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When emergency responders transport an incoming patient who is later found to have a potentially life-threatening disease, they need to receive prompt notification from the hospital about the exposure risk. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has proposed a list of the diseases for which hospitals must notify the emergency medical services.
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Health care workers at public hospitals are at much greater risk of injury than workers at private hospitals, according to new data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics.
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The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration is putting the brakes on its push for new regulations.
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The first step toward building a new safety culture may be taking stock of the one you've already got. Do your employees believe that managers care about employee safety? Do they feel comfortable alerting managers to hazards? Do they use personal protective equipment when it's recommended?
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On January 18, OSHA administrator David Michaels, PhD, MPH, gave a speech to the advocacy group Public Citizen in Washington, DC. Here is what he had to say about an Injury and Illness Prevention Program rule:
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Business groups raised an uproar over proposed changes in the interpretation of the noise protection rule, and the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration heard them.
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How's this for a turnaround? A few years ago, patient satisfaction levels in the three EDs of the Cambridge (MA) Health Alliance were in the lowest decile in Massachusetts, and now they are consistently in the top quartile.
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The National Quality Forum (NQF) has endorsed four outcome-based mental health measures looking at depression and patient satisfaction in an inpatient psychiatric hospital stay.
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According to Craig Luzinski, MSN, RN, NEA-BC, FACHE, chief nursing officer at Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins, CO, the hospital received the American Nurses Association (ANA) NDNQI (National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators) Award for Outstanding Nursing Quality for the fourth consecutive year.
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Michelle Buckman, RN, MSN, is a psychiatric clinical nurse specialist working as a consultant to the Loma Linda University Medical Center emergency department.