Month: February 2011

A Recycling Mission: Health Care Must Become Healthier

A Recycling Mission: Health Care Must Become Healthier

Hospitals are going green! It’s now standard for hospitals to recycle everything from paper products and beverage bottles to less common items like blue wrap, saline containers, electronics and batteries. As the largest contingent of the health care workforce, nurses must learn to recycle, according to eco-friendly health advocates. They handle at least 95 percent […]

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Virtualization Primer at Ars Technica

Virtualization Primer at Ars Technica

The first in a series of four planned articles, this Ars Technica article is an introduction to the use of VMWare in an enterprise environment.  Leading to the details in a later article, Ars writer Sam Webb describes the advantages of virtualization with the capabilities of live migration, “high availability” and fault tolerance.  High availability […]

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Tips for upholding nursing ethics in everyday conversations

Tips for upholding nursing ethics in everyday conversations

According to the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems, the quality of a nurse’s conversations with his/her patient can potentially affect their satisfaction, how public information is received and understood,  and how reimbursements are made from Medicare and Medicaid. In this article, the authors of Ethics and Issues in Contemporary Nursing offer their tips into upholding […]

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