Clovis, CA (PRWEB) April 28, 2010

It is no secret that healthcare costs in the United States are increasing. Doctors, patients and insurance companies alike believe that part of the reason for the increase is expensive and sometimes inefficient medical malpractice litigation. The cost of medical lawsuits has steadily increased over the past decade. The American Medical Association says that 60% of malpractice lawsuits are dropped or dismissed, but the cost of these lawsuits is driving the cost of healthcare up and even causing some medical professionals to limit their practices.

Attorneys are often required to spend countless hours researching to determine whether a case has medical merit. Without this research, healthcare consumers can make the costly mistake of filing unnecessary law suits.

Certified Legal Nurse Consulting is a growing field that helps healthcare consumers, attorneys and healthcare systems save time, money and their sanity. In addition to determining the medical merit of a case, a nurse consultant also organizes and interprets medical records, locates expert witnesses and assists with discovery and trial preparation.

Donna Post, an RN with 25 years experience as a critical care nurse and nurse manager and a Certified Legal Nurse Consultant(CLNC®) says, “Having detailed knowledge of the healthcare system along with the additional CLNC® training allows the legal nurse consultant to adapt to many types of cases including medical malpractice, personal injury and workers’ compensation. A CLNC® can provide this expertise efficiently and cost effectively, saving the attorney time and saving the average client money.

Post is the owner and founder of Mid-Valley Legal Nurse Consulting, Inc (MVLNC) in Clovis, CA. The team at MVLNC has access to a nationwide network of healthcare professionals to ensure success in today’s complex medical litigation cases. She says teamwork is a critical element in providing a win-win situation for all parties involved. Mid-Valley Legal Nurse Consulting, Inc. provides nurse consultant services throughout California and the US.

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The Role of Nurse Informatics in Healthcare

By: Karen Williams

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Nurses and computers of olden days never really had much in common. The nurse tended to her patients, and the computer techs administered their computers. Today, nurse informatics have the skills and abilities in both those worlds. As computers and networks are crucial to the very existence of most businesses today, healthcare is-by far—no exception.

Talk about Versatility!

Virtually everything nurses do in diagnosing, treating and caring for patients involves the use of a computer. Computers, along with back-end servers and databases, hold millions of vital patient records and hospital operational programs. All of this information has to be secure, confidential and readily accessible to key healthcare personnel, especially the nurse.

As a nurse informatics, you will have advanced knowledge of in the area of healthcare information systems and how they directly relate to daily operations such as scheduling, research and billing. You will also, typically, be well-trained in such industry standards as DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) and HL7 (Health Level Seven). E-Health, or Electronic Health, is the generally the umbrella term that encompasses all aspects of technology in the workplace that nurse informatics are very familiar with. In addition, being trained-on, maintaining and using hand-held communication devices (e.g. PDA’s). This area of the job is referred to as mHealth (mobile health) and refers to all mobile devices that facilitate communication between healthcare providers.

Besides all of the technical aspects you will learn about (including the above), your career as a nurse informatics will entail learning about and applying the broad set of standards there are for electronic health records (EHR), HIPPAA (government-sanctioned confidentially standards) and various standards set forth by the CCHIT, or the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology.

Holy Acronyms!

Wow! Assuming you got through that herd of acronyms above, you may want to know a few more concepts of nurse informatics that are initially easier to understand:

Nurse informatics understands and applies the key concepts of the previously mentioned standards and many more.

They understand the inner-workings of the data that is collected, manipulated, stored and retrieved electronically. In addition to patient records and miscellaneous needs—billing and insurance, nurse personnel scheduling and policies/procedures are all stored and transmitted digitally. Therefore, all fall under the helm of the nurse informatics.

Sure, there is a vast, sometimes overwhelming, amount of information nurse informatics must learn and adapt to. However, that only goes with virtually any highly-specialized job in any job market. The following is one of the latest, official definitions:

“Nursing informatics is a specialty that integrates nursing science, computer science, and information science to manage and communicate data, information, and knowledge in nursing practice. Nursing informatics facilitates the integration of data, information, and knowledge to support patients, nurses, and other providers in their

Leland, MS (PRWEB) February 16, 2007

Quality Care Nursing is a healthcare-staffing agency that is owned and operated by Registered Nurses and experienced healthcare staffing professionals. Servicing many healthcare facilities in the Mississippi Delta and surrounding area, QCN is committed to providing quality health care to those who need it. Our mission is provide each QCN team member with the ideal employment experience, as well as a voice in their industry.

With today’s critical nursing shortage, finding qualified professionals for your healthcare facility is an enormous challenge to clinical managers and human-resource professionals alike. That’s why so many clients have come to rely on the services of Quality Care Nursing.

Quality Care Nursing provides hospitals, nursing homes and clinics with healthcare professionals. With the ultimate goal of helping our clients deliver the highest quality services to patients, Quality Care Nursing is your solution for filling per diem and extended contractual assignments.

Mission and Culture

Quality Care Nursing strives to provide benchmark-level staffing services for health care organizations and the professionals they employ.

We achieve this goal by adhering to the following cultural principals:

1. A passion for serving clients

2. Treating our team members and clients with respect

3. Creating a sense of urgency for delivering results

4. Providing a continuous learning atmosphere

5. Accomplishing results through unparalleled processes, professionalism and productivity

Background

Quality Care Nursing is recognized as one of the areas leading staffing agencies. Since its founding in 2003, the company has continued to exceed customer and team member expectation.

Management Team

Registered nurses with over 30 years of combined healthcare experience comprise Quality Care’s management team. From the staffing coordinators assigned to each account, to the senior executives in charge of day-to-day operations and quality assurance, the company’s staff members are dedicated to exceeding client expectations. Our culture of continuous learning and individual empowerment ensures that the package of services, processes, and practices that this team develops and deploys consistently surpasses industry standards.

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Pasadena, CA (PRWEB) May 24, 2008

EmploymentCrossing.com, one of the world’s largest job board operators, announced today the launch of a nursing career site that seeks to go out and find every single job in the nursing industry, NursingCrossing.com. As part of the EmploymentCrossing.com job site franchise, NursingCrossing.com seeks to list and consolidate every nursing job in the market on its site. NursingCrossing.com researches jobs from tens of thousands of sources and does not charge nursing employers to post nursing job openings on its site.

Using a proprietary technology and EmploymentCrossing’s staff of over 500 researchers, NursingCrossing.com monitors the nursing jobs on other job sites, hospital, clinic and other healthcare employer sites and displays every nursing job it finds. NursingCrossing.com’s goal is nothing less than to show job seekers every nursing job available.

“There are so many nursing jobs out there that job seekers do not know about,” says A. Harrison Barnes, founder and CEO of NursingCrossing. “The number of jobs on hospital and clinic websites far surpasses what most job seekers see advertised on most job sites. By bringing those jobs that are on employer websites to job seekers in the nursing industry, we are giving them many more options than they would get with a traditional nursing job search on other commercial nursing job boards.”

According to Barnes, the most popular nursing job searches on NursingCrossing.com have been:

-Travel nursing jobs and NursingCrossing.com

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-Jobs in nursing and NursingCrossing.com

-Nursing home administrator jobs and NursingCrossing.com

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-California nursing jobs and NursingCrossing.com

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“NursingCrossing is a research company and our job is to find every nursing job out there for people in the nursing industry,” Barnes says. “For example, we do not charge employers to post jobs with us and we aggressively monitor the hiring needs of every healthcare employer we can find. NursingCrossing.com is a service that I believe will change the nursing industry and how people find jobs forever.”

NursingCrossing.com charges job seekers .95 to look at its research. However NursingCrossing.com is currently offering a free 7 day trial to familiarize job seekers in the nursing industry with their service. The free trial is available to everyone on NursingCrossing.com registration page for a limited time.

For more information about NursingCrossing.com, please visit NursingCrossing.com.

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