Dipl. Pflegewirtin, RN Iris Meyenburg-Altwarg

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Biography

A veteran expert in nursing education, Iris has been a consultant for numerous projects and part of ENDA, WANS and STTI. After leaving her senior position at the Education & Training Academy at MHH (Germany), she now runs Com-P-Tense, an independent consultancy.

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Director and Shareholder Com-P-Tense Germany GmbH

President European Nurse Directors Association (ENDA)

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2021 19 Mar

Competency: Is It the Wonder ‘Drug’? Part 2

In the first part of this article (Berger et al. 2021), we started by defining competency and then discussed burnout, competency acquisition and the link between competency and retention. We also did a comparison between Europe and the United States....

2021 15 Feb

2021: Reset or Not?

As we move into 2021, and as the second wave of COVID-19 continues to rage, HealthManagement.org asked healthcare experts what they anticipate as the most significant change this year and what they would like to see in the future. Read on for a snapshot...

2020 11 Aug

Night Service in the Intensive Care Unit of a University Hospital

This article draws attention to the extensive range of tasks and the stresses and strains during night duty in intensive care units. To this end, the range of activities of night duty nursing staff is presented using the example of the Hannover Medical...

2020 03 Aug

Conception of COVID-19 Auxiliary Hospital from Nursing Management Perspective

The following experience report describes the development of a Personnel Concept in the field of patient medical care for the operation of the COVID-19 Auxiliary Hospital at the Hannover Exhibition Centre. The focus of the challenge was the creation...

2020 11 May

Preparing Staff for Crises

Summary: Staff management during critical times can be and often is very challenging. Therefore, there is a need to learn new processes, acquire new skills/information and use new approaches. A veteran nursing expert talks about how...

2020 29 Jan

2020: Year of the Nurse and the Midwife

Summary: The World Health Organization designated the year 2020 as the ‘Year of the Nurse and the Midwife’ in honour of the 200th birth anniversary of Florence Nightingale. President of the European Nurse Directors Association explains why it is so...

2020 02 Jan

2020: Year of the Nurse and the Midwife

This New Year is significant for World Health as the World Health Organization (WHO) designated the year 2020 as the ‘Year of the Nurse and the Midwife’ in honour of the 200 th birth anniversary of Florence Nightingale. World Health...

2019 13 Nov

Resilience: The Airbag for Nurses and Other Healthcare Professions

Summary: Instilling an attitude of resilience in healthcare staff allows them to meet their challenges and effectively recover from setbacks. Every healthcare provider has to face a number of stresses and difficult situations when providing...

2019 26 Aug

Nurses and Cutting-Edge Technology

Summary: Modern nursing is a multi-layered field of work with increasing work density and complexity, which requires a high level of competence, resilience and commitment from the nursing staff. In numerous professional situations, nursing...

2019 22 May

Nursing on the Move: cross-border hiring

Addressing pitfalls and best practice examples for successful hiring Is it possible and feasible to successfully hire and integrate nurses from abroad into a relatively conservative environment? As a follow up to my previous article...

2019 22 Feb

Nursing on the move: cross border hiring

Addressing obstacles for successful hiring How to navigate the multiple challenges involved in making a cross-border nursing hire a success. People have always moved from their home countries to other countries in order to settle...

COVID-19 News

Clinical Importance and Biochemical Role of iMg in Cardiovascular Disease, Diabetes, and COVID-19

Speakers K. Kisters, MD Med Clinic I, St. Anna Hospital, ESH Excellence Centre Herne, Germany Taylor Wallace, PhD Think Healthy Group, Washington, DC, USA; Department of Nutrition and Food Studies, George Mason University, Find Nova Biomedical On Social Media Read more

Poland: Yes, We Will Use J&J Vaccine!

The Polish government has announced that 120 000 units of Johnson&Johnson vaccine arrived in Poland on Wednesday. Despite reports of rare blood clotting in some recipients, the vaccine will be used. The European Medicines Agency approved the vaccine for use in the European Union last month. However, the Health Minister Adam Niedzielski confirmed... Read more

Advantech Connect Online Partner Conference to Promote Edge-to-Cloud Partnerships & AIoT Solutions

Advantech , a leading provider of advanced IoT intelligence systems, is excited to launch its Advantech Connect Online Partner Conference, an online partner conference for global partners, focusing on the theme “Edge-to-Cloud Partnerships Enable Smart City Services with AIoT (Artificial Intelligence of Things)”. The conference sessions will be livestreamed... Read more

Communities

Break Through Your Workflow Barriers With 3DQuorum™. Our Highest Resolution 3D™ Imaging, Faster

At Hologic , we understand the importance of reducing imaging interpretation time, especially during a time when you might be facing with a backlog in breast cancer screening appointments. We are therefore very pleased to introduce 3DQuorum breast imaging technology. Designed to expedite Hologic Clarity™ HD high-resolution 3D... Read more

Accelerate Detection With The 3DQuorum™, The Ultimate Breast Tomosynthesis Technology

Hologic is pleased to introduce 3DQuorum Imaging Technology to the Breast Health Continuum of Care. Designed to provide radiologists with fewer, thicker tomosynthesis slices to review, 3DQuorum uses Genius AI™- powered analytics to reconstruct high-resolution 3D mammography data to produce 6mm SmartSlices, with 70-micron pixel resolution.... Read more

Hologic Announces Commitment to Tackling Breast Cancer Screening Disparities for Black Women

Initiative includes awareness campaign featuring Mary J. Blige and funding for screening and diagnostic services at approximately 15 U.S. facilities Hologic, Inc. , an innovative medical technology company primarily focused on improving women’s health, today announced a multi-year commitment to decreasing breast cancer screening disparities for... Read more

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Advantech Connect Online Partner Conference to Promote Edge-to-Cloud Partnerships & AIoT Solutions

Masimo Announces FDA Clearance of Radius PCG™ for Root® Patient Monitoring & Connectivity Platform

Masimo (NASDAQ: MASI) announced today that Radius PCG™, a portable real-time capnograph with wireless Bluetooth® connectivity, has received FDA 510(k) clearance. Radius PCG connects with the Root® Patient Monitoring and Connectivity Platform to provide seamless, tetherless mainstream capnography for patients of all ages. Radius PCG joins the growing... Read more

Hologic Receives Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award

Hologic, Inc. , a global leader in women's health, has been named a winner of the 2021 Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award, the Company announced today. This prestigious award recognizes the most engaged workplace cultures in the world. Hologic has been on a six-year journey to create a culture of high engagement by focusing on developing talent,... Read more

Break Through Your Workflow Barriers With 3DQuorum™. Our Highest Resolution 3D™ Imaging, Faster

AGFA-DELL Partnership: Hardware Solutions for Storage Boost Clinician Efficiency

To provide our Enterprise Imaging customers with powerful hardware solutions for storage, retrieval security, Agfa HealthCare has partnered with DELL Technologies. Mike Benol, Vice President Strategic Partnerships, Agfa HealthCare North America and Miriam Ladin, Director of Marketing and Communications, Agfa HealthCare North America, recently spoke... Read more

1,000+ Peer Reviewed Publications Confirm Trust In Most Popular Finger Blood Pressure Method

We are happy to announce that to date our CNAP® technology for monitoring continuous blood pressure and hemodynamics has reached the magic mark of over 1,000 peer-reviewed publications. Our customers use CNAP® to collect data in over 100 studies and many more advanced research projects per year. Utilizing a simple finger sensor CNAP® provides a... Read more

New Fluoroscopy System From Siemens Healthineers Combines Industry-Leading Fluoroscopy & Radiography

Journées Francophones de Radiologie Diagnostique & Interventionnelle 2020 (JFR), Paris Not for publication in the USA LUMINOS Lotus Max1 offers a high level of clinical versatility and automation Automatically reduces radiation dose without compromising results Highest cyber security standards protect patient data, for example... Read more

Patient’s Moment Has Arrived

It is clear that the COVID-19 crisis has been a boost in the digitisation of healthcare, as it is estimated that we have advanced almost seven years in digitisation in just three years. Many medical centres have chosen to digitise conventional processes of patient care, medical appointments and results delivery, performing virtual consultations... Read more

Movers & Shakers

New AMA President: Dr Susan Bailey

The 175th president of the American Medical Association (AMA), Dr Susan Bailey , was sworn in remotely during a virtual Special Meeting of the AMA House of Delegates on 7 June. An allergist in private practice, for more than three decades she has been with Fort Worth Allergy and Asthma Associates. Dr Bailey has been active in the AMA since... Read more

Oliver Reichardt, RCR‘s New Chief Executive

As of May 4, Oliver Reichardt is new Chief Executive of t he UK’s Royal College of Radiologists ( RCR ), s ucceeding Andrew Hall. Prior to the current appointment, Reichardt, a charity and business change expert, worked with business productivity campaign Be The Business as Interim Director of Strategic Partnerships. His varied... Read more

Dr. Sebastian Krolop appointed Chief Operating & Strategy Officer of HIMSS

Dr. Sebastian Krolop, M.D., Ph.D., M. Sc. has recently been appointed the Chief Operating & Strategy Officer (COSO) of HIMSS. In his role as COSO, Sebastian is now accountable for working across the organisation to coordinate operational goals and design with HIMSS’s strategic plan. Sebastian leads HIMSS Analytics and HIMSS Media operations. He... Read more

Dr. Paul Wischmeyer earns prestigious FASPEN award

The American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN) has elected Duke Anesthesiology’s Paul Wischmeyer, MD, an honorary fellow. The FASPEN award is one of ASPEN’s highest honors as a society. It recognizes Dr. Wischmeyer’s exceptional achievement in practice and his research contributions to the clinical nutrition field, as well as his... Read more

John Ormiston Awarded the EuroPCR 2017 Ethica Award

The 2017 Ethica Award, the highest honour of the European cardiovascular intervention academies, was presented to John Ormiston, New Zealand’s most experienced interventional cardiologist. The Ethica Award celebrates people who have made an outstanding contribution to interventional patient care. J. Ormiston had not been expecting to receive the... Read more

Gamma Medica Bolsters Executive Team to Support Fight Against Breast Cancer

Gamma Medica, a leader in molecular breast imaging (MBI) technology, announced that Philip M. Croxford has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer. The company also named Scott Headland as its new Vice President of Sales. These executive changes align with Gamma Medica’s focus on commercialising its unique breast imaging technology for improved cancer... Read more

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