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Perioperative Education Consultants

Through her business as a perioperative education consultant, Florence Petersen:

  • Provides onsite continuing education courses for nurses and allied health personnel;
  • Provides continuing and in-service education on behalf of the medical industry;
  • Contracts as a consultant faculty member for seminars.
      

The field of perioperative care continues to change as do all areas of nursing. Nurses must keep up with these changes in order to provide the best possible care to patients. The mission of Florence Petersen’s consulting business is to provide continuing education programs to nurses and allied health personnel working in the perioperative care setting. She specifically targets ambulatory surgery centers; physician-owned surgery centers; and diagnostic centers. Her business also targets those in medical industry companies and provides continuing education on their behalf.

 

Because she takes the education programs to the facilities, the facility administration can schedule participation by the entire nursing staff and allied health personnel of the facility.

 

All courses are currently one or two hours in length. Most are available for continuing education contact hours. For more informaiont, contact Florence Petersen. She will develop a program to meet the needs of your facility and staff. 
 


 

Medical News

Q&A: Electronic medical records (BBC News)
Doctors' unions complain that England's medical records database is being pushed through too fast, with details sometimes being uploaded without patients' knowledge. What are the issues?

Early Glance: Medical Devices companies (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
NEW YORK (AP) -- Shares of some top medical devices companies are mixed at 10 a.m.: Abbott Labs rose $.18 or .3 percent, to $54.98. Allergan rose $1.19 or 1.9 percent, to $62.54. Bard fell $.05 or .1 percent, to $83.13. Baxter fell $.12 or .2 percent, to $58.86. Boston Scientific fell $.03 or .4 percent, to $7.71. Hospira rose $.31 or .6 percent, to $53.84. Johnson & Johnson rose $.29 or .4 ...

Few Studies Compare the Efficacy of Medical Treatments (Scientific American)
The forward momentum of medical progress is manifest, it could be argued, in the $50 billion spent in 2008 on pharmaceutical research and development in the quest to bring new drugs to market. But little scientific or governmental infrastructure exists to ensure that each new treatment is actually an improvement over existing therapies--and to tease out what therapies are best for which patients ...

Senators probe Select Medical after report (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
The U.S. Senate Finance Committee is seeking information from long-term care hospital operator Select Medical Holdings Corp after a New York Times report raised concerns about patient care, the committee said on Tuesday.

Woman who called 911 for medical issue says she was denied aid (Washington Post)
A Northwest Washington woman said Tuesday that D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services personnel refused to take her to a hospital in December after she complained of breathing problems, and authorities said they are looking into the matter.

Call to halt NHS medical database (BBC News)
Doctors leaders urge ministers to halt the development of a medical records database for patients in England.

Comfort medical ship leaving Haiti, against doctors' wishes (Baltimore Sun)
The hospital ship USNS Comfort left Port-au-Prince harbor Tuesday night to begin a five-day sail back to Baltimore, its Navy commanders having determined - against the advice of some civilian doctors on the ground - that the floating medical center is no longer needed in earthquake -damaged Haiti.

Medical records lost after error (BBC News)
A case of mistaken identity reveals serious concerns over the way the NHS transfers medical records, BBC Scotland can reveal.

Dual degrees program expands for Mayo Medical School students (Post-Bulletin)
A successful dual degree program in medicine and law for Mayo Medical School students has led Mayo Clinic to expand the program significantly for the coming fall.

Patients' Medical Records Go Online Without Consent, Doctors Warn (The Huffington Post)
Patients' confidential medical records are being placed on a controversial NHS database without their knowledge, doctors' leaders have warned.
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