Checklists and CPOE: Silver Bullets for Medication Errors?
This is the second day of the week long exploration of care transitions and medication errors. Knowing the importance and vulnerability surrounding care...
10 August, 2011
Masonry
Medication Errors and Transitions of Care-Is there Hope?
I will explore some key causes and solutions to medication errors associated with care transitions using components of Hope Street Group’s analytical model:...
09 August, 2011
Teacher: The Iconic Profession
Going Back to Zero Enough already! As a nation, we generally agree that the teacher is the single most important variable in the education...
08 August, 2011
Should Art Teachers Get Paid the Same as High School Physics Teachers?
While in a meeting with U.S. Department of Education’s Assistant Secretary Peter Cunningham, he posed this question to a group of teachers. I would...
01 August, 2011
Duncan: Teacher Salaries Should Be $60,000 to $150,000
In a speech to Nationally Board Certified teachers, Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, spoke about America’s need to attract and retain highly talented...
30 July, 2011
Size does matter…Class size that is
How does class size affect the abilities of effective teachers? My first year of teaching I sat looking out in a sea of 35...
25 July, 2011
Potential Cuts to Primary Care Training
One of the pillars of Hope Street Group's strategic recommendations to reinvent primary care may have a harder time being realized based on...
20 July, 2011
Walmart — Sourcing Health Care Workers Locally
Walmart changed the pharmaceutical retail industry forever by creating the $4 Prescription Program. In one fell swoop, a gargantuan company disrupted part of...
07 July, 2011
The Real Scoop on The Doctor of Nursing Practice Degree
The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health report compiled by the Committee on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative on the Future...
18 May, 2011