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Hartford Healthcare Launching Quality Initiatives
Hartford HealthCare, a healthcare network in Connecticut, is launching a series of quality initiatives aimed at getting patients the care they need quickly and safely.
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Copy-and-Paste Continues to Threaten Documentation Safety
Copy-and-paste is so easy and time saving that it can be tempting to overuse it in the medical record, and some electronic medical records encourage clinicians to use blocks of text over and over. Liberal use of copy-and-paste can diminish the quality and reliability of an electronic medical record, however.
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Staffing Grid Improves Satisfaction for Patients and Nurses, Reduces Falls
A new staffing grid focused on improving patient, nurse and staff satisfaction contributed to reducing patient falls by 50% and staff injuries by 81% over approximately one year at Sharp Memorial Hospital in San Diego.
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Improved Patient Handoffs Require Comprehensive Approach
Hospitals are paying more attention to patient handoffs as a crucial element in quality and patient safety, with an evolution toward seeing them as not just a distinct task, but more as a comprehensive strategy.
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Under Pressure: Multiple Factors Driving Nurse Burnout
We frequently hear of rampant stress and resulting burnout in nurses. What causes it? Employee health professionals are well aware of the threats of occupational injury and illness, but other factors in the work environment require considerable resilience to withstand daily.
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Is Complacency Setting in on Sharps Injury Prevention?
Although incremental gains continue, needlestick and sharps injury prevention efforts overall have plateaued and there is a risk of complacency in healthcare settings due to the perceived diminished threat of the major bloodborne pathogens, according to an expert on the issue.
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NIOSH Looks to Expand Use of Elastomeric Respirators
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health is seeking input to develop procedures for decontamination of reusable elastomeric respirators, which could be an important and sustainable resource in times of high PPE demand.
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Exposures to Opioid Patients Endanger Healthcare Workers
Citing the lack of national guidelines for nurses and other healthcare workers, National Nurses United is developing personal protective equipment recommendations to prevent opioid exposures.
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Outpatient Surgery on Steroids
Feeding on chum-churned water, vendors are adding to the mix the availability of lower cost for the necessary equipment to perform a growing list of procedures outside the mothership. While the mainstream vendors are slow to lower costs, the secondary markets are jumping in with both feet to capture a piece of the expanding pie.
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Tips for Preventing Staff Stress, Burnout
Leaders can take various steps to prevent employees’ healthy stress from turning into counterproductive, or even destructive, stress and burnout.