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Violence in the emergency department (ED) is such a common occurrence that staff can become complacent about the risks they face daily. Nowhere else in your organization would employees accept the idea that they may be assaulted at any time, but that attitude can be common in the ED.
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Angry, violent individuals need specialized attention, and improperly handling a crisis can mean years of litigation, warns Robert Siciliano, CEO of NurseSecurity.com and a personal security expert in Boston. Fail to act properly and you could face liability from either the injured staff member or the assailant who was injured by your intervention. Or both.
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The risk factors for an elderly patient living at home will be quite different from the risk factors for a patient in a hospital setting.
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The Joint Commission's 2009 National Patient Safety Goals introduce some significant changes for hospitals related to multiple drug-resistant organisms (MDROs) and more stringent standards for how operative sites should be marked to avoid wrong-site errors.
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A Pennsylvania jury has awarded $20 million to the family of an 18-year-old Newtown Square, PA, woman who died after a liposuction procedure.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) doesn't call it a rate cut. However, the net result of the proposed hospice wage index elimination over the next three years is a reduction in reimbursement.
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Although the proposed wage index reductions by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will vary from county to county and state to state, hospice experts agree that all hospices will be affected.
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The 22 laptops were working fine. Data were being entered, nurses were visiting patients, and everyone was thrilled with the newly installed electronic health record system. At least that's what everyone believed until nurses started to report that data they transmitted the night before weren't showing up in the records.
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When the hospice nurses' laptops at the St. John Home Health and Hospice in Tulsa, OK, stopped synchronizing with the agency's server, agency management and the software vendor worked through the weekend to identify and solve the problem.
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When 78 million baby boomers reach age 65 in 2011, they will depend upon a health care work force that is too small and unprepared to meet their needs, according to a report from the Institute of Medicine.
