Carolyn Buppert, NP, JD Posted: 12/01/2011 Editor’s Note: Healthcare is serious business, and the repercussions of deficiencies in medical documentation can be considerable. Nurse attorney Carolyn Buppert examines the landscape of medical record auditing — for a variety of purposes — and offers practical suggestions to improve your documentation in this 3-part series. Part 1 [...]
MIDLAND, Texas — A whistleblower nurse who filed a complaint to Texas medical regulators is telling a West Texas jury that she tried for months to raise concerns about the doctor at the rural hospital where she worked. Anne Mitchell testified Tuesday in the Midland retaliation trial of Winkler County Sheriff Robert Roberts. She told [...]
Study Summary Background. The first few years of nursing are stressful on many levels: fear of errors, lack of support, interpersonal conflict, and complex work environments. Many factors can lead to a decision by a new graduate nurse to leave a job, causing high rates of turnover, a costly outcome for both the nurse and [...]
There is a significant association between patient mortality and exposure to nursing shifts that fall below target staffing levels or have high patient turnover, the authors of a new study report. “We estimate that the risk of death increased by 2% for each below-target shift and 4% for each high-turnover shift to which a patient [...]
Consolidating services will lead to cuts Boston Medical Center plans to eliminate an unspecified number of jobs this spring as it moves to consolidate services in the face of continued financial deficits caused by cuts in reimbursement rates. The safety-net hospital, which serves a large population of low-income city residents, widened its operating loss to [...]
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