The IRE Resource Center is a major research library containing more than 23,250 investigative stories — both print and broadcast. Add to that more than 3,000 tipsheets from our national conferences on how to cover specific beats or do specific stories and you have a resource that no reporter or editor should be without. These stories and tipsheets are searchable online or by contacting the Resource Center directly (573-882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org) where a researcher can help you pinpoint what you need. Browse or search the tipsheet section of our library below. Logged-in members can view the tipsheets free online:
Search results for "nurses" ...
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Cracking Codes
Learn about datasets that can help localize health stories, including pharmaceutical company spending on doctors, nursing home violations and hospital quality, among others. We will dive into Medicare data and data that local and state reporters can use.
Tags: health data; Medicaid; nursing homes; drugs
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Making Health Data Sexy
Learn about datasets that can help localize health stories, including pharmaceutical company spending on doctors, nursing home violations and hospital quality, among others. We will dive into Medicare data and data that local and state reporters can use.
Tags: Medicare data; nursing home; hospital; pharmaceuticals
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Health Analyses for Any Newsroom
Journalists have a duty to report on the hospitals, nursing homes, doctors, and clinics that provide medical treatment to their viewers, readers, and listeners. Learn tricks of the health reporting trade in this tip sheet.
Tags: Health
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Finding and using health care data
"This tip sheet will direct you to several trustworthy databases about the quality of health care delivered by hospitals, transplant centers and nursing homes."
Tags: data-mining; health care data
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How Well Does Your State Oversee Nurses (and pharmacists, dentists, psychologists...)?
Government oversight can be tricky when it comes to our caregivers. Find out who is overseeing your nurse, and whether or not they are qualified to be evaluating such performances.
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Investigating Caregivers
Roe provides stories and tips on how to cover caregivers. Learn who to talk to, to find out which caregiver, in which state prescribed which drugs.
Tags: caregivers; nursing homes; medicaid; nursing home ratings.
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Tips for Investigating Caregivers
If there is concern over the care given to our elderly, Kissinger will give you the tips in order to investigate thoroughly. Learn who to talk to, to get the answers you need.
Tags: caregivers; nursing homes
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Investigating Hospital Safety
Marshall gives insights into covering hospital safety - from developing sources; paying attention to story tips; covering hospital regulation;
Tags: hospitals; health care; medical care; physicians; doctors; nurses; insurance; pharmaceuticals; drugs; licensing
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Assisted Living Tipsheet
The author discusses how to investigate long term care for the elderly. He explains the difference between nursing homes and assisted living facilities. The tipsheet also suggests documents and sources that will be useful for investigating either type of facility.
Tags: elder care; nusing homes; assisted living; Medicare; Medicaid; 911 calls; inspection reports
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Investigating Senior Issues
This tipsheet suggests several story ideas about issues that affect senior citizens. The authors draw upon their experiences reporting "Bogus Billing" for WPTC and offer suggestions and resources for other reporters interesting in pursuing a story about seniors.
Tags: senior citizens; Medicaid; fraud; assisted living