Tag: Nursing

Kevin Meyer, over at Evolving Excellence, recently wrote a good piece on "endorsing" a U.S. presidential candidate. Today, I'm technically Constitution-eligible to be...

Slowdown's Side Effect: More Nurses - WSJ.com:Not a Lean article, but a major issue for hospitals is a shortage of nurses. With the economy...

reportonbusiness.com: Asking 'why' again and again is harder than you think, but it works It's kind of neat to see a column about the "5...

Nurse + Blog = PixelRN: 16% of the US economy runs on scrawly, handwritten notes.PixelRN is a blog written by a nurse (who is...

Hospital's shake-up gives nurses more timeHere's a nice news article about the use of Lean in a hospital in New Zealand (hat tip to...

Care and Chaos on the Night Nursing Shift - WSJ.com Free Version via CareerJournal.com The linked article is a virtual "gemba walk" for those of you...

I read Paul Levy's blog every chance I get. He is the CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Although...

Dennis Quaid's newborns reportedly harmed by medical mix-up - Los Angeles Times (Updated 4:57 PM, again at 9:51 PM, see bottom of post) If this story...

I have a funny story from earlier this week. I was doing some process observation with nurses at a hospital, helping them identify waste...

In the news: Charges against nurse igniting a debate It sure is easier to think that medical mistakes are as simple as one person being...

This is an incredibly sad, and completely preventable, situation. Three babies are dead, and three more injured, because the wrong drug was administered...