Sandra Amador, ARNP, Medical Surgical Nurse with Baptist Hospital of Miami, explains nosocomial infections are the infections acquired in the hospital setting. She says for the nursing staff, and for the healthcare team, it is very important to have a designated person to take decisions if the patient is not able to do it if […]

Manager of Care Coordination with West Kendall Baptist Hospital

A crisis intervention team assesses more formally a patient who has depression problems. This team is composed of psychiatrists and primary care doctors. Primary care physicians get the best type of assessments from mental health professionals for depression patients, explains Dr. Melissa Franco, Family Medicine Physician with Baptist Health Primary Care. Yanira Ruidiaz, Social Worker […]

NICHE program helps nurses in order people to have best results in older patient care, as well as to know signs and symptoms that should be searched for. Lisette Hurtado, RN, Patient Care Nurse Manager with Baptist Hospital of Miami, affirms the nurses take an extensive core curriculum with the intention of specializing the care. […]