]
Though it’s already the beginning of March, it’s never too late to accomplish a goal or check items off your bucket list! But while most resolutions are personal in nature, let’s not forget to include our professional improvement into the mix. Below are some tips from Nurse Connect to help nurses balance their career, work, […]
IT research firm Gartner has released the results of an international survey taken last year indicating nearly half of the companies polled have implemented OSS (Open Source Software) in their organization. 22% indicated company-wide adoption of open source software and 46% used open source in specific departments or for individual projects. Only a third of […]
More hospitals and medical businesses in many states are adopting strict policies that make smoking a reason to turn away job applicants because they want to “increase worker productivity, reduce health care costs and encourage healthier living”. The new rules essentially treat cigarettes like an illegal narcotic. Applications now explicitly warn of “tobacco-free hiring”, job […]
New PCs from the large OEMs often are shipped with trial versions of applications not needed or desired by the purchaser. PCDecrapifier is a tool to allow users of new machines to easily remove the unnecessary (and potentially harmful) software, with the ability to choose to retain some, if desired. As it runs one time, […]
Home health nursing is a specialty that is expected to rapidly expand within the next decade! The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the employment of nurses in home health is projected to grow 33 percent from 2008 to 2018. “I feel home health care is what nursing was meant to be,” says Eileen […]
eWeek News is reporting that the new Bureau of Labor Statistics data is showing growth for IT hiring (except for data processing positions) for the previous year, including 8 straight months of increasing hiring. While not spectacular growth, only 21 job catagories are tracked by the BLS, so the relatively small number is jobs added […]
Hospitals are going green! It’s now standard for hospitals to recycle everything from paper products and beverage bottles to less common items like blue wrap, saline containers, electronics and batteries. As the largest contingent of the health care workforce, nurses must learn to recycle, according to eco-friendly health advocates. They handle at least 95 percent […]
The first in a series of four planned articles, this Ars Technica article is an introduction to the use of VMWare in an enterprise environment. Leading to the details in a later article, Ars writer Sam Webb describes the advantages of virtualization with the capabilities of live migration, “high availability” and fault tolerance. High availability […]