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Like most, I was inspired by the rescue of the Chilean miners in October. I felt an enormous urge to accomplish something significant, to finish projects I had left dangling or follow up on other issues that individually weren't a big deal but collectively were.
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Alert fatigue can lead to behaviors in health care that might seem fine until the day they cause a tragedy, says John Banja, PhD, assistant director for health sciences and clinical ethics at Emory University in Atlanta.
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Next month's issue will focus on saving money and generating revenue in outpatient surgery.
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It was a busy Friday in September at the Farmington Surgery Center at the University of Connecticut Health Center. Patients were recovering from anesthesia.
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Nurses and patients in the ED at The George Washington University Hospital in Washington, DC, have responded positively to a new study that allows patients to e-mail cell phone photos of their injuries to ED physicians prior to their treatment.
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Initial data on the use of cell phone photos of injuries, taken by the patients themselves in the ED at The George Washington University Hospital in Washington, DC, offers the promise that they might have the potential to speed treatment without sacrificing diagnostic accuracy.
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There are any number of reasons why an ED and its hospital would have difficulty complying with The Joint Commission standard regarding egress, says Diana S. Contino, RN, MBA, FAEN, senior manager of health care with Deloitte Consulting in Los Angeles.
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In the Planetree model, staff don't treat patients like they'd want to be treated. Instead, they find out how the patient wants to be treated, says Linda Sharkey, RN, MSN, vice president of patient care services and chief nurse executive at Fauquier Hospital.
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Aggressive fluid resuscitation, which normally would be used in younger trauma patients, potentially could do serious harm to an elder patient, warns Rhyan Weaver, RN, BSN, CEN, clinical supervisor in the ED at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, AZ.
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By developing a case management model that frees RN case managers to do what they do best coordinate care Fauquier Hospital in Warrenton, VA, has reduced its average length of stay without affecting the readmission rate.