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If youre looking for information on how your bloodborne pathogen exposures compare to other facilities, a new book offers a compilation of information.
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On3 Lateral Transfer Device; TotaLift II Transfer Chair;TotaLift PTS; AirMatt Lateral Transfer System; and more.
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Is your state next? Laws requiring disclosure of individual hospital infection rates are sweeping the nation. Four states Pennsylvania, Illinois, Florida, and Missouri have passed infection rate disclosure laws, and 20 others have introduced bills.
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For the first time in more than 60 years, the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses (AAOHN) in Atlanta is hosting an independent conference distinct from the occupational medicine physicians in the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
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When a patient needs to be moved from a bed to a stretcher, do your nurses reach across for the draw sheet and pull? If so, theyre at risk for debilitating back injury.
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These are the overall rankings of lateral-transfer devices from a study by Andrea Baptiste and John Lloyd of the Patient Safety Center of the James A. Haley VA Medical Center in Tampa, FL.
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The draft tuberculosis guidelines of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sparked widely ranging comments with divergent opinions from those who think N95 filtering facepiece respirators are inadequate, to those who think they are unnecessary.
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Elderly patients pose special challenges when it comes to falls, so your prevention strategy must take into account the factors unique to this population. This summary is offered by a professor of physical therapy at Temple University in Philadelphia.
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Open discussion of medical errors and other liability issues actually can help drive claims down, not up, as many risk managers fear, says the president of Enhanced Claim and Risk Services in St. Louis.
