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Comply with these stroke evaluation time targets recommended by the Bethesda, MD-based National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke.
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At Davis Memorial Hospital, case managers work 10-hour shifts, four days a week, often choosing their own days off.
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When Millie Brown, a former manager in the billing department at Children's Health Care of Atlanta, became director of patient access at the hospital about two years ago, it was natural that she would look for opportunities for improvement in the quality of registration data.
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Do stroke patients in your emergency department (ED) always receive a computed tomography (CT) scan within 25 minutes, and do you have results within 45 minutes? If not, you're not following recommended time frames for stroke care - a scenario commonly occurring in community EDs, according to a just-published study.
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Nursing standing orders for ED patients with stroke symptoms at Community Medical Center in Toms River, NJ.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued infection control guidance for managing people in the health care setting and in the community who may be infected with the monkey pox virus. In a late June news briefing, a CDC official said the agency was investigating 33 cases of possible human infection with the virus in Wisconsin, Indiana, and Illinois.
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If youre having trouble retaining and recruiting ED nurses, it may be time to closely examine your violence prevention strategies. The University of Alberta (Canada) Faculty of Nursing surveyed more than 9,000 nurses.
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Purpose: To establish staff guidelines for the management of patients in need of a psychiatric assessment that will help ensure the safety of patients and staff in the Emergency Department.
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Purpose: To maintain safety and security for all individuals in the hospital environment, in the least restrictive and safest way during an episode of escalation.
