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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, individuals who have any of the following conditions, or live with someone who does, should NOT get the smallpox vaccine unless they have been exposed to the smallpox virus.
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Chaotic staffing problems and unexpected side effects aside, the worst case scenario is that a patient with smallpox will present to your emergency department. You need a solid strategy in place before this occurs. Here are some effective strategies.
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A list of signs and symptoms from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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If your nurses arent up to date on the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), you risk violations that can result in fines of up to $50,000 per violation, lawsuits for personal injury, and possible termination of the hospitals Medicare provider agreement.
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Here is the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) study guide given to emergency department nurses at Gottlieb Memorial Hospital, Melrose Park, IL.
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When considering opportunities to improve financial performance, benchmarking may not immediately come to mind; but health care managers who have used benchmarking techniques to enhance the fiscal well-being of their institutions have found it to be invaluable.
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Health care leaders in Ann Arbor, MI, are returning to school so they can learn how to better care for a highly complex patient: the multisite, multispecialty academic medical center known as the U-M (University of Michigan) Health System.
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Closed intensive care units (ICUs) those in which an intensivist is the patients primary attending physician or ICUs that require mandatory critical care consultation with an intensivist experience lower mortality rates and shorter lengths of stay (LOS), according to a study published in the Nov. 6, 2002, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Physician staffing patterns and clinical outcomes in critically ill patients.
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Hospitals to share quality information; Hospitalists save money; Veterans Health Initiative announced.
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