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Fired Nurse Wins Unemployment Benefits After Being Assaulted by Combative Patient

Scrubs

Records show Martinek worked at the facility from January 2018 to September of last year when the incident occurred. The man was then discharged from the hospital and put in the county jail. She was denied unemployment benefits for months because her former employer challenged her claim, but a state court recently ruled in her favor.

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Wearable, Shareable, Virtual: The Demands of the Digital Health Consumer in 2018

Health Populi

This week at the 2018 annual HIMSS conference, telehealth is playing a mainstream role in discussions about right-sizing and right-placing healthcare. The evidence for telehealth’s tipping point is rooted in new research published today by Accenture on Patients + Doctors + Machines, Accentures’ 2018 Consumer Survey on Digital Health.

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Burn Care for Underserved Communities: A Certified Burn Nurse’s Perspective

Minority Nurse

As burn injuries are often associated with several social determinants of health, including poverty (Patel, 2018), food insecurity (Elsey, 2016), and living in under-resourced neighborhoods (Alnabantah, 2016), burn nurses play a crucial role in caring for some of the patients most in need of care. 2018 Apr;202:38-42. Epub 2018 Feb 23.

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Magnet Status Matters: What Magnet Recognition Means for Hospitals and the Nurses Working There

Minority Nurse

per discharge. Stop by booth 2018. Proponents will argue that Magnet designation will offset the associated cost with higher net patient revenue and improved outcomes. A Magnet-designated hospital receives an adjusted net increase in inpatient income of $104.22–$127.05 So, nurses, do your research.

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The Evolution of a Patient Ambassador – Learning from Stacy Hurt

Health Populi

Consider: fighting health insurance appeals, crafting countless medical necessity letters, justifying being discharged against medical orders, and other battles fought hand-in-hand with her husband on behalf of Emmett and his well-being.

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Medical Costs Are Consuming Americans’ Financial Health

Health Populi

Spending on medical care costs crowded out other household spending for millions of Americans in 2018, based on The U.S. Americans borrowed $88 billion in 2018 to pay for health care spending, West Health and Gallup estimated. Healthcare Cost Crisis , a survey from West Health and Gallup. Gallup polled 3,537 U.S.

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Meet Nicole Reid, Poison Control Nurse

Minority Nurse

In 2018, I was promoted to my current role of managing director of NCPC. In 2018, I became the managing director of the Poison Center and along with my co-director, we have run the organization ever since. I spent five days in the hospital and was discharged home on oxygen.