Recommended steps to prevent workplace violence in hospitals include ensuring workers receive adequate training, having sufficient staffing levels, providing ongoing assessment of patients and residents for aggressive behavior and indicators, and appropriately adapting patients’ or residents’...
CMS wants hospitals, nursing homes and other healthcare providers, “especially those delivering care in congregate care settings,” to protect patients against the transmission of COVID-19 and influenza.
On November 28, The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that it would start referring to the monkeypox virus as “mpox,” in an attempt to stymie racist and stigmatizing associations.
