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Safe patient handling may become an imperative in the nations hospitals not because of any proposed legislation or regulation, but because of rising financial pressures related to both patient safety and workers compensation.
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In patient rooms, doctors are prescribing a low-sodium diet to improve health. But in hospital cafeterias, employees and visitors may be loading up on salty and processed food.
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After years of development, the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) has created a respiratory protection device prototype that is expected to improve health care workers comfort and tolerance when wearing these devices.
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Common wisdom suggests the drug-addicted doctor is different from the drug-addicted sales rep or homeless person.
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Health care systems handle cases of employee substance abuse in a variety of ways from punitive measures to providing treatment and long follow-up care and monitoring.
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Hospitals increasingly are teaching managers to look for signs of drug abuse among employees, focusing on subtle clues like talk of financial problems or more blatant signs, such as arriving to work late or failing to show up as scheduled.
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Standardized language in health care is not yet universal, which can cause problems when implementing electronic health records (EHRs) in an employee health setting.
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What at first seemed the tragic but otherwise unremarkable death of an elderly woman, comedian Joan Rivers, has turned out to be entirely preventable and the result of serious malpractice, according to a federal report and malpractice attorneys.
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The risk of alarm fatigue prompted clinicians at Cincinnati (OH) Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC) to institute processes that reduced cardiac monitoring alarms by 80%. These are the processes implemented at the hospital:
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Risk financing is critical to enterprise risk management, but many healthcare administrators, including risk managers, can get lost in the financial details and decisions to be made.
