NOTES ON NURSING
Electronic Health Records May Turn Small Errors into Big Ones According to a review by the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority, mistakes and near misses involving electronic health records were analogous to those made with paper-based records with one caveat: those made with EHRs tend to be amplified and can affect a larger group of people.
LABOR UPDATES
Bay Area Nurses to Strike on Christmas Eve Union officials say the strike—the eighth by the association since September 2011—was not called over a salary dispute, but comes as the union and the hospitals remain at odds over staffing levels, health benefits and sick days.
HEALTH CARE NEWS
3 in 10 Americans Skip Medical Care Due to Cost Gallup said that’s the highest percentage since Gallup began tracking this measure 12 years ago, when 19 percent of Americans said they put off medical care.