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Nurse Champion Role Helps Identify Ethics Issues
With the right training and advocacy, nurses can identify and address ethical issues, along with moral distress. They might be more willing to speak up about ethical issues encountered in daily practice and identify institutional resources to assist.
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Ethics Work Affects Entire Hospital: Data Can Prove It
Ethics work aligns with many issues that are top of mind for hospital leaders. How can ethicists measure that?
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The Joint Commission’s Updated Ethics Standards Spark Debate
The Joint Commission could play a role in elevating the professionalism and value of ethics programs nationally with some enhanced standards, encouraging formal attention to best practices and evaluation — and evolving toward the possibility of more rigor over time.
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Healthcare Workers Not Likely Infected, Colonized with C. auris
Recent reports highlighting the continuing increase and geographic spread of Candida auris — a multidrug-resistant fungus that is moving between healthcare facilities — have raised the question of whether healthcare workers could be infected or colonized with the emerging pathogen. It is highly unlikely, but the risk is not zero.
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The Vanishing Nurse: Staff, Patients in Peril
Around 1 million nurses may leave the field in the next few years, leaving the perennial “most trusted” profession absent at the bedside. The exodus was triggered by a pandemic, entrenched by a haphazard response, and then revealed in demographics that indicate the old are retiring and the young are leaving early.
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EPA Moving to Reduce Cancer Risk to HCWs Exposed to EtO Sterilant
Ethylene oxide (EtO) is used on approximately 50% of all sterilized medical devices annually, including an estimated 95% of all surgical kits. EtO can sterilize heat- or moisture-sensitive medical equipment without causing any damage. Proposed regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency are designed to sharply reduce worker exposures to EtO sterilant and prevent occupational cancer.
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Tough Love: Returning Injured Workers to Full Duty
There are pressures in today’s healthcare environment to ensure injured or sick workers return to duty, but this must be balanced against their needed recovery time. It takes a delicate combination of compassion and skepticism — and no small amount of detective work — to make the right call.
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New Tools Can Help Healthcare Industry Cut Carbon Emissions
Leaders can take advantage of loans, grants, and tax credits available through the Inflation Reduction Act.
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Legal Exposure for EDs if On-Call Consultant Refuses to See Patient
There are multiple tactics to secure a consult, even if a specialist is busy. However, if a bad outcome occurs because there was no consult, clinicians should not play the blame game.
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Report: Nearly 100,000 Nurses Quit During Pandemic
Stress, burnout, and retirements drove exodus.