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...This does not involve any health issue and the government even said that," Rosenthal said. "At no time was any patient's health or safety ever in question...
Rowe said the Pharmacy's "two priorities have always been to ensure patient health and safety and full compliance with state regulations...
Also set for November is the trial of a consumer-fraud lawsuit filed by the California Nurses Association against the 508-bed Alta Bates Medical Center in Berkeley. The suit claims that the hospital enforced a gag rule on its employees to "cover up the essential nature" of its patient-focused care plan. Viki Ardito, Alta Bates' acting vice president of patient-care services, calls the lawsuit frivolous: "It's about maintaining the union's people and their dues...
...Institute of Medicine, a congressionally chartered advisory body, reported in January that it was "shocked by the lack of current data relating to the status of hospital quality care." Nurses report that as they are taken from the bedside to supervise less skilled personnel, medication errors, patient injuries, infections and bedsores are on the rise. In preliminary results of an American Journal of Nursing survey conducted this spring by Judith Shindul-Rothschild, assistant professor of nursing at Boston College, almost 2 out of 5 nurses said they would not want a member of their own family to be cared...
...line, so the nurses may be biased. With the burgeoning emphasis on outpatient care, the nation's total number of hospital beds fell from 1.7 million (80% occupied) in 1965 to 1.2 million (70% occupied) in 1992. Between 1983 and 1993 the number of registered nurses per 100 patient admissions actually grew, from 80 to 105. Nurses argue that an ever sicker inpatient population requires ever more nursing, because the less gravely ill are never admitted and those on the mend are quickly shown the door. But hospital management sees a large number of high-priced R.N.s as the wrong...