Articles Tagged With: nursing
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Nurses, Case Managers Describe Life on the Front Lines of COVID-19
Case managers and other nurses are coping with changes in operations, home life, and job descriptions during the COVID-19 pandemic. One of the more striking changes for case managers is the physical separation between them, their patients, and patients’ families.
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Nursing and Medical Students, Residents Unprepared for Ethics Violations
Nursing students were not too happy with how they responded to observed ethics violations, ranging from patient privacy violations to infection control issues, according a recent study. The findings suggest better preparation could be useful.
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Fresh Data on Medical Student, Nurse Attitudes on Medical Assistance in Dying
Nurses play a central role in the process of medical assistance in dying, even if they bear no responsibility for the act itself, according to the authors of a recent study.
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Small changes add up to big benefits for access
Whenever Sarah Thomas, senior director of access systems at Seattle Children’s Hospital, hears a registrar sigh in frustration, she makes a beeline to that employee and asks what’s wrong.
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Defuse hostile nursing work culture by speaking up immediately, directly
Listening to human resources expert Laura MacLeod, LMSW, describe the dysfunctional work cultures she has observed in healthcare and other industries, one is immediately reminded of the truism: “Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets.”
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Nursing Profession: On The Right Path, or Falling Behind?
Significant progress has been made since 2010 in the nursing profession, but work is required for that progress to continue, according to a new report. -
ACO teams with post-acute providers for improved care coordination
As part of its efforts to provide better coordinated care to Medicare beneficiaries at a lower cost, the Michigan Pioneer Accountable Care Organization at Detroit Medical Center has partnered with post-acute providers and works with them face to face to coordinate care and ensure that patients get what they need in a timely manner.
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Increase in public data could prompt litigation against your healthcare facility
The amount of healthcare-related data available to the public is increasing at a rapid pace. Some analysts are concerned that the newly available data could lead to more litigation for healthcare providers.
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Staff fatigue can be a compliance risk, too
Many healthcare leaders don’t realize that, in addition to threatening patient safety, nurse fatigue is also a compliance risk, notes CEO Nick Merkin of Compliagent, a compliance consulting firm in Los Angeles.
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ED patients may be overdosing on meds
If a patient reports taking antibiotics during your medication reconciliation, you may learn these were prescribed for a urinary tract infection or dental work months earlier. "For whatever reason, they didn't take the antibiotics as prescribed, and now they will take a pill whenever they have a sore throat," says Kimberly Barker, BS, RN, CEN, an ED supervisor at St. David's South Austin (TX) Medical Center.