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Consider making your ED more kid-friendly with these tips from Janice Frohman, MS, RN, administrative director for emergency services at WakeMed in Raleigh, NC, and Betty Jo Torres, RN, clinical director of the ED at Verdugo Hills Hospital in Glendale, CA:
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What can we say to an ambulance crew who bring a patient to our hospital when we think the patient would be better cared for at another facility? If we have a good reason, can we tell them to take the patient elsewhere without risking an EMTALA violation?
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It was a tragic story that received national media attention: A 9-month-old died of a morphine overdose administered in a hospital, and the error was traced back to an unseen decimal point in a physicians order.
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Favoring old-school etiquette over universal masking, some clinicians are urging a common-sense appeal to patients to use tissues and block coughs and sneezes in case severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) makes an unwelcome return.
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Hospital-based health care workers should consider how patients with known or suspect severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) will be handled from the point of initial contact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advises.
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In an unusual case with no obvious breaches in infection control, Group A Streptococcus was transmitted to a surgeon and scrub nurse after they performed a prolonged debridement procedure on a patient with necrotizing fascitis.
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Media images to the contrary, a chemical terrorist attack may not be so obvious as people choking in a subway or being hosed down and decontaminated in the streets.
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Despite an ongoing flap between fire safety and infection control, the likelihood of alcohol hand hygiene products contributing to a fire appears to be exceedingly remote, the authors report.
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With hospital administrators a key target audience, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations has slated a national infection control conference that will emphasize the importance of adequately funding an increasingly important program.
