 |
||||||||||
| Volume 24 • No. 5 • MAY 2000 --9 | ||||||||||
A
Novel Thought?
Response prepared to national medical errors report Hospital's join forces to balance budget How
attitudes toward pain can influence its effect
|
||||||||||
 |
||||||||||
| - Volunteer clown Allan Rosenberg, a retired psychiatrist and former medical staff member, and troubadour Homero Oyarce have been contributing to patient - as well as staff - morale. Jeanne Kennedy, director of Community and Patient Relations, says that Oyarce is often called on to sing to terminally ill, as well as other patients. Kennedy notes that humor, such as that conveyed by Papa the Clown (Rosenberg) and his puppet Rodney (center) is becoming an increasing part of the healing process in hospitals. Sometimes Papa, Rodney and Oyarce entertain families together. Oyarce has strolled the hospital for several years, while Rosenberg joined the team a year ago. | ||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||
 |
||||||||||
| Web
Design:
Tyler Holland Joanna McClean MacWorks Graphics Studio |
||||||||||
| - Residents, a large segment of the ultimate "end users" of Physician Order Entry (POE), are helping to ensure the system works effectively for all doctors when it "goes live" this fall at Stanford Hospital and Clinics. Attending a resident focus group in April are Stephen Ryu, neurosurgery (left) and Chris Chon, urology. At the sessions, residents view and use the system, sharing comments and suggestions with the project team. Some of the topics discussed at the sessions in March and April included how to shift order sets from the paper to the electronic world, the logic driving the cataloging of nursing orders, and the "intuitiveness" of the screens from which orders will be placed. The residents receive either lunch or gift certificates for attending the mid-day sessions designed to help their colleagues. House staff members should contact Margy Olmstead at 650 498-4178 if interested in attending the upcoming sessions. | ||||||||||
 |
||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
