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You can't just mandate a civil workplace. You have to build one.
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Compared with carcinogenic chemicals and infectious diseases, workplace bullying may seem like more of an annoyance than a health risk.
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Imagine the perfect respirator for health care workers: They wouldn't mind wearing it for an entire shift. They wouldn't have any trouble communicating with each other or with patients. Yet it would protect them from infectious diseases, and it wouldn't cost too much.
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Imagine being sued by a patient for an alleged act of malpractice, but evidence is introduced in the courtroom that leads the jury to believe another practitioner not yourself is the one who is truly at fault.
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Some EDs are now offering online updates on current wait times, with the stated expectation that patients will use this information to make better decisions on where to go for care.
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Whether the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) ends upon admission or extends indefinitely until the admitted patient is eventually discharged or transferred has been debated by the courts, government agencies, and EMTALA pundits for years without definitive resolution.
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An incorrect address sounds like a very simple matter to correct, but this wrong information can lead to payment for a valid insurance claim being delayed or denied altogether. This is something that no patient access department wants.
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When your most skilled, compassionate, experienced staff person tells you she's leaving, don't let the first words out of your mouth be, "That will be a disaster for you!" or "You're making a huge mistake!"
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Training in cardiopulmonary resuscitation is the ultimate "homeland security," says Vinay Nadkarni, MD, a spokesperson for the American Heart Association (AHA) and medical director of the Center for Simulation, Advanced Education and Innovation at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.