Nursing Shortage: A Doctor’s Perspective
Barbara Ficarra, RN, Award-Winning Journalist, Executive Producer and Medical Show Host of Health in 30 and Nurses in Motion recently sat down with Fred Pescatore, M.D., NY Times-Best Selling Author and Practicing Family Physician in NY to continue the discussion on the nursing shortage.
The nursing shortage is a global complex issue, and there […]
Medical Tourism: Evaluating International Markets
Medical tourism has become a booming global industry. As health care costs fly high in the United States, some patients are taking their medical business across borders and into the hospitals of Mexico, Thailand, Singapore, India, and other countries where the cost of surgery and other procedures is lower. Many of the hospitals in these […]
Nurses Wanted… Autoworkers Could Do
The United States is facing a major nursing shortage that differs from those of bygone days. This new beast is borne of demographics: as baby-boomers grow older, the nurses at their bedsides are aging alongside them. It’s not only the nurses who are ripening; their teachers are too.
“We’ve had cyclical nursing shortages […]
Removing Latex Gloves from the Hospital: A Rationale Decision?
Non-latex sterile surgical gloves have been introduced into the operating room as a solution to increased reports among healthcare workers (HCWs) and patients who describe allergies associated with latex.
On the one hand, this reminds me of the pulling of all peanuts from the school system because 1% of kids have allergies. Especially due to the […]
A Need for Standardized Testing on Gloves
Testing for viral penetration of non-latex surgical and examination gloves
In response to a growing need to protect health care workers and patients from the possibility of transmission of HIV through contact with body fluids, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued Universal Precaution Standards. Consequently, the use of examination gloves in clinical practice rose […]
NYC Hospital Closings
The New York Commission on Health Care Facilities for the 21st Century announced the closing and realignment of hospitals throughout New York State last month. The move was prompted by an escalating fiscal crisis in the health care system of New York caused primarily by the highest cost Medicaid program in the United States. […]
