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Ethical Approaches to Address Nursing Workloads, Staffing Shortages
Ethicists can perform an invaluable role by working closely with senior management and medical staff leaders to develop collaborative initiatives to acknowledge the problem’s magnitude and engage nursing representatives in developing creative solutions.
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Adults with Developmental Disabilities at Risk for Poor End-of-Life Care
Policies should specify that the wishes of these patients should be known. They should be able to access all medically appropriate care, without bias, and have the right to avoid medical interventions they wish to refuse.
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Artificial Intelligence Soon Could Transform the Field of Clinical Ethics
Using a tool that could introduce bias into a clinical situation or during an ethics consult is problematic. To address these and other issues, ethicists can and should be part of their facility's artificial intelligence oversight board.
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Feds Seek to Overhaul Nation’s Prescription Drug Model
The White House has directed federal agencies to find ways to lower costs, expand access, and speed delivery.
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IRS Resolves ‘Family Glitch’ in Affordable Care Act
The long-standing blind spot had left many ineligible for marketplace subsidies.
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Burnout Affects Nearly Half of Nurses, Physicians
Teamwork may be an antidote to burnout in healthcare. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, burnout affected 43% of physicians and nurses. Doctors reported more isolation, according to a recent study. Worse, the pandemic pushed burnout to crisis levels, affecting more than half of all nurses and physicians.
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Using Technology to Alleviate HCW Stress, Strengthen Resiliency
As healthcare worker stress and burnout spiked during the pandemic, organizations searched for ways to alleviate the burden, including finding new uses for technology. To help healthcare workers adjust to these significant sources of stress, health systems can build and enhance resiliency.
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ACEP Survey: Emergency Departments Under Siege
In a recent survey, two-thirds of emergency physicians reported a patient assaulted them in the past year, and more than one-third of respondents said they have been attacked more than once. The survey by ACEP revealed 31% of assaults involved a family member or friend of the patient.
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Predicting Violence in the Individual Patient
Is it possible to assess whether a patient is a risk for committing an act of violence? An occupational health consultant in Oregon thinks the evidence strongly supports the efficacy of patient assessment tools, and more hospitals should be using them.
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OSHA Violence Prevention Draft Reg Gathers Momentum
Making slow but steady progress on an intractable problem, OSHA is expected to issue a violence prevention draft standard for healthcare in 2023. The need for regulation is compelling, particularly since violence in healthcare is notoriously underreported.