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Time-to-Disposition Delays Are Possible if Patient Is Seen Early
Recent study findings reflect the different types of work occurring during an ED shift. At the beginning of a shift, providers prioritize seeing new patients and initiating workups. At the end of a shift, providers transition to following up on lab or imaging results, and making decisions on whether to admit or discharge.
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Patients Do Not Know if They Are Seeing an APP or an EP
Many patients do not realize the type of medical professional who handled their care. There are numerous unreliable, subjective ways patients may presuppose the credentials of the members of their care team, including individual partialities, along with personal and cultural experiences.
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Emergency Nurses Aim to Improve Care of OUD Patients
When armed with appropriate screening questions, nurses can better identify and assist patients with opioid use disorder. Because nurses often are the first care team member a patient sees, an interdisciplinary approach makes sense to ensure all components of a patient’s health are addressed.
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As Opioid Epidemic Continues Unabated, EDs Mobilize to Save Lives
Investigators have made remarkable progress in identifying patients with opioid use disorder when they present to the ED, and convincing frontline providers to initiate these patients on medication-assisted treatment. Further, they have been regularly documenting their ongoing improvement efforts to offer other EDs a potential roadmap for how to improve in this area and sustain that progress.
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Survey: OB/GYN Residents Feel Unprepared to Care for LGBTQ+ Patients
Lack of experienced faculty and curricular crowding were the two most commonly identified barriers.
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Physicians Might Discuss Medical Aid in Dying, Providing the Service Could Be Another Matter
Considered one of the most controversial subjects in medicine, some physicians might talk with patients about medical aid in dying, but providing the service could be a different story — for several reasons, both ethical and practical.
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Chaplains Distinctly Equipped to Address Moral Injury
When healthcare professionals experience moral injury, they experience spiritual and existential distress in the forms of self-doubt, guilt, frustration, anger, depression, and burnout. Collaborating with chaplains is crucial in supporting staff when they believe they have compromised their moral integrity.
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Chatbots Can Help Care Managers Provide Ethical Treatment
There is no way around it — health systems are facing an ongoing shortage of clinicians to meet the needs of patients who need longitudinal care management. For one system, chatbot technology turned out to be at least a partial solution.
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Racism Reported by Nurses, Physicians
Are nurses and physicians of color at your facility at risk of occupational racism? Employee health professionals should be aware of two recent reports that cited racial incidents, which negatively affected productivity and emotional wellness. -
Tips for Passing an OSHA Bloodborne Pathogen Inspection
The Bloodborne Pathogens Standard has been on the books for decades. But exposure control plans — the principal component of compliance — should be viewed as a “living document” that changes over time, a needlestick prevention expert noted.