Should Nurse Practitioners be Required to Record Immunizations in Immunization Information Systems?

Pro: Should clinical practice be required of nurse faculty?

Emergency nurse practitioners should manage major cases.

have become busier and, paradoxically, the increased workload has been felt most in well-run departments. The increase has been due to: A true rise in the number of cases being seen A greater filtering function performed by the department. The filtering function is time-consuming because it requires doctors requesting Xrays and pathology tests that would have been requested by inpatient staff a...

Immunization Information System and Informatics to Promote Immunizations: Perspective From Minnesota Immunization Information Connection

The vision for management of immunization information is availability of real-time consolidated data and services for all ages, to clinical, public health, and other stakeholders. This is being executed through Immunization Information Systems (IISs), which are population-based and confidential computerized systems present in most US states and territories. Immunization Information Systems offe...

Direct and Electronic Health Record Access to the Clinical Decision Support for Immunizations in the Minnesota Immunization Information System

Immunization information systems (IIS) are population-based and confidential computerized systems maintained by public health agencies containing individual data on immunizations from participating health care providers. IIS hold comprehensive vaccination histories given across providers and over time. An important aspect to IIS is the clinical decision support for immunizations (CDSi), consist...

How much should nurse consultants be paid?

There was no consensus on the issue of how much nurse consultants should be paid among the practitioners we spoke to at last week's UKCC roadshow. Some suggested starting salaries of around £25,000, and others said 'the sky's the limit'.