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Hospitals have been placed on notice: They must address the hazards of workplace violence.
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After a homicide occurs in a workplace, co-workers often make statements such as "I never thought it could happen here," or "He just snapped."
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A Connecticut beer distributor employee shot and killed eight of his coworkers before taking his own life after a disciplinary hearing. An ex-employee of a Georgia truck rental business killed two employees and injured three others. A 25-year employee at a Missouri plant shot and killed three and wounded five before shooting himself.
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Hospitals are not the "safe havens" they once were. That is the cautionary message of a recent Sentinel Event Alert by the Joint Commission accrediting body, which focuses on attacks on patients.
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In a Sentinel Event Alert, The Joint Commission offered the following recommendations for reducing the risk of violence in hospitals:
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Social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace continue to be a tricky problem for health care risk managers, who need to ensure that employees do not violate patient privacy even when off duty but also must avoid violating the personal rights of those employees. Failing to address the situation adequately could mean a HIPAA violation or damage to the provider's reputation, but using too heavy a hand could run afoul of labor laws.
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The ECG shown above was obtained from a 50-year-old woman with "skipped beats." Is there anything unusual about these ectopic beats and the effect that they have on the normal beats in this tracing? What happens at the onset of the last lead change (i.e., at the onset where we see leads V4,V5,V6)?
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More than three-fourths of men have some degree of male pattern hair loss by age 70. The unwanted hair loss seen in male pattern hair loss is stimulated by dihydrotestosterone.
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Replacing saturated fatty acids with carbohydrates with low glycemic index values is associated with a lower risk of myocardial infarction.