They require electricity, clean water, specialized medical equipment, and specially trained nurses and technicians.
The Nurse-Family Partnership, which links first-time mothers with specially trained nurses, will be the fund's first beneficiary.
Specially trained nurses were made available to the employees by phone and e-mail almost 24 hours a day.
Specially trained nurses from St Thomas' Hospital in London performed a mole count on 17 areas of each person's body.
Specially trained nurses will hand out needles and swabs to users who will sit at one of eight booths, which not only offer privacy but also allow staff members to monitor activity.
Re the Facing Off column "On the Front Line in the O.R.; Can Specially Trained Nurses Safely Administer Anesthesia Without Physician Supervision?" (Jan . 8: I am a registered nurse with 20 years of operating room experience.
No, it's the continued access to specialised care, the imaging facilities, the availability of specially trained nurses and doctors once a patient is out of the hyperacute phase that seem to have made the difference.
Elaine Gelman, a leader in the effort to make it legal in New York for specially trained nurses to prescribe drugs and perform other medical functions previously reserved for doctors, died on Tuesday at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx.
They generated frequent reports to physicians on patients' expected survival and hired specially trained nurses to talk with patients, families, physicians and hospital staff about prognoses, pain control and advance care planning.
Joanne Schmidt is a nurse for the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, in a program called the Nurse-Family Partnership, which matches specially trained nurses with low-income first-time mothers, starting during pregnancy; they meet at the mother's home every week or two until the child's second birthday.
Specially trained nurses are supposed to conduct triage by telephone from home for after-hours medical care.
