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Tidbits, Tips, and Tricks
This month's column touches on hiring and contract best practices.
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Follow These Tips to Ensure All Loaned Instrument Tray Processes Are Up to Date
With technology continually evolving and new manufacturer’s instructions for use (IFU) to follow, ASC staff might need a refresher course on best practices in cleaning and sterilizing loaned instrument trays.
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Tips to Improve Informed Consent Process
ASCs can ensure best practices in the informed consent process through knowing state laws and ensuring patients fully understand the procedure, along with its risks and expected outcomes.
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When Obtaining Informed Consent, Focus on Everyone’s Role in the Process
Obtaining patients’ informed consent is the physician’s responsibility, but the process is more than just a signature on a page.
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Staff Should Lead Culture of Caring Initiative
One of the most effective ways to prevent bullying is to create a culture of caring in a healthcare setting, including ASCs. This process calls for identifying key stakeholders and asking them to work on creating a healthy work environment initiative. The goal is to establish a culture of regard in which staff treat each other positively.
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Your ASC Is Bully-Free? Think Again
Identifying bullying between nurses and others in a healthcare setting is not as simple as recognizing bullying on high school dramedies. Such behavior in healthcare can be less visible and ambiguous to observers and even to those experiencing it — at least at first.
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Bullying Among Nurses, Other Healthcare Workers Harms Workplace Culture
Bullying in healthcare settings is ubiquitous, particularly episodes involving nurses, according to research and government data. Ambulatory surgery centers and other organizations can reduce workplace bullying by focusing on what creates a culture that allows bullying to flourish.
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Every Violence Prevention Program Starts With Reporting and Data Collection
One barrier to preventing workplace violence is an organization’s failure to close the loop with healthcare workers by giving those employees information about what happened once they reported an incident.
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Management, Workplace Culture Key Elements of Violence Prevention
There are no federal standards or regulations for workplace violence prevention; everything is advisory, but there are some key elements to prevention and actions healthcare organizations can take.
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The Joint Commission Focuses on Preventing Workplace Violence
Healthcare workers, especially nurses, are at a high risk of violence, largely at the hands of patients. Research shows that healthcare workers are at greater risk from violence than almost every other worker, and the problem is on the rise. Recognizing the risk, healthcare organizations are developing and sharing resources to help mitigate workplace violence.