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Appellate Ruling in Care Alternatives FCA Case May Set New Precedent

Hospice News

The case has been meanerding through federal district and appellate courts since 2008. The litigation first arose in 2008 when four former employees of Care Alternatives filed a qui tam complaint alleging that the New Jersey-based company billed Medicare for hospice services when patients were not eligible to receive them.

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Incivility in Online Nursing Programs 

Minority Nurse

Suplee, Lachman, Siebert, and Anselmi (2008) indicated that a faculty witnesses daily encounters in classes and clinical settings. Journal of Nursing Law 12 (2008): 68-77. Incivility in nursing education has become an increasingly bothersome problem; however, it has especially become a nuisance in online education.

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Digital Matrons leading the way with Digital technologies

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

This week’s blog comes from Nikki McNulty and Candice McGrane, Digital Matrons at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust (UHCW). Candice is a Nurse and has worked at UHCW since qualifying as a staff nurse in 2008, having worked across several specialities within medicine. NHS England » Matron’s handbook.

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Nurses Help Nurses Succeed, Stay Safe, and De-Stress

Nurse.com

Thomas, who began her nursing career at The Cleveland Clinic in 2004, remembered a program called Code Lavender that was developed and launched by the hospital in 2008. The post Nurses Help Nurses Succeed, Stay Safe, and De-Stress appeared first on Nurse.com Blog.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

GeriPal

I actually wrote a blog post about this when we were a blog. We were a blog? I’m most proud that when we started the blog, there was some tension between Geriatrics and Palliative care. ” I think we started the blog in 2007 or 2008, we were doing that up until 2016. Remember way back when?

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“Don’t talk your business”: Big and small actions to promote Black Women’s engagement with healthcare.

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

This week’s blog has been written by Dr Clare McFeely RM, BSc, MSc, PhD, PgCAP (@ClareUoG) & Tobi Abedayo RN, BN(Hons) from Nursing & Healthcare School ( @UofGNurse), School of Medicine, Dentistry & Nursing, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom. appeared first on Evidence-Based Nursing blog.

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Dr. Michaela Lewis: A Career in Pediatric Nursing

Minority Nurse

I completed my undergraduate nursing studies at Gardner-Webb University in 2008 and earned my Doctor of Nursing Practice degree at the Medical University of South Carolina in 2015. She shared some of her thoughts about a career in pediatric nursing in time for the annual celebration of Pediatric Nurses Week which runs from October 2 to 6.

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