Monthly Archives: November 2015

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  The Day After Thanksgiving

  While gratitude on Thanksgiving Day is not only tradition, but a marketable concept, the day after Thanksgiving has become the start of the holiday shopping stampede, basically the biggest shopping

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  What Nurses Do in the Midst of Terror

  With the attacks in Russia, Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey, and France, and continuing conflict in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank, we are focusing on the victims and the terrorists, but behind the

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  The Role of Television After a Terror Attack: Good for Patients?

  On 9/11, administrators at Craig Hospital in Englewood, Colorado, which cares for spinal cord and traumatic brain injury patients, quickly realized that continuous television broadcasting of the fall of the twin

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  New Final Rule: Conversations with Patients Matter

  Last month, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) issued a final rule updating payment policies, payment rates, and quality provisions for services furnished under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. It

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  Discharge: Re-entry Into the Afterlife of the Patient Experience

  Re-entry into life after hospitalization has been reduced to the term “discharge.” Healthcare professionals have also limited their responsibility for patients once they leave the hospital to a list of instructions

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