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An intoxicated, violent patient can bring down morale in an ED and turn a shift into havoc faster than any other patient encounter. This issue of ED Legal Letter will outline risk management strategies aimed at reducing both litigation and stress for the EP and nurse.
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Gynecare Worldwide, a division of Ethicon of Somerville, NJ, has voluntarily withdrawn Gynecare Intergel Adhesion Prevention Solution from the market and is urging customers to immediately stop using this product.
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Why am I waiting so long? Its one comment that staff members always can expect to hear from patients and family members, say experts interviewed by Same-Day Surgery.
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If you dont assess patients preoperatively for severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), you run the risk of spreading the potentially fatal disease in your facility, infectious disease experts warn.
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The Northern Michigan Operating Room Education Network will offer a free webcast on wrong-site or wrong-body part surgery in june.
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Same-day surgery staff members point with pride to their turnover times, numbers of procedures handled during a day, and outstanding clinical outcomes, but patients and their family members notice things such as waiting room reading material, noisy children, and their own hunger.
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This is the second in a two-part series that looks at patient satisfaction scores for freestanding and hospital-based same-day surgery programs. Last month, we looked at overall scores and key issues for all same-day surgery programs. This month, we will look at areas of greatest opportunity for improvement for each type of program.
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20% of respondents to last years Same-Day Surgery Reader Survey said that morale is their most challenging problem, which means morale tied with documentation/paperwork as the second biggest challenge overall.
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Same-day surgery programs accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations will no longer be able to prepare for a specific survey date in the next few years because the Joint Commission will conduct all regular accreditation surveys on an unannounced basis beginning in January 2006.