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Hospitals Leverage Safety Huddles to Reduce Patient Harm, Drive Culture Change
When executed effectively, safety huddles can be a primary tool for driving effective organizational change, experts note.
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Case Managers Assist With Total Joint Care Transition
A Medicare bundled total joint program has case managers help patients transition from the hospital to a post-acute care or home setting.
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Case Managers Help Total Joint Surgery Program Reach Goals
For an outpatient bundled total joint surgery program, case managers play an important role in helping patients stay healthy post-surgery.
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Strategies to Tie Case Management to Population Health Data
Organizations can employ a number of strategies to improve health outcomes and reduce medical spending when engaged in a population health program.
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Researchers: Sharps Disposable Boxes Not Linked to C. Diff
A new study concludes that, if processed and used properly, reusable sharps containers pose no risk of C. difficile transmission.
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A Healthy Nurse Means a Healthy Nation
The American Nurses Association is challenging those who wear the white to step up and take care of someone else: themselves.
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Surgeons Prevail: Skull Caps Are Back
A recent victory means surgeons can continue to wear their traditional skull caps. A previous recommendation for surgeons to fully cover their hair and ears to prevent infections has been jettisoned for a lack of evidence.
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Legal Matters: Religious Exemptions for Flu Shots
Healthcare facilities enacting flu shot mandates without some effort to reasonably accommodate healthcare workers claiming religious exemption could be open to a lawsuit.
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New Nurses May Struggle With Errors, Injuries
A newly graduated nurse, or even one more experienced who is going through orientation in a new job, may have a higher risk of errors and accidents.
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Lock Down Drugs to Prevent Diversion
Although it is rarely detected, experts tell us that drug diversion by healthcare workers is a rampant and longstanding problem. Locking and securing crash carts and pharmacy supplies on a given unit is critical to prevent drug theft or some form of tampering and substitution.