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Tuesday, October 2, 2007 at 6:30 pm Press Release
Remaking American Nursing, addresses a critical part of the health care crisis facing this country as it examines the issues surrounding nursing, including the nurse/patient ratios issues, on-the-job safety concerns, the nursing professor shortage, nurse retention challenges, and how the nationwide nursing shortage now could impact patient care in the future. This NJN original program is hosted by NJN's Emmy Award-winning
Health and Medical Correspondent, Sara Lee
Kessler.The
program includes discussion by a distinguished
panel of New Jersey nursing experts, as well
as a knowledgeable studio audience.
Funding for the program is made possible in part by Johnson and Johnson Campaign for Nursing’s Future. Additional funding for the program and outreach made possible by a grant from the Amgen Foundation, Cooper University Hospital, Atlantic Health, and the Robert Wood Johnson Unversity Hospital.
(*Remaking American Nursing premiered in October 2006 in conjunction with the four-part PBS series, Remaking American Medicine…Health Care for the 21st Century)
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 As many as 98,000 Americans die in hospitals each year of preventable medical errors. One million more are injured. In fact, medical errors kill as many people per year as breast cancer, HIV-AIDS and car accidents. These and other equally startling statistics underscore the chaotic conditions within the American health care system.
Remaking American Medicine . . . Health Care for the 21st Century is a four-part PBS series that explores the quality crisis and the innovative solutions being undertaken by providers, patients and their families to transform the care provided by the institutions upon which we all depend.
The series presents detailed and emotionally engaging profiles of individuals struggling to fix the broken health care system.
Each
program examines critical health care issues
facing Americans today, including patient
safety, medical and medication errors, hospital-acquired
infections, family centered care and effective
management of chronic disease. Rather
than assign blame for the failings in health
care, Remaking American Medicine offers
solutions by showcasing the stories of individuals
and institutions who are working to ensure
better health care for everyone. (more)
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