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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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Financial Conflicts Reported Inconsistently
It might be time to consider another approach to transparency on financial conflicts.
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The Trouble with Electronically Tracking Study Medications
Digital pills allow data to be recorded automatically about patients’ medication adherence, but patients and providers have expressed significant ethical concerns.
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Electronic Orders, Education Boost Requests for Ethics Consults
The electronic order is an important way to streamline ethics consultation requests, but additional, broader efforts will be needed.
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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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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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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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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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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.