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Detailed Charting on Handoffs Stops Legal Finger-Pointing
The ED chart should include a concise summary of the clinical information that was conveyed, a plan for disposition and next steps in care, and a clear transition of care.
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Many ED Malpractice Claims Are Rooted in Poor Communication
Securing buy-in from hospital administrators to make investments to improve patient safety, including handoff communication in the ED, can be challenging. Compelling anecdotes about cases when things went terribly wrong can grab leaders’ attention. Showing hard numbers demonstrates the financial burden of medical malpractice.
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Ethicists Become Involved in Managing Aggressive, Violent Patients
A facility in Vermont created behavior response teams, with ethicists playing a major role in collaboration with other hospital leaders, a psychologist, security staff, and other stakeholders to better manage volatile situations and protect the well-being of patients and employees.
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Long-Term Care Facilities Cut Superfluous Antibiotic Use
Locations that adhered to federal safety program reported more success in this area.
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HCW Injuries, Illness Off the Charts in 2020
Healthcare workers in the United State experienced a more than twofold increase in injury and illness rates in 2020, the first year of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. -
Vaccine Expert: SARS-CoV-2 Is Becoming Endemic
Make of it what you will in an unpredictable pandemic, but one of the nation’s leading vaccine and immunology experts sees COVID-19 fading to a somewhat undefined endemic level and then returning as a seasonal virus next winter. -
Racism and Nursing: ‘We Need to Examine Our Hearts and Motives’
A researcher recently wrote an introduction and overview for a nursing journal’s special issue on racism and nursing. She recalled an incident about a decade ago when a peer reviewer objected to an article she authored because it used the word “racism.” She discusses this and more in a Q&A. -
Violence Against HCWs Increased During Pandemic
In one of the few studies of its kind, researchers at the Mayo Clinic reported violent incidents against healthcare workers have more than doubled during the COVID-19 pandemic. -
It Is Not the Canary — It Is the Coal Mine
Too often, healthcare workers facing a panoply of mental maladies — burnout, trauma, moral injury — are expected to muster up resilience enough to overcome what is essentially a systems problem. The answer is to fix the coal mine, not build stronger canaries, an expert says. -
Physician Turnover Costs Millions in Excess Healthcare Spending
Each time a physician leaves his or her practice, that can lead to more than $86,000 in extra costs during the following year.