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Identifying septic patients at triage can decrease the potential for development of organ dysfunction leading to severe sepsis and septic shock, says Christa Schorr, RN, BSN, the program manager responsible for data collection and analysis of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign database at Cooper University Hospital in Camden, NJ.
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If a patient complains of heart palpitation or chest pain, you might not immediately suspect caffeine abuse, but this could be a growing problem among young people, according to a recently published study. Researchers looked retrospectively at 265 caffeine abuse cases called into a regional poison control center over a three-year period, and they found that 12% ended up in an area ED.
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As a case manager, your job involves being an advocate for your patients as well as keeping your hospital's best interests in mind, and that means being informed about the business end of health care.
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Through the efforts on an interdisciplinary team, the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics has been able to shrink the number of patients who remain in the hospital for 30 days or longer from an average of 60 or 70 in-house each day to an average of 20 or fewer.
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When injured workers come into Detroit Receiving Hospital's Level 1 trauma center at the Detroit Medical Center, their care is coordinated by a dedicated occupational health case coordinator who acts as a liaison between the emergency department's medical care team, the employee, the employer, and the workers' compensation carrier.
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In the first weeks after a tornado destroyed Sumter Regional Hospital in Americus, GA, the case management staff was at loose ends.
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Hospitals continue to accelerate their use of health information technology, with 68% reporting that electronic health records had been fully or partially implemented as of fall 2006, according to the American Hospital Association's second annual survey of hospital health IT use.
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Something called "cognitive load" or "cognitive work" is the centerpoint of some of the latest thinking on the way people process information and do their jobs.
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When B.K. Kizziar, RN, CCM, CLP, speaks to groups of case managers, she asks if they know how many home care visits their own health care will provide. Few raise their hands.
