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With voluntary operations and procedures returning, huddle with your surgery and infection prevention teams to review your surgical site infection (SSI) prevention policies and best practices. More than a time to remove any rust, take this as an opportunity to tackle the second most common form...
Find a detail-oriented person at ambulatory healthcare sites to review credentialing and privileging procedures to ensure primary source verification is carried out and that records and licenses for practitioners are not outdated. Appoint a rotating “secret shopper” among your staff to audit...
Find a detail-oriented person at ambulatory healthcare sites to review credentialing and privileging procedures to ensure primary source verification is carried out and that records and licenses for practitioners are not outdated. Appoint a rotating “secret shopper” among your staff to audit...
The healthcare sector has shed 537,000 jobs since the start of the pandemic in February 2020, with hospitals accounting for 102,000 job losses, and nursing homes accounting for 360,000 job losses. Ambulatory services sector has grown 75,400 jobs in that span. There were 15.9 million people...
Critical care nurses frequently did not mobilize intubated patients receiving mechanical ventilation because the patient was uncooperative, according to a new study published in American Journal of Critical Care. Competing demands from other patients or concerns about patient safety or...
As the COVID-19 vaccines roll out across the country and around the world, healthcare organizations can now pivot from frontline surge preparation and focus on futureproofing their facilities. While hospitals successfully implemented emergency facility upgrades and stopgap measures to meet...
In March, OSHA issued its Updated Interim Enforcement Response Plan for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). The updates extend existing OSHA protections for workplace safety whistleblowers, explicitly stating those protections apply to those who report COVID-19 related violations at the...
