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Be Careful About Informed Consent if Pelvic Exams Happen While Patients Are Under Anesthesia
Incorporate explicit discussions with patients about pelvic exams conducted while patients are under anesthesia. These discussions should occur during consent processes for gynecologic procedures. Specifically, patients would be told about the potential for medical student involvement in these exams.
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Ethical Considerations for Trauma-Informed Care
Use the tenets of trauma-informed care by realizing the widespread effects of trauma; recognizing signs and symptoms; responding by including knowledge about trauma in policies, procedures, and practices; and avoiding retraumatization.
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How Should Researchers Proceed if They Suspect Neglect or Abuse?
If researchers interview a child during a minimal risk study at a school, and they suspect the child is a victim of abuse or neglect, investigators are ethically obligated to respond to this.
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New Tools to Facilitate Single IRB Process
The intent of the revised Common Rule requiring institutions to rely on a single IRB for review of multisite research was to make the process simpler and prevent redundancies. Yet several years after the requirement became effective, research teams still struggle with frustrating operational challenges.
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Moral Injury in HCWs at Level of Combat Vets
Moral injury is a fairly well-established syndrome in combat soldiers, but researchers found healthcare workers suffered a comparable level of mental turmoil and ethical conflict during the first two years of the pandemic.
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Dealing with Toxic Employees
Everyone has met him or her — and would prefer not to meet them again. But there they are when you arrive for duty: The toxic co-worker.
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Survey: 87% of Acute Care Sites Short of Nurses
Healthcare delivery is at a critical tipping point due to a nursing shortage crisis that is projected to get worse, and no clear consensus on new labor models to meet the crisis, according to a survey and report by two companies involved in medical education and labor solutions. Even before the pandemic drove workers from the clinical bedside, experts projected 1 million more nurses would be needed by 2030.
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Healthcare Workers Likely Will Be Offered New Vaccine
Healthcare workers likely will be offered a new COVID-19 vaccine the FDA is pushing to roll out for this fall and winter. The FDA Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee approved “the inclusion of a SARS-CoV-2 omicron component for COVID-19 booster vaccines in the United States.”
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Report: Patients Sicker Now Than Before the COVID-19 Pandemic
Delayed care also driving longer lengths of stay, price increases for labor and supplies.
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Text Messages Boosted Pediatric Flu Vaccination Rates
Personalized, interactive, educational reminders led parents to bring children for the second shot faster and at a higher rate.