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The life of a home health nurse is filled with variety, independence, flexibility — and all too often, back pain. While hospitals are implementing safe lifting programs in their facilities, the home health nurse or aide travels from home to home and faces hazards the floor nurse couldn't imagine.
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The moment a nurse tries to help a heavy-set, medically fragile patient stand and walk is fraught with risk. With one miscalculation, the patient can fall, and the nurse or the patient — or both — may be seriously injured. If the patient falls, the hospital could have a lawsuit on its hands for failing to use mechanical assist devices that are readily available.
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Moving patients safely isn't just a way to protect workers. It also improves the mobility of patients while preventing falls — core components of patient safety and satisfaction.
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Verbal abuse, threats, assaults from combative or disoriented patients or emotionally distraught family members — those occurrences are so common in hospitals that many nurses seem to feel it's just "part of the job."
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In the world of tuberculosis screening, sometimes an unfortunate series of events leads down the path toward inappropriate treatment.
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In early February 2008, all the ED physicians at St. Anthony's Medical Center in St. Louis, including ED medical director Ed Ferguson, MD, submitted their resignations over a dispute with the administration concerning the establishment of a physician group.
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As we go to press, a jury has cleared two ED physicians of negligence in a $67 million lawsuit filed by John Ritter's widow Amy Yasbeck in Los Angeles Superior Court.
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In the face of findings at Swedish Medical Center in Denver, that upgrading from a Level II trauma designation to a Level I significantly improves mortality rates, should an ED manager at a Level II facility advocate such an upgrade?