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Education alone will not boost your influenza vaccination rates, but a dogged campaign that includes declination statements can produce higher rates.
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This past winter, influenza vaccine expert Gregory Poland, MD, director of the Mayo Vaccine Research Group at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, got the flu. Yes, he had the flu vaccine. But this year, the vaccine was not a good match with the prevailing strains.
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OR nurses want to clear the air in the operating room. The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) in Denver issued a position statement in April urging hospitals and other health care providers to reduce exposure to surgical smoke and bio-aerosols released in laser and electrosurgical procedures.
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In a campaign that earned it the prestigious Ernest Amory Codman Award from The Joint Commission, Christiana Care Health Services of Wilmington, DE, reduced the mortality rate for patients with severe sepsis from 61.7% to 30.2%.
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A new psych unit, located within about 100 feet of the main ED at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, TN, has freed up precious bed hours while improving staff and patient satisfaction.
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While the creators of the Psychiatric Transition Unit at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, TN, could find no pre-existing models to emulate, the successful unit they created may now serve as a model for other EDs.
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In a warehouse owned by Fort Lauderdale, FL-based Broward Health, teams of nurses, physicians, and techs from the EDs at Coral Springs Medical Center and Imperial Point Medical Center, both in Fort Lauderdale, recently toured mock emergency treatment rooms as the final stage of preparation for construction of the new EDs at those Broward Health facilities.
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