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ONS 2018 Intake Model Frees Up Providers, Reduces Patient Anxiety When an oncology center restructured the intake process, it cut the time nurses spend with new patients and improved the satisfaction of patients and physicians.
Medscape Medical News, May 19, 2018
APNs Facilitate Pediatric Otolaryngology Callbacks to Caregivers Strategic use of advanced practice nurses to resolve patient triage issues can speed clinician response time to clinically-relevant phone calls in a high-volume pediatric otolaryngology practice, researchers in Ohio say.
Reuters Health Information, May 15, 2018

Hospitalist Specialty Code C6: 1 Year After Implementation What impact does this new specialty code have on hospitalists and processing claims?
Medscape Hospital Medicine, May 24, 2018
Turf Wars: Can MDs, NPs, and PAs Learn to Get Along? Reader response to a recent article about the pros and cons of working with NPs and PAs was voluminous, contentious, and--occasionally--insightful.
Medscape Family Medicine, May 17, 2018

Can I Be Forced to Work at an Affiliate Hospital? A nurse is unhappy about being forced to drive to another city to work when census is low in her hospital.
Medscape Nurses, May 11, 2018

Nurse Uniforms: Who Cares What Nurses Wear? A look back at nursing uniforms reveals how and why we ended up dressing the way we do.
Medscape Nurses, April 6, 2017