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Five health care workers in the United States have contracted suspected severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), but timely and thorough infection control precautions appear to be holding the emerging infection at bay in the United States.
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To identify severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in ambulatory care settings, targeted screening questions concerning fever, respiratory symptoms, close contacts with a SARS suspect case patient, and recent travel should be included at triage or as soon as possible after patient arrival, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends.
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The public health response to SARS has been strikingly rapid on many fronts, but a global pandemic of a new infectious disease still is a real possibility, the author warns.
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In an era of patient safety, the author urged national expansion of the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions (CDC) National Nosocomial Infection Surveillance (NNIS) System. Despite its flaws and limited scope, the NNIS system may be a model for patient safety data collection.
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Reducing the risk of serious nosocomial infections is being considered as a 2004 national patient safety goal by the Joint Commission.
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This isnt a story about how to attract high school and college students into nursing or other medical professions at least not directly. This is a story about how competing health systems have come together in North Carolina to share resources and ideas on how to solve the critical shortage problems facing health care.
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In a time of shortage, hospitals are looking for any and every way they can to differentiate themselves from other facilities. Being the employer of choice means fewer holes in the schedule, better patient outcomes, and a happier staff. For 67 hospitals around the country, one of the best ways they have found to differentiate themselves is by becoming Magnet-designated facilities.
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Theres a nasty story going around in the Youngstown, OH, area. Nurses at an area hospital found out that new hires were getting paid more than those who had considerable experience.
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Paula Bradney, RN, director of recruitment staffing at Banner Health System in Mesa, AZ, has been to Europe, Canada, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. But those werent vacation trips. She was looking for nurses.
