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While most same-day surgery programs are struggling to recruit and retain nurses, managers at some facilities are watching nurses jump at positions, even when the specific positions werent their first choice. Whats their secret? Magnet status.
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In this age of a nursing shortage, the same-day surgery program and other departments at Catawba Valley Medical Center in Hickory, NC, enjoy the enviable reputation as a place that nurses want to work.
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This column addresses specific questions related to Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) implementation.
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The Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations is targeting infection control as a key focus for revision of standards and enhancement of sentinel event reporting efforts.
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This issue of ED Legal Letter is the second of a four-part series related to pitfalls associated with evaluating patients with abdominal pain. The series will analyze high-risk and life-threatening disease processes that ED physicians will encounter in their daily practice. Part two explores gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding and the necessity of Hemoccult testing; the diagnosis and treatment of aortic aneurysms and abdominal trauma; and extra-abdominal causes of abdominal pain.
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One of the major changes promoted in the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report Responsible Research: A Systems Approach to Protecting Research Participants, is a call for federal legislation expanding protections to all human subjects involved in research, regardless of funding or setting.
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It would seem that two recent publications by the Office of Inspector General (OIG) indicate a desire by the agency to be less stringent when it comes to the use of inducements for clinical trial participation involving Medicare and Medicaid patients.
