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The air is clear in public buildings, restaurants, and even many bars across America. So why should anyone light up even within a few steps of a hospital?
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The Joint Commission is trying to solve the Achilles heel of hand hygiene: monitoring compliance by health care workers.
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As part of an increasing emphasis on patient empowerment and education, infection control professionals have seen arcane terms such as "nosocomial" de-emphasized in favor of clearer language.
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Hospitals must act swiftly to protect health care workers from infectious diseases, even when the scientific evidence is unclear about transmission.
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When a day care worker reported to employee health at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH, with a severe, spasmatic cough that had lasted more than two weeks, an employee health nurse immediately thought of pertussis.
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n extensively drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis (XDR-TB) is virtually untreatable and poses a threat to worldwide TB control.
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Even a mild pandemic could result in school closings, cancellation of public gatherings, voluntary quarantines, and absenteeism of employees who must leave work to care for children or elderly relatives, according to interim guidance on community mitigation released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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If your hospital doesn't have a palliative care program yet, it soon will, and that may mean changes in the way you triage your patients.
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By placing a pharmacist within the department to review medications being given to patients, the ED at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena, CA, has achieved more than a 50% reduction in errors in six months.
