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The National Quality Forum has approved four additional safe practices that should be used universally in applicable health care settings to reduce the risk of harm. These four include three that affect the outpatient surgical area.
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In this second part of a two-part series on addictions, we discuss the characteristics of drug-impaired employees and give you resources for helping them.
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You have to replace four out of 14 nonclinical patient care coordinators. Because youre in a crunch, you just place your standard ad in the paper and choose the best four people who apply and who can start immediately. Not any more.
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A recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine reported a disturbing finding: In one-third of the cases of retained equipment that were studied, surgical teams failed to count equipment before and after the operations.
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The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) in Denver regularly receives questions from members about their counting procedures. Here are some of the most common, with answers from Ramona Conner, RN, MSN, perioperative nursing specialist at AORN.
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Everyone makes mistakes; but when mistakes are made routinely by home care nurses gathering information for the Outcomes and Assessment Information Set (OASIS), your agencys bottom line is affected.
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Its not unlike studying for an exam. You know that the exam is approaching, and you do some studying to prepare; but its usually at the last minute that you really push yourself to focus on preparation for the exam.
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Help from children keeps elderly parents at home; JCAHO re-approved as hospice accrediting body