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Tips to Improve Informed Consent Process
ASCs can ensure best practices in the informed consent process through knowing state laws and ensuring patients fully understand the procedure, along with its risks and expected outcomes.
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When Obtaining Informed Consent, Focus on Everyone’s Role in the Process
Obtaining patients’ informed consent is the physician’s responsibility, but the process is more than just a signature on a page.
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Staff Should Lead Culture of Caring Initiative
One of the most effective ways to prevent bullying is to create a culture of caring in a healthcare setting, including ASCs. This process calls for identifying key stakeholders and asking them to work on creating a healthy work environment initiative. The goal is to establish a culture of regard in which staff treat each other positively.
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Your ASC Is Bully-Free? Think Again
Identifying bullying between nurses and others in a healthcare setting is not as simple as recognizing bullying on high school dramedies. Such behavior in healthcare can be less visible and ambiguous to observers and even to those experiencing it — at least at first.
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Bullying Among Nurses, Other Healthcare Workers Harms Workplace Culture
Bullying in healthcare settings is ubiquitous, particularly episodes involving nurses, according to research and government data. Ambulatory surgery centers and other organizations can reduce workplace bullying by focusing on what creates a culture that allows bullying to flourish.
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Stroke: The Subtle, Atypical, and Enigmatic
This article will explore the subtle and enigmatic presentations of stroke. These patients often will present with nonspecific symptoms, such as vision problems, headache, a subtle language deficit, dizziness, or amnesia.
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Episode 16: Nurses’ Social Media Missteps Can Harm Patients – and the Profession
Careless or inappropriate social media use by nurses can harm patients, derail careers, and besmirch the profession. In this episode, Georgia Reiner, risk specialist for the Nurses Service Organization in the healthcare division of Aon Affinity insurance services, explains what nurses and healthcare leaders can do to avoid social media pitfalls. -
Are the Changes Acute?
Imagine the ECG in the figure was obtained from a previously healthy, middle-aged man who presented to an ambulatory clinic for “indigestion.” How might one interpret the ECG?
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Caplacizumab-yhdp for Injection (Cablivi)
Caplacizumab-yhdp is indicated for the treatment of acquired thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura in combination with plasma exchange and immunosuppressive therapy.
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Homeless Population Requires Hepatitis A Vaccination
A multistate outbreak of hepatitis A virus (HAV) infection in the homeless and/or drug-using population has prompted the United States Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices to add “homelessness” as an indication for HAV vaccination. This is in addition to existing indications for HAV vaccination of men who have sex with men and illicit drug users (with the exception of marijuana use).