Case Management Advisor – January 1, 2018
January 1, 2018
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Nurses, Other HCWs Report High Levels of Sexual Harassment
For the past year, sexual harassment has made headlines, sometimes daily, as celebrities and politicians deal with accusations. Research shows that nurses and other healthcare workers also experience sexual harassment, abuse, and bullying on the job.
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Strategies for Preventing Workplace Sexual Harassment
Healthcare organization leaders can do a great deal to prevent sexual harassment — or, at least, to stop it as soon as it occurs. Sexual harassment prevention starts with an organization’s leadership paying attention and emphasizing the importance of workplace safety.
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Community Finds Unique Ways to Bring Case Management to the Frontier
A care coordination program that uses care facilitators has helped to improve care coordination and reduce ED use among a frontier, or very rural, population.
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Antibiotic Stewardship Requires Hospitalwide Commitment
Hospitals can play an important role in addressing one of the most urgent public health problems today: the misuse and overuse of antimicrobials. An effective antibiotic stewardship program requires significant commitment from top executive levels down to the bedside.
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Evidence That Working ‘Bare Below the Elbows’ Protects Patients
A study using two mannequins and a surrogate DNA marker for Clostridium difficile showed that workers in long sleeves were more likely to contaminate a subsequent patient than workers wearing short sleeves.