Articles Tagged With: nurses
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Legislation Aims to Curb U.S. Suicide Rates
Millions of dollars would be allocated toward training emergency healthcare workers to recognize high-risk patients.
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Expansive Survey Reveals Possible Sea Change in American Nursing
The next decade will be filled with many challenges, testing nurses’ resilience.
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Kill the Bug, Hurt the Worker
Powerful cleaning and disinfectant products are being deployed in hospitals to eradicate dangerous pathogens on environmental surfaces. Both spore-forming Clostridioides difficile and an emerging fungal strain of Candida auris require strong sporicidals to be eradicated from the hospital environment. Yet the price of protecting the patient is being exacted on healthcare workers who may have serious complications after repeated exposure to these chemicals in disinfectants.
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AORN Releases Updated Guideline Regarding Team Communication
Communication breakdowns can be a factor in patients’ adverse events, data show.
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AORN Offers Safe Patient Handling Guidance
Perioperative nurses often sustain musculoskeletal injuries from lifting and moving patients. This is a problem that poses even more risks in a society with an obesity epidemic.
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Suicide and Religious Service Attendance
Women who report regular attendance at religious services have a lower suicide rate than those who report not attending services at all.
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Nurse Input Undervalued in Patient Safety
Nurses are an “underused resource” for improving patient safety, according to a recently published study.
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Nurses Take the Lead with Improvement Projects
Sometimes it takes those on the front line to really bring change to a hospital, and critical care nurses at seven Washington hospitals have proven so with quality improvement projects that reduced communication-related medical errors by 80% and catheter infections by 92%.
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More nurses, hospitalists being sued for malpractice, studies say
Separate reports indicate that nurses and hospitalists are being sued for malpractice more than in the past.
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Saving Money with Surgical First Assistants
Increasingly, outpatient surgeons are adding surgical first assistants as a tool to shorten their procedure times and add more cases.