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If you dont comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) privacy regulations, you may face civil penalties of up to $25,000 for each requirement violated, and criminal penalties of up to $50,000 and one year in prison for obtaining or disclosing protected health information.
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Do you want to be sure your EDs domestic violence program is effective? According to current statistics, 2%-4% of all female ED patients present with acute trauma associated with domestic violence, while 10%-12% have a recent history of domestic violence.
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Are you looking for ways to save money on supplies? Paula Hafeman, RN, MSN, director of the cancer and emergency center at St. Vincent Hospital in Green Bay, WI, has effective strategies to share. Here are several that her ED recently adopted.
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Are you complying with new hand hygiene guidelines from the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)? The guidelines recommend using alcohol-based hand rubs along with soap and water and sterile gloves.1 Here are key recommendations.
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Are you ready to isolate a case of suspected smallpox, cope with potentially serious side effects from the vaccine, and answer questions from panicked patients? There is no time to hesitate these are things you will have to do soon, because hospitals nationwide have received the official go-ahead to vaccinate staff for smallpox.
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If you were asked to name a leading cause of mortality, sepsis might not come to mind immediately. However, sepsis is the 10th most common cause of death in the United States, and it is increasing due to growing numbers of elderly patients and interventional procedures
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When dealing with conscious sedation, you need to know what medications youre giving, know what response to look for, and know what to do if there is an adverse event.
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Prompt, aggressive, and adequate supportive care must be provided to patients who present to the hospital with pneumonia, especially the elderly and immunocompromised.
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Thomson American Health Consultants now offers the Hospital Handbook on Smallpox Vaccination, a facilitywide resource containing all the information you need about smallpox vaccination in most health care facilities and environments.
