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Crisis Pregnancy Centers Often Deliver Coercive, Inaccurate Information
People seeking help with a pregnancy decision may see ads for a free pregnancy test and ultrasound and believe they are visiting a medical clinic, where all of their options will be explored. Instead, they will soon discover that they are visiting a center with no licensed medical providers that is designed to convince them not to seek an abortion.
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Bias-Free Reproductive Health Counseling Can Improve Patient Autonomy
Counseling patients on their contraception choices has always been difficult, but the stakes are higher now in the post-Roe era. New research about provider bias and empowering women to make their own decisions suggests ways to improve contraception counseling.
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Cultural Humility and Other Training for Contraceptive Care Providers
Reproductive health providers might believe they provide unbiased contraceptive counseling, but research shows that this is not always the case. A recent study revealed that providers who said they embraced patient-centered care had used negotiating, withholding information, and delaying tactics to prevent patients from removing an IUD early.
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Suggestions for Teaching Staff How to Counsel Without Bias, Persuasion
Research helps inform training tactics for reproductive health staff on providing contraceptive counseling in a way that patients perceive is unbiased and with cultural humility. These methods can establish trust with patients and improve contraceptive care.
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OSHA Violence Prevention Draft Reg Gathers Momentum
Making slow but steady progress on an intractable problem, OSHA is expected to issue a violence prevention draft standard for healthcare in 2023. The need for regulation is compelling, particularly since violence in healthcare is notoriously underreported.
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Predicting Violence in the Individual Patient
Is it possible to assess whether a patient is a risk for committing an act of violence? An occupational health consultant in Oregon thinks the evidence strongly supports the efficacy of patient assessment tools, and more hospitals should be using them.
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ACEP Survey: Emergency Departments Under Siege
In a recent survey, two-thirds of emergency physicians reported a patient assaulted them in the past year, and more than one-third of respondents said they have been attacked more than once. The survey by ACEP revealed 31% of assaults involved a family member or friend of the patient.
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Using Technology to Alleviate HCW Stress, Strengthen Resiliency
As healthcare worker stress and burnout spiked during the pandemic, organizations searched for ways to alleviate the burden, including finding new uses for technology. To help healthcare workers adjust to these significant sources of stress, health systems can build and enhance resiliency.
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Burnout Affects Nearly Half of Nurses, Physicians
Teamwork may be an antidote to burnout in healthcare. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, burnout affected 43% of physicians and nurses. Doctors reported more isolation, according to a recent study. Worse, the pandemic pushed burnout to crisis levels, affecting more than half of all nurses and physicians.
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High Altitude Illness
Some patients love to challenge themselves, seeking new locations and activities, pushing themselves to perform in extreme environments. In this issue, the authors explore the physiology of altitude and the various illnesses encountered by people working and playing in the higher areas of the earth.