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Almost 10 years after the Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act created a legal mandate for safer sharps, health care workers still are being stuck with convention devices.
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The Joint Commission's Leadership standard (LD.03.01.01) includes two elements of performance related to intimidation and bullying:
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You can't just mandate a civil workplace. You have to build one.
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Compared with carcinogenic chemicals and infectious diseases, workplace bullying may seem like more of an annoyance than a health risk.
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Imagine the perfect respirator for health care workers: They wouldn't mind wearing it for an entire shift. They wouldn't have any trouble communicating with each other or with patients. Yet it would protect them from infectious diseases, and it wouldn't cost too much.
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An incorrect address sounds like a very simple matter to correct, but this wrong information can lead to payment for a valid insurance claim being delayed or denied altogether. This is something that no patient access department wants.
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When your most skilled, compassionate, experienced staff person tells you she's leaving, don't let the first words out of your mouth be, "That will be a disaster for you!" or "You're making a huge mistake!"
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Training in cardiopulmonary resuscitation is the ultimate "homeland security," says Vinay Nadkarni, MD, a spokesperson for the American Heart Association (AHA) and medical director of the Center for Simulation, Advanced Education and Innovation at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
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Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey and the New Jersey Academy of Family Physicians are collaborating on a pilot project aimed at improving the quality of care members receive through a pilot program testing the concepts of the patient-centered medical home.
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The nation's most comprehensive safe patient handling law is now in full effect: Hospitals in Washington state were to have equipment to reduce injuries by Jan. 31.