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Influenza vaccination of healthcare personnel is a professional and ethical responsibility and non-compliance with healthcare facility policies regarding vaccination should not be tolerated, argues the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA).
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If you want employees to comply with sharps safety, then their supervisors have to require it. That is a strong message that emerged from a survey of paramedics related to bloodborne pathogen exposures.
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Infection preventionists should make sure their administrative leaders are aware in a collegial, non-confrontational way of course that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) requires top-level support for infection control programs, advises Connie Steed, RN, BSN, CIC, manager of infection control at the Greenville (SC) Hospital System.
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In response to repeated requests for interviews and information, the Centers for Medicare Services (CMS) agreed to take written questions by Hospital Infection Control & Prevention and circulate them within the agency for answers.
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Meeting with key stakeholders and sterilization groups, the Joint Commission is nearing a landmark consensus position on the long-confusing issue of "flash" sterilization.
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It's not unusual for soldiers who have returned from war never to discuss the war with their families or friends, creating an aura of mystery or a sense that their loved ones somehow cannot fully understand them now that they have returned to civilian life.
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Jeanne S. Twohig, MPA, senior advisor, Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life, unabashedly asserted that there is a crisis in our country as to the quality of the vision for our health care futures.
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A study published in mid-August in the New England Journal of Medicine found that in patients with metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer, "early palliative care led to significant improvements in both quality of life and mood," according to the abstract.
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