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Theresa A. Soriano, MD, MPH, Receives Hastings Center Award for Excellence in End-of-Life Care

Theresa Soriano, MD, Director of the Visiting Doctors Program, The Mount Sinai Medical Center

New York, NY (PRWEB) January 17, 2012

Theresa A. Soriano, MD, MPH, Director of the Mount Sinai Visiting Doctors Program, and Associate Professor of Medicine and Assistant Professor of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, has been honored with the prestigious Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Physician Award for improving the care of patients near the end of life.

Dr. Soriano is one of only three early-career physicians in the country recognized for her commitment to the field and contribution through practical research and clinical work. She will receive the award in a ceremony at Mount Sinai.

Under Dr. Soriano’s leadership, the Visiting Doctors Program at Mount Sinai—one of the nation’s largest academic home-based primary and palliative care program—has created a safety net for more than 1,200 homebound patients and a comfortable in-home palliative care environment.

“The success of the Visiting Doctors Program in providing end-of-life and primary care in a challenging health care environment is the result of Dr. Soriano’s advocacy, her passion for caring for the underserved, and her deep understanding of the importance of the person within the patient,” said David Muller, MD, Chair of the Department of Medical Education, Dean for Medical Education, and Associate Professor of Medicine. “Whether it is for the patient at the bedside, the trainee struggling to make sense of caring for someone at the end of life, or lobbying in the state legislature, Dr. Soriano brings to bear her intellect, passion for justice, and keen interpersonal skills to get the job done.”

Since 1995, the Mount Sinai Visiting Doctors Program has provided compassionate health care to elderly or ailing adults who are unable to leave their homes. The award-winning program grew out of the collaborative efforts of the Samuel L. Bronfman Department of Medicine and the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine. Throughout Manhattan, the Visiting Doctors team of physicians, nurses, social workers and administrative staff delivers comprehensive primary and palliative care to an underserved segment of the population—homebound adults, consisting of geriatric patients, as well as those with psychiatric, neurological, complex, and terminal illnesses. The team also reaches out to families and caregivers to offer emotional support and counseling.

“It has been so rewarding to see so many patients benefit from the primary and palliative care services that Visiting Doctors provides, and to expose students and housestaff to this work,” said Dr. Soriano. “I am honored to be recognized by the Hastings Center and the Cunniff-Dixon Foundation for the difference we are making in the lives of these patients and families.”

The Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Physician Award is provided by the Cunniff-Dixon Foundation, whose mission is to enrich the doctor-patient relationship near the end of life, in partnership with The Hastings Center, a bioethics research institute that has done groundbreaking work on end-of-life decision-making. The nomination and selection process was administered by The Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life. The Cunniff-Dixon Foundation was founded in 2005 by Matthew A. Baxter in memory of his wife, Carley Cunniff, who died of breast cancer, and in recognition of her attending physician, Dr. Peter S. Dixon, who enabled her to die a peaceful death at home with her family and loved ones.

About The Mount Sinai Medical Center

The Mount Sinai Medical Center encompasses both The Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Established in 1968, Mount Sinai School of Medicine is one of few medical schools embedded in a hospital in the United States. It has more than 3,400 faculty in 32 departments and 15 institutes, and ranks among the top 20 medical schools both in National Institute of Health funding and by U.S. News & World Report. The school received the 2009 Spencer Foreman Award for Outstanding Community Service from the Association of American Medical Colleges.

The Mount Sinai Hospital, founded in 1852, is a 1,171-bed tertiary- and quaternary-care teaching facility and one of the nation’s oldest, largest and most-respected voluntary hospitals. U.S. News & World Report consistently ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital among the nation’s best hospitals based on reputation, patient safety, and other patient-care factors. Nearly 60,000 people were treated at Mount Sinai as inpatients last year, and approximately 530,000 outpatient visits took place.

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The MedZilla Report for January 2012 — Health Care Industry Remained One of the Most Robust Sources of Jobs in the U.S.

Seattle, WA (PRWEB) January 12, 2012

As 2011 came to a close, the health care industry remained one of the most robust sources of jobs in the U.S., adding 315,000 over the past twelve months. Twenty-three thousand alone were added in December. The U.S. unemployment rate also continued its downward trend, ending December at 8.5 percent nationally. Meanwhile, outplacement research firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas reported that just under 42,000 planned job cuts were announced in December — the lowest monthly total since June.

    ”Our team saw relatively few job cuts in health care and pharmaceuticals in December,” said John Burkhardt, Managing Director of MedZilla.com, the internet’s most established source for healthcare, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology employment information. “In December 2010, the same thing happened — probably because it looks bad for a company to announce firings around the holidays.” In fact, other than a few small workforce reductions, CG&C reported only two major layoff announcements. The first came from Siemens, who plans to cut 1,600 jobs in its health care division (bloomberg.com, 12/21/11); the other was a 225-person cut made by Tucson, Ariz.-based Carondelet Health Network (azstarnet.com, 12/13/11).

    Meanwhile, several new job initiatives made the news in December. Many were relatively small — such as the 25 in Duluth, MN. (wdio.com, 12/14/11) — but three major announcements increased optimism among job-seekers that more like it might someday be coming to their towns. They include 600 openings at OptumRx’s facility in Kansas (marketwatch.com, 12/21/11), 400 at WVU Healthcare in West Virginia (wboy.com, 12/16/11), and 250 in Ohio from a combination of Philips Healthcare (cleveland.com, 12/19/11) and CareSource (areadevelopment.com, 12/13/11).

    Companies seeking qualified candidates were most active last month in Illinois, according to MedZilla statistics, increasing their search activities by 11 percent. California companies were up seven percent, North Carolina by 5.7, and three other states by about 1.5. The biggest slowdowns were in New Jersey — down 5.2 percent — and both Massachusetts and Florida — down 2.4 percent apiece. Most increases came in management (8.8 percent). However, as per usual, changes in the number of job postings did not correspond with candidate searches — with only two exceptions (both swinging less than two percent in either direction), companies did not significantly increase or decrease their job postings in December. Job searches by candidates themselves also remained flat, except in California and New Jersey, where job seekers backed off their search activities by between one and 1.5 percent.

    ”Because December is a holiday month, people who already have jobs are unlikely to try and make a change,” said Del Johnston, MedZilla’s Manager of Client Relations. “The holiday season can be pretty stressful even without a job change. As for people without jobs, many fear that the people who can hire them won’t be in the office and their resumes will get stuck at the bottom of the stack when managers get back from vacation.” Additionally, job seekers may fall prey to new rules that were not in place when their resumes were sent in. For example, Pennsylvania healthcare provider Geisinger has become one of a growing number of companies to declare they will not hire smokers, testing potential candidates for nicotine as well as the standard slate of illegal substances (wjactv.com, 12/28/11). “The new year may not be the best time to make a resolution,” said Johnston, citing a MeYou Health report stating that 85 percent of New Year’s Resolutions fail (njuice.com, 12/28/11), “but if you’ve been planning to quit smoking and you happen to be in the job market, sooner is better than later.

    Another interesting bit of news released in December indicated that the future for nurses may actually be better than that of doctors, at least when it comes to compensation. According to Forbes columnist Merrill Matthews (forbes.com, 12/21/11), nursing salaries rose by six percent from 2009 to 2010 (up to about $ 67,000), while nurse practitioners and physician assistants made between $ 90,000 and $ 105,000 in 2010. Matthews then revealed that most family physicians only made between $ 100,000 and $ 175,000 that year despite their additional schooling, authority, and possible student loans.

    ”Generally when people think ‘get a job in health care’, they think ‘I’ll have to go to school and become a doctor’,” Burkhardt said. “However, there are many jobs available in health care, from nursing to occupational therapy to pharmacist — someone’s got to work at the drugstores on every corner — and job seekers looking to make a change in the new year should remember that it doesn’t take an M.D. to make a good living in the field.”

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All Nursing Schools Discusses Obama’s Health Care Reform and Nursing Career Opportunities

Seattle, Washington (PRWEB) July 22, 2009

According to All Nursing Schools, the need for more efficient and affordable health care at a time when the economy is struggling and the baby boomer population is aging, makes health care reform crucial. With the health care crisis being felt by American families, President Obama’s call for “comprehensive” health care(1) comes at a great time for nurses.

There has been a nursing shortage for years, and, in response, registered nursing is anticipated to be one of the hottest jobs over the next several years(2). This, coupled with the fact that one of President Obama’s goals for the health care reform is to hire more nurses, makes today an excellent time to wear scrubs to work.

All Nursing Schools provides comprehensive and up-to-date nursing career and education resources for both students and professionals looking to advance their nursing education. Among the in-depth nursing education offerings, All Nursing Schools gives students a firsthand look into nursing careers and jobs, guidance on the wide diversity of nursing fields students can pursue, and important industry data–such as salary and how the recent federal stimulus bill affects the nursing shortage.

“There is so much opportunity in the health care and nursing fields today,” says Dana Larsen, career researcher for All Nursing Schools. “Whether students want to be a travel nurse, surgical nurse or neonatal nurse–or are just looking to earn more money in their current nursing career–All Nursing Schools can help them find informative and up-to-date career and nursing education resources to help them take advantage of nursing career stimulus opportunities.”

About All Nursing Schools

All Nursing Schools is a comprehensive online publisher of accredited nursing degree programs and nursing career resources. Since 2001, All Nursing Schools has been helping match millions of highly qualified prospective students with the schools that best meet their educational needs. All Nursing Schools strives to be the finest resource available to prospective students and nurses, and is one of several unique Web sites owned by All Star Directories, Inc.

About All Star Directories, Inc.

All Star Directories, Inc. is one of the Internet’s fastest growing publishers of online and career school directories, matching millions of highly qualified prospective students with the schools that best meet their education needs. Recently, Inc. Magazine ranked All Star among the fastest growing companies in the country, and the Puget Sound Business Journal has recognized the company as one of Washington state’s fastest growing companies for five consecutive years. From leading research institutions to fast-growing online and for-profit schools, nearly 6,000 featured schools trust All Star Directories as the authority in online student recruitment. The All Star network of sites focuses on a wide range of fields including All Allied Health Schools, All Art Schools, All Business Schools, All Education Schools, All Psychology Schools, All Criminal Justice Schools, All Computer Schools and All Nursing Schools. Please visit http://www.allstardirectories.com or call 1-888-404-8043 for more information.

(1) National Nurses Organizing Committee, 2009.

(2) Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2009.

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AvidNurse App Provides New Tools for Patient Care

Austin, TX (PRWEB) April 28, 2011

For most working professionals, smartphone technology has become part of daily life. Nurses are no exception, with apps being developed especially for their diagnostic and healthcare information needs.

In 2009, The American Journal of Nursing reported on how nurses in the U.S. use smartphones at work. The most popular uses included prescription drug reference (50%) and clinical decision support (27%). A larger percentage said that they would like to be able to use their smartphone for clinical decision support.

In its recent survey of 1,100 nurses, the Nurse Oncology Education Program (NOEP) found that over 36% use a smartphone. NOEP’s new mobile application, AvidNurse, will allow nurses to access nursing education resources and tools via iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. The app is available for $ 3.99 through iTunes.

AvidNurse includes a quick-reference guide to cancer screening recommendations, BMI conversions, pain scales, and medication calculators. Nurses in all fields of practice can provide personalized and in-depth medical information about a patient’s risks for breast, prostate, colorectal, and lung cancers. NOEP Director Joni Watson, MSN, RN, OCN says, “As trusted and respected healthcare professionals, nurses can be confident sharing information via AvidNurse on tobacco cessation, cancer prevention, detection, treatment, and pain management.” AvidNurse is made possible by the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas.

NOEP is a nonprofit project of the Texas Nurses Association/Foundation providing continuing nursing education on cancer prevention, detection, treatment and survivorship.

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Supplemental Health Care Celebrates National Nurses Week

Park City, Utah (PRWEB) May 03, 2011

National Nurses Week, May 6 – 12, recognizes the contributions of nurses working to improve the wellbeing of patients throughout the nation. Supplemental Health Care, a leading provider of workforce solutions for health care facilities and professionals, puts 1500–1600 nurses to work daily and is proud to honor this celebration through its appreciation program, Nurses Rock. This enterprise-wide initiative will pay respect to the passion, enthusiasm and dedication nurses demonstrate in health care organizations every day.

National Nurses Week has celebrated the nursing profession since 1988, and commemorates May 12, the birthday of Florence Nightingale – known as the founder of modern nursing. Health care institutions nationwide participate in this week-long observance to acknowledge how nurses influence the United States’ health care industry. To support National Nurses Week, Supplemental Health Care is celebrating its nursing workforce through local Nurses Rock-themed events, gifts and cards. This week is an opportunity for the company to recognize nurses’ efforts in supporting other medical professionals, providing quality patient care and maintaining productive health care environments.

“Our Nurses Week program is only one facet of Supplmental Health Care’s commitment to honoring the exemplary performance of our nursing employees,” said Janet Elkin, Chief Executive Officer and President, Supplemental Health Care. “We continually seek new and creative ways to extend our appreciation to our nurses for their outstanding contributions to our health care facility partners throughout the nation.”

In addition to Supplemental Health Care’s Nurses Rock celebration, the company diligently works to support and uplift its nurses with a variety of corporate programs. The company has developed unique initiatives such as the Helping Hands Referral Program, which allows nurses to receive compensation for every hour a referred recruit works for the company; and the Our Rewards Program, a project awarding nurses with points for every hour worked that can be redeemed for more than 3,500 merchandise options. Collectively, these efforts help Supplemental Health Care ensure its nurses receive the recognition and praise they deserve every day of the year.

Please visit http://www.supplementalhealthcare.com to learn more about Supplemental Health Care and its national nursing employment opportunities.

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