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Collaboration between key hospital departments is crucial to making sure discharge planning starts at the earliest possible point in the patient encounter, and the latest advances in technology certainly can facilitate the necessary interdepartmental communication.
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A pilot project under way at Arnot Ogden Medical Center in Elmira, NY, is assessing how likely patients are to adhere to their prescribed medication regimen, with the ultimate goal of helping them to become more compliant, says Tina Davis, RN, MS, CNS, senior director of continuum of care.
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When the case management department at University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics implemented a series of initiatives to improve the throughput of patients, the average length of stay for surgical patients dropped from 7.9 days to 4.6 days and overall length of stay dropped from 6.3 days to 5.1 days including all the outliers.
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Gaps in the system are costing you money: the injury that isn’t reported right away; the employee who doesn’t keep a doctor’s appointment; and the supervisor who doesn’t make an effort to find a position for an employee with temporary restrictions.
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The advent of personal digital assistants (PDAs) has been a boon to many in the business and medical worlds, but with the blessings has come a curse for some — a painful, chronic hand injury known as “PDA thumb” or “BlackBerry thumb.
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Employers strongly view occupational health professionals as crucial to employee retention and a healthy financial bottom line, according to results of a study commissioned by the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses.
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When one worker’s choice in perfume is another worker’s trigger for an allergic reaction, does the Americans with Disabilities Act apply?
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Mayo Clinic ophthalmologists have found commercially available Class 3A green laser pointers, commonly used in the construction industry and by architects to point out details of structures in daylight, can cause visible harm to the eye’s retina with exposures as short as 60 seconds.
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Data on many work-related illnesses and injuries are being missed because health care providers are failing to get good occupational histories, according to a director at NIOSH.
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Return to work can be challenging for any recovering or rehabilitating worker, but helping a new mother adjust to being back at work can require an occupational health nurse to be especially creative and understanding.