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You have to replace four out of 14 nonclinical patient care coordinators. Because youre in a crunch, you just place your standard ad in the paper and choose the best four people who apply and who can start immediately. Not any more.
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A recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine reported a disturbing finding: In one-third of the cases of retained equipment that were studied, surgical teams failed to count equipment before and after the operations.
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The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) in Denver regularly receives questions from members about their counting procedures. Here are some of the most common, with answers from Ramona Conner, RN, MSN, perioperative nursing specialist at AORN.
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If you are looking for examples of alternative approaches to the 2003 National Patient Safety Goal recommendations, check out a new web site offered by the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.
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In addition to posting signs in the operating room to remind staff to take a time-out just prior to the first incision to verify the surgical site, there are other activities you should perform on an ongoing basis to make sure staff follow your time-out policy.
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As a manager, what is your greatest challenge? What cause your greatest headaches and takes the most of your time? In an informal and anonymous poll of friends in the business, Stephen W. Earnhart asks these and other questions.
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As with many areas of health care, new approaches in technology have been sought to ease the way into compliance with HIPAA. One example is the HIPAA GUARD program from Monterey, CA-based Integritas Inc.