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What U.S. Healthcare Workers Learned From the Ebola Crisis
With a global pandemic still posing a serious threat to American lives, frontline providers must prepare and drill constantly to protect themselves and the public health.
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Outpatient Surgery on Steroids
Feeding on chum-churned water, vendors are adding to the mix the availability of lower cost for the necessary equipment to perform a growing list of procedures outside the mothership. While the mainstream vendors are slow to lower costs, the secondary markets are jumping in with both feet to capture a piece of the expanding pie.
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Tips for Preventing Staff Stress, Burnout
Leaders can take various steps to prevent employees’ healthy stress from turning into counterproductive, or even destructive, stress and burnout.
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Preventing Nurse Burnout Starts with Understanding Causes
There are multiple factors that can contribute to nurse stress and burnout, including job frustration and overwork, poor work-life balance, substance use issues, emotional/family problems, and workplace bullying.
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It Takes an ASC to Cultivate Moral Resilience in Staff
The American Nurses Association recently published a draft call to action on cultivating moral resilience as an antidote to nurses’ and other clinicians’ 'moral suffering and distress.'
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Pharmacist Offers Tips on How ASCs Can Prevent Drug Diversion
Amid a nationwide opioid epidemic, ASCs are not immune to problems related to misuse of controlled substances. Drug diversion should be a chief concern.
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CMS Makes Regulatory Changes; ASCs Might Benefit From Trend
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposed several surgery payment changes in recent months, suggesting that Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price is following through on his stated goals of rolling back regulatory burdens for doctors.
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FDA Chief: ‘We Are Entering a New Frontier in Medical Innovation’
Agency greenlights groundbreaking gene therapy tool to help fight the war against cancer.
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Is This 4:1 Flutter?
The rhythm in the figure was diagnosed as atrial flutter with 4:1 AV conduction. Do you agree? How would you confirm your answer?
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Clinical Briefs
In this section: treating hypothyroidism in seniors; revisiting penicillin allergies; and new diverticulitis guidance.