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Hospitals have long been at the forefront of hiring salaried and hourly staff from other continents. This trend becomes more apparent during periods of nursing and physician labor shortages.
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Occupational back injuries are an ongoing hazard in health care, particularly among nurses who have to move patients and perform other tasks that could cause injury.
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Hospital employee health directors often find it difficult to quantify a return on investment (ROI) for hospital leadership because much of their departments value cannot be measured.
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The aftermath of a needlestick is fraught with anxiety, but thanks to advances in HIV testing and treatment, health care workers can get swift and clear post-exposure guidance. A new drug regimen lowers the risk of contracting HIV, with fewer side effects.
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In health care every dollar spent must be justified in some way. Hospital occupational health departments and clinics might find this to be especially true since they are considered non-revenue producing departments.
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Mercy Medical Center in Canton, OH, established daily multidisciplinary rounds at the same time the case management department was being redesigned.
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When patients are being discharged from University of Utah Health Care, they receive a one-page handout that supplements the written discharge instructions and gives patients, in an easy-to-read format, all the information they need when they get home.
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Multidisciplinary rounds can be an invaluable tool for the hospital team, but only if they are well-organized and focused, experts say.
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Patient access leaders at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston created a visual tool in 2013 to help staff to determine the correct payer.
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Multidisciplinary rounds are a good way to improve throughput, reduce length of stay and readmissions, and improve patient satisfaction, experts say.
