Summer Nurse Roundup
Nurse Leader Insider, June 30, 2016
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Nurse Leader Insider!
Summer is here, so it’s time to explore some of the best—and worst—nursing stories from the past few months.
Nurses included in healthcare fraud takedown: The department of Health and Human Services (HHS) led a nationwide takedown on health care fraud schemes involving $900 million in false billings. 301 individuals, including nurses, doctors, and other medical professionals, were charged in this in this fraud takedown, the largest in history. Charges included conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud, kickbacks, money laundering and identity theft. (Source: Department of Justice)
Nurses are never off duty—even on their wedding day: Julie Stroyne, a trauma nurse from UPMC Presbyterian Hospital in Pittsburgh, was leaving her wedding to start her new life when she heard people yelling for help. Dropping her bouquet, she rushed into action to help an unconscious woman on a nearby park bench. She performed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on the woman in her wedding dress, saving the woman’s life before the paramedics arrived. (Source: Today)
Dean of Nursing moonlights as a comedian, for the kids: Gloria Ferraro Donnelly, the 74-year-old dean of Drexel’s College of Nursing came up with an unexpected way to raise money for students: a stand-up comedy routine. Dressed in a t-shirt, yoga pants and sweatbands with a water bottle tied around her waist, the dean’s comedy routine called “The Quest for Physical Perfection,” has raised almost $65,000 for the student emergency fund since 2010. Though she’s retiring this year, Donnelly hopes to continue her comedy career to continue raising money for the fund. (Source: Philly.com)
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Nurse Leader Insider!
Related Products
-
Strategies for Nurse Managers
Strategies for Nurse Managers is a 12-page monthly how-to newsletter that was created exclusively to help you save time...
-
Nurse Leader Insider
Our informative free e-mail newsletter for nursing professionals delivers helpful tips and advice each week!
-
Critical Thinking, Coping, and Communication in Nursing
Teach your nurses to manage stress in a hectic clinical environment with this new video. In less than 20 minutes, your...
-
The Image of Nursing Book and Handbook Package
This groundbreaking book and handbook set examines the professional image of nursing today and provides you with practical...
-
Accountability in Nursing:
This book and CD-ROM provides you with six easy-to-follow steps to hold your staff, your peers, your superiors—and...
Most Popular
- Articles
-
- Check for New SAG, Remember TJC Standard Revisions Effective July 1
- Don't forget the three checks in medication administration
- Practice the six rights of medication administration
- Note similarities and differences between HCPCS, CPT® codes
- Clearing up the confusion: CPT codes 76376 and 76377
- ICD-10-CM coma, stroke codes require more specific documentation
- Q&A: Primary, principal, and secondary diagnoses
- Complications from immobility by body system
- Implications of CMS Changes to H&P Requirements
- Neurological checks for head injuries
- E-mailed
-
- Service animals in the clinic
- Tip: Reporting tobacco use in ICD-10-CM
- Medical record committee protocol
- How to update your restraint and seclusion policy
- Hospital Billing from A to Z: 3- and 1-day rules
- Check for New SAG, Remember TJC Standard Revisions Effective July 1
- Bill and charge for supplies correctly to reduce risk and minimize lost revenue
- Better ways to catch medication errors
- Searched
