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Occupational medicine physicians and infection preventionists agree: It isn't a good policy to exclude "at-risk" employees from certain duties due to potential exposure to novel H1N1.
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Being a nurse's aide or orderly is the most injury-prone job in America. Those aides are four times as likely to be injured on the job as the average worker, and their rate of injury tops freight haulers and handlers, and construction laborers.
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The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is considering a revision to its glutaraldehyde recommended exposure limit (REL) and has issued a Federal Register notice asking for information on glutaraldehyde research, use, safety training, and manufacture.
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Emergency practitioners should be aware of the risks that the AMA patient may present, as well as their responsibilities to limit their liability and ensure the patient's best care.
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The confidential nature of the therapeutic relationship between physician and patient is an integral component of the practice of medicine. The landmark Tarasoff case established a legal duty for a physician to breach this confidential relationship to warn third parties from foreseeable violence.
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This is the first in a two-part series on disclosing errors to emergency department patients. This month, we cover whether liability risks are, in fact, decreased by this practice. Next month, we will give specific strategies to reduce liability risks when apologizing to a patient.
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The Joint Commission had said it would not be adding any new National Patient Safety Goals for 2010. And it didn't. And most of the changes it did make it characterizes as mostly editorial, clarifying language. But there are some significant changes. Chief among those: Of 20 NPSGs, there are now 11.
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Due to continuing reports of wrong-site surgeries and continuing concern from the field, The Joint Commission in 2009 took a look at its Universal Protocol and its No. 1 purpose to prevent wrong-site, wrong-person, or wrong-procedure surgeries.
