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New Data Shed Light on Nurses’ Reasons for Applying to Clinical Ethics Residency
A clinical ethics residency for nurses met with strong demand at two academic medical centers.
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Controversy Persists as States, Courts ‘Question, Push Back, and Challenge’ Brain Death Criteria
Guidelines from the American Academy of Neurology were recently endorsed by several organizations as a medical standard for determining brain death, despite a controversial Nevada Supreme Court ruling that casts doubt on this stance.
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Nurse Sues Health System for Firing After Safety Complaints
A hospital and health system in California is facing a lawsuit from a nurse who says she was fired for blowing the whistle on unsafe working conditions that threatened patients and staff.
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Red Light Says ‘Not Now’ for Nurses in Critical Work
There are times when a nurse's full attention is needed for a task that is critical to patient safety. One hospital is using red lights on workstations to indicate that the nurse must not be interrupted.
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Strict Safety Briefings Reduce CAUTIs, CLABSIs, and Falls
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis was experiencing a problem familiar to many hospitals: It could make quality improvements, but had difficulty making those improvements stick, as there was a lack of bedside accountability.
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Employees Face Opioid Overflow in EDs
In data reported from July 2016 through September 2017, the CDC found that ED visits in 45 states showed that opioid overdoses are increasing across all regions.
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Student March Lends Momentum to Healthcare Violence Regulation
Antiviolence efforts to protect healthcare workers have been underway with limited success for years, so the latest federal bill in that regard would normally be seen as another well-intentioned, but ultimately futile, effort. However, things are not normal.
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Occupational Threat to Dental Workers?
Looking over the medical records at a specialty clinic in Virginia, public health investigators have uncovered a cluster of dental workers with a progressive lung disease that appears to be occupationally acquired.
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The Long and Winding Road
Travel nurses who routinely relocate and work at new facilities on an interim basis face some employee health problems unique to their situation. Others are slightly different manifestations of common issues in nursing.
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Johns Hopkins Boosts Employee Health With CDC Scorecard
The CDC’s Worksite Health ScoreCard effectively measures workplace wellness efforts and can highlight areas of needed improvement, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine reported.