Summer Nurse Roundup
Nurse Leader Insider, June 30, 2016
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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)
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