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Special Report: Improving Staffing Quality - Expanding use of LPNs boosts staffing flexibility
Hospice of Lancaster County in Lancaster, PA, never hired home health aides and homemakers because when the not-for-profit hospice was founded 25 years ago, hospice managers chose to go a step beyond the minimum requirements.Special Report: Improving Staffing Quality - Improving interdisciplinary teamwork also boosts quality improvement
Staffing continues to be a major issue for hospices and other health care organizations that must face periodic shortages in nursing and other disciplines, as well as cope with high turnover rates.Full January 2005 issue in PDF
Patient Safety Alert
Teaching/learning packets engender culture changeInfluenza in Children: What Emergency Physicians Need to Know This Season
With the media currently focused on vaccine shortages, the emergency physician must be prepared to rationally and scientifically explain diagnostic and therapeutic approaches in children with influenza. The author of this article prepares the ED physician to confidently face the 2004-2005 influenza season.Full December 2004 Issue in PDF
Full December 2004 issue in PDF
2004 Salary Survey Results: No shortage of mandates, but ICP salaries, raises plateau
Infection control professionals had a median salary in the $50,000 to $59,000 range, but many are struggling to get department resources despite an onslaught of regulatory and accreditation requirements, according to the 2004 salary survey by Hospital Infection Control.Abstract & Commentary: Disturbing level of flu resistance to oseltamivir
Oseltamivir treatment of children with influenza A virus infection was associated with the selection of resistant mutants in 18% of cases.ICAAC Highlights: BSIs fell 27% of patients with prosthetic devices
Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections cause a striking level of complications and deaths in patients with prosthetic devices, researchers reported recently at the annual Inter-science Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) in Washington, DC.