Health Care Jobs in Oregon

The New York State Nurses Association has vowed to fight a decisioneffectively rewriting the healthcare benefits of its 14,000 plus members into anew configuration.In a less-than-thrilled press release on PR Newswire, the NYSNA states:Continue reading »...

Freestanding Emergency Departments (FEDs) were originally designed for ruralareas, where health care wasn’t readily available. It’s now come to big cities,but there are some questions regarding its appropriateness in areas which seemto be well served. The service idea is spreading however, and there’s been a65% increase in the number of FEDs since 2009 in 16 states.Continue reading »...

Everyone knows nurses have a lot of things to do, all the time. Ridiculousworkloads based on “spreadsheet medicine” don’t exactly help either. But whenit comes to not providing basic services like answering a call button, you knowsomething is wrong. In one bizarre case, a woman hospitalized with a broken leghad to ring her son, who lived 100 miles away, to get him to call the hospitaland get some service. The...

For those young whippersnappers like Methuselah who can remember whendoctors made house calls, it may not come as a total surprise that NPs are nowstepping into this role. The demand for home health care is constant andstrangely, it also happens to be best practice. Instead of expecting sickpeople to drag themselves into unhygienic, depressing places and experience theterrible feeling of being ignored for hours, ho...