AssistGuide Closes $900,000 Round of Funding; Digital Island Founder, Ron Higgins, Leads Group of Prominent Hawaii Investors.
HONOLULU -- AssistGuide Inc. ( http://www.assistguide.com/ ), a leading provider of Internet tools exclusively serving senior, long term health care and disability-related businesses, today announced that Ron Higgins, founder and former chairman and chief executive officer of Digital Island, is the lead investor in a Series A Preferred round...

Transplant diary.
Organ transplantation is for many recipients a life saving procedure, with excellent long term survival possible. However, following transplantation morbidities such as infection, rejection, bone disease, malignancy and cardiovascular disease mean that many patients do not return to a pre-illness state of health, rather they must assume a new...

Resuscitating a bad patient.
RD, a seventy-year old man, fell in his home several weeks ago and did not receive assistance for four days, causing pressure sores to develop on his body. He also has multiple chronic illnesses, including diabetes, hypertension, obstructive pulmonary disease, and dementia. After judging him too weak to care...

Comparing outcomes of persons choosing consumer-directed or agency-directed personal assistance services.
For many in the disability community, rehabilitation counseling is increasingly tied to reimbursement systems through which persons with disabilities are able to optimize their value to society in collaborative and facilitative ways. Counseling can help the client consider many choices, not just those using a one size fits all...

Handbook of Asian aging.
089503316X Handbook of Asian aging. Ed. by Hyunsook Yoon and Jon Hendricks. Baywood Publishing Co. 2006 512 pages $74.50 Hardcover HQ1064 As in the rest of the world, Asia is experiencing...

Notes from the Board of Nursing Program Coordinator.
LNA Education Programs: Among the things you didn't learn in school may be that there are 45 Board of Nursing approved Licensed Nursing Assistant (LNA) education programs in Vermont. The programs can be found throughout the state in a variety of settings--from hospitals, long term care facilities (LTCF), and...

Putting the consumer first: an introduction and overview.
If anything best describes recent trends in the complex world of long-term care (LTC), it is the growth of interest and investment in home and community-based services (HCBS). Various forces have driven efforts to shift from disproportionate investment in nursing homes to a more diversified set of institutional and...

MSU begins Clinical Nurse Leader graduate option.
Montana State University at Bozeman began the fall semester with a new graduate track. The Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) option prepares nurses for clinical leadership in all health care settings, to implement outcomes-based practice and quality improvement strategies, and manage microsystems of care. CNLs are master's prepared nurses with...

Add these valuable resources to your CLNC library.
Textbooks Anatomy and Physiology Standring, Susan. Gray's Anatomy: The Anatomical Basis of Clinical Practice, 39th Edition. New York: Churchill Livingstone, 2004. Cardiology Fuster, Valentin, et al. Hurst's The Heart, Eleventh Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004. Gravlee, Glenn P., et...

Long-term care in the USA: lessons for New Zealand?
Abstract The USA and New Zealand have different health and social care systems, but both share a desire for high-quality, affordable, long-term care for elders. In the USA moves have been made to integrate long-term care services within single capitated providers to provide clients with a seamless,...