NOTES ON NURSING
In Australia, Nurses Fight for Patient Ratios “You’re less likely to have the nursing hours you need the further you are from the city,” Miss Telfer said.
NSW Midwives Issued “Cease and Desist” on Patient Limits Despite Shortages “We accept there is a shortage of midwives out there but management needs to understand that not only are staff at Nepean exhausted, they are deeply concerned that health care is being compromised. They have reached their limit and cannot continue on in this way.”
HEALTH CARE
The $2.7 Trillion Medical Bill In many other developed countries, a basic colonoscopy costs just a few hundred dollars and certainly well under $1,000. That chasm in price helps explain why the United States is far and away the world leader in medical spending, even though numerous studies have concluded that Americans do not get better care.
Hospital CEOs See Double Digit Pay Hikes A recent survey by Equilar, an executive compensation data firm based in Redwood City, Calif., found that — for the fourth time in five years — health care chief executives commanded the highest pay packages last year among publicly traded companies.
Violence Against Women is a Serious Public Health Problem IPV and domestic violence figures among the top ten global causes of years of life lost due to premature mortality and disability. The consequences of IPV are far reaching, insidiously destructive and have a widespread negative socioeconomic impact.
Trapped in a Hospital Bed But one number sent a murmur through the auditorium anyway: 43 minutes. That’s the median time a hospitalized elderly patient spends standing or walking daily, Dr. Brown and her colleagues reported in 2009.
LABOR UPDATES
Scores of Workers Die in Chinese Poultry Plant Fire Explosions and fire tore through parts of a poultry plant in northeast China on Monday, killing at least 119 people in one of the country’s worst factory accidents in recent years.
OpEd: Reaching Milestone of Working Women Still Finds U.S. Last Among Rich Nations in Supporting Working Families After 50 years, shouldn’t we stop debating whether we want mothers to work and start implementing the social policies and working conditions that will allow families to take full advantage of the benefits of women’s employment and to minimize its stresses?