Tag: nurses
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General Assembly authorizes $28 million for a new, health care focused campus at SKyCTC in Glasgow
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Southcentral Kentucky Community and Technical College in Glasgow has received $28 million in state funding to spend on rebuilding its health campus. The funds...
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WDRB: Kentucky Nurses Association calls for improvements to health care workforce violence law
“Recent violent attacks against health care workers in Kentucky have prompted renewed calls for stronger workplace safety protections, as medical professionals warn that the violence could worsen the state’s ongoing...
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UK HealthCare hires more than 300 nurses in program aimed at addressing workforce shortage
By Alexa Wingate University of Kentucky As part of the latest step to hire thousands of health-care workers over the next decade, UK HealthCare has hired more than 300 registered...
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Ideas for patient safety: collaboration, transparency, more nurses in hospitals and nursing homes, surgical patients’ risk awareness
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Patient safety was the topic at the 2016 HealthWatch USA conference this month in Lexington, with health advocates calling for a more collaborative and...
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Prescriptions for better health care and health: empowering patients, increasing health education and collaboration
By Melissa Patrick University of Kentucky School of Journalism and Telecommunications The importance of empowering patients, increasing health education and collaboration were a few of the topics discussed at the...
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Speakers at conference discuss impacts and possible solutions for deadly mistakes and near misses in hospitals
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Medical mistakes made in hospitals cause 98,000 deaths per year. Or four times that many? That is the widely accepted number based on a...
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Congressman visits Telehealth Primary Care Clinic in Campton
U.S. Rep. Andy Barr U.S. Rep. Andy Barr, a freshman Republican from the Sixth District, recently visited the Telehealth Primary Care Clinic in Campton. The clinic, one of two in...
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School boards across Ky. realign school-nurse programs, squeezed by budget cuts and Medicaid payment issues
School districts in Kentucky have long relied on county health departments for school nurses, but state budget cuts and problems with Medicaid reimbursements have squeezed the health agencies, and they...
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LaRue County High School collaborates with university and nursing home to offer nurse-aide training course
Fifteen students at LaRue County High School have signed up for a new nurse’s aide class offered in coordination with Campbellsville University and a local nursing home through which students...
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Frontier Nursing University in Hyden helps bring better family health care to rural America with distance learning
Midwives and nurse practitioners who recently graduated from Frontier Nursing University in Hyden address the unique challenges of rural areas, including shortages of health care providers, by bringing local health care to...