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16 hours ago ago from InfectoNews - Jorge Omar Calabrese

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I can C U Remote monitoring program at UMC reduces mortality, shortens hospital stay

15 hours ago ago from Nursing Notes

Image via Wikipedia As a nurse working the floor, I find this article very interesting.  I don't think I fully comprehend how this eICU is designed to function.  Does this mean that, in addition to the floor staffing, there will be another 10 nurses who will technically be working the ICU?  How can that fly with administration?  Or does this mean that because of the remote 10 nurses, the floor staff will be cut to the bone; leaving ...

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2 hours ago ago from Seattle Local Health Guide

Paul Taylor, CEO and chief legal counsel of Ozarks Community Hospital in Springfield, Mo. The Senate health care reform bill contains none of the features needed for real reform. The principal lobbyists have all scored impressive victories. The Wall Street “greed is good” sector, otherwise known as the commercial insurance business, traded obscene profit-making on its Medicare Advantage products for a legal mandate that will force ...

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Remote monitoring program in ICU – State – SunHerald.com

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