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Most experts agree that offering flu vaccinations is a good idea, but the issue of requiring them can stir up a debate.
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Allegations of Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) violations as part of the charity care lawsuits should prompt risk managers to take yet another hard look at how their emergency department staff discuss payment with patients.
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The difficult part of adopting a "just culture" philosophy may be defining exactly what constitutes reckless and willful behavior.
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A 73-year-old woman with a history of peripheral artery disease underwent elective femoral bypass surgery. Post-surgical complications developed, but six weeks later she returned to the nursing home where she had been prior to the hospitalization.
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An 83-year-old nursing home resident developed severe decubitus ulcers. After the nursing home failed to treat the ulcers, they became infected, and the woman subsequently died.
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Once again, clinical experts are debating whether it is necessary to require flu vaccinations for health care works but risk managers must look at the issue a little differently from infection control professionals and epidemiologists.
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One of the most successful Patient and Family Advisory Council (PFAC) efforts at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston is the practice of "patient safety rounds," ...
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Every day, nurses are going home with back pain. Some of them may even have back injuries they never tell you about.
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Ergonomics involves an equation: Too much force on the body equals pain and injury.
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The ability to deliver quality health care depends on adequate staffing and optimum health and welfare of staff. During a pandemic, the health care work force will be stressed physically and psychologically.