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Employee Health Must Navigate Conflict Between State And Federal Marijuana Laws
Evolving state laws regarding the legal use of marijuana mean that healthcare providers’ existing policies on drug use should be reviewed to ensure they do not violate labor laws or provide an opportunity for civil litigation, while still ensuring patient safety, experts say.
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‘All Hazards’ Training Must Include All HCWs
As with natural disaster planning, preparing for infectious disease outbreaks must prioritize protection and accommodations for healthcare workers if facilities expect to remain open for business.
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New York Safe Lifting Law Could Be Model For Other States
A New York state law now in effect requires healthcare facilities to establish safe patient lifting programs that include the formation of committees, risk assessments and purchase of devices.
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A History Of Violence: One Nurse’s Story
OSHA has formally initiated rulemaking for a regulation to protect healthcare workers from rampant violence perpetuated by patients and visitors. As a result, healthcare workers are coming forth with horrific accounts of violent attacks.
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Enough Is Enough: OSHA To Issue Regulation On Violence
Taking the first step in what is likely to be a protracted political struggle, OSHA recently announced it will promulgate a federal regulation to protect healthcare workers from a shocking epidemic of violence.
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How to Improve the Quality of Case Management Departments through Staffing, Part 2
This month, we will discuss some new and creative ways to use the staffing within a case management department.
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Ethical Implications of Burdensome Readmissions
Dual eligibility for Medicare and Medicaid is associated with lower 30-day readmission rates in patients enrolled in a hospice program, found a recent study.
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Researchers Propose Approach to Identify Quality Measures for Ethics
While there is a great deal of diverse literature on clinical ethics consultation, it has never been looked at through the specific lens of quality measurement.
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Ethicists are Seeing More Complicated Cases
Ethicists at Memorial Medical Center were seeing increasingly complicated cases extending over longer time frames, and created a tool to determine complexity of cases.
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VHA Uses Comprehensive Approach to Ethics Evaluation
Is an ethics consultant highly qualified and able to demonstrate his or her knowledge with an impressive portfolio of cases?