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Generating productivity numbers on patient education programs, classes, and materials is not a worthless activity. Patient education managers have learned the data are valuable for a variety of reasons.
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A national health observance day, week, or month is a good opportunity for local community outreach, says Valerie Eldred, RN, community health representative at Winter Haven (FL) Hospital.
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Are staff at your facility skeptical that surveyors from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations really will ask them the questions during your next survey?
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Under current federal regulations, manufacturers can state that they comply with the ASTM standards but cannot label the boxes with the level of antigenic and total protein. The proposed rule sets maximum allowable protein levels of 1,200 mcg per dm2 and requires labeling of protein content.
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Identification of patients at high risk of, or with documented Mycobacterium tuberculosis disease is to occur at the earliest point in the health care encounter. Avoiding delays in such identification will reduce potential staff and patient exposure to TB.
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Here are some frequent questions and answers about needle safety compliance provided by the Safety Institute of Premier Inc., an alliance of 1,700 nonprofit hospitals and health systems based in Oak Brook, IL. More information is available on the Premier web site at www.premierinc.com/safety.
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Early in the AIDS epidemic, public health officials thought that poppers, a popular party inhalant used by gay men, might be a cause of the disease. When AIDS was proven to be caused by an infectious agent, most people dismissed poppers as having no relevance to HIV. Now, more than 20 years later, research continues to show a strong link between the use of poppers and HIV risk behaviors.
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AIDS has been the No. 1 cause of death among African-American women, ages 25-34, in the United States, and its one of the top causes for African-American women ages 20 to 44, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Moreover, African-American womens share of AIDS cases has been growing steadily in the past decade, and now women represent one-third of all new AIDS cases reported among African-Americans, the CDC data show.
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Investigators have found a disturbing trend of increased levels of sexual risk behavior among a small, little-studied group: Asian/Pacific Islander (API) men who have sex with men (MSM). Sexual risk behavior among this group has increased at a faster rate than with white MSM. This includes increases in unprotected anal intercourse with multiple partners, which rose from 12% in 1999 to 20% in 2002, compared with an increase from 19% to 20% in white MSM.
