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Badges Identify Visitors After Screening
Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, OH, uses a system that checks the background of visitors and issues a temporary identification badge noting what type of visitor they are.
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Debrief All Violent Acts, Not Just the Big Ones
Debriefing should be a core part of any violence prevention and response plan.
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Preventing Hospital Violence Requires Proactive Strategy
Hospitals are focusing more on violence and how to prevent it in the healthcare setting, but they still need to adopt a more proactive approach that includes all forms of violence, not just the big notable incidents, experts say.
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Conduct a QA/QI Research Program Risk Assessment
Human research protection programs (HRPPs) are required to assess their quality, efficiency, and effectiveness if they’re seeking accreditation. HRPPs can do this through ongoing quality assurance/quality improvement (QA/QI) programs. But sometimes the quality improvement program also needs to be assessed for quality.
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Creating an Optimal Research Training and Mentoring Program
A nine-year IRB chair veteran and a medical school’s associate dean identified gaps in their institution’s human research protection education. They noticed that online training was fine for general information, but came up short when investigators were struggling with specific protocol issues.
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IRB Has Variety of Self-Assessment, Staff Assessment Tools
An Indiana research compliance program found that IRB staff and board assessments help keep the program on track and running well.
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Researcher: Human Infection Trials for Zika Could Be Safely Performed
It sounds counterintuitive, but one of the main arguments for getting a Zika virus vaccine into human trials is that as susceptible people become immune through prior infection, it will be harder to test vaccine efficacy in a large population.
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NIH Ethics Panel Vetoes Zika Human Infection Trials
While there are reports of various Zika vaccine trials proceeding, one the most promising methods to quickly and accurately measure vaccine efficacy has come to a full stop.
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ANA Prepares for Return of Ebola – or Anything Else
As a result of the Ebola outbreak, the American Nurses Association has entered into training and resource collaborations with both the CDC and the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology.
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OB Risk Reduction Focuses on Nurses, Detailed Timelines
While much of malpractice prevention efforts focus on physicians, nurses can be at risk of malpractice charges in this specialty.