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The chair of the task force responsible for the fifth edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, David J. Kupfer, MD, and Darrel A. Regier, co-authors of a recent commentary in JAMA, suggested their perspective in the commentary title: "Why All of Medicine Should Care About DMS-5."
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Sue Dill Calloway, RN, Esq., BSN, MSN, JD, a nurse attorney and medical legal consultant in Columbus, OH,has had considerable experience in dealing with informed consent. Calloway recently presented an audio conference on "Informed Consent 2010: The Latest in CMS and Joint Commission Consent Requirements" for AHC Media, publisher of Medical Ethics Advisor.
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"I think most of us who take care of patients didn't get a very good education in excellent symptom management, so [many] people don't know how to take care of pain and dyspnea and anxiety and delirium and all these symptoms that truly, truly cause physical suffering," Mahon tells Medical Ethics Advisor.
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In a May 20 letter to Congress, the chairman of the U.S. Bishops' Committee on Pro-Life Activities called on Congress to remedy what he characterized asthe abortion and conscience flaws in the Patient Protection and Affordable Act (PPACA), according to a news release from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington, DC.
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A couple enters the emergency department the wife with a black eye and fresh bruises on her arm. She tells registration she fell down the stairs.
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STATEMENT: Healthcare Facilities (HCF's) will implement an interdisciplinary protocol addressing workplace violence prevention and response.
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With its latest survey, beginning May 25, 2010, and ending May 27, Holy Family Memorial had the most surveyors it ever had seven and its first life safety survey. Mary M. Schilder, quality management, accreditation/CME coordinator, and privacy specialist, says the surveyors, who visited "every single clinic and department," were "very educational."
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As of July 1, The Joint Commission's interim staffing effectiveness requirements are in effect for hospital and long-term care organizations, as it continues to research the issues associated with the standards.
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Experts Hospital Peer Review spoke with say some of the most common criminal activity in hospitals involves assaults by patients on other patients or staff; patients in psychiatric units; patients on drugs; prisoner patients; acts prompted by domestic violence; patients on drugs; and gang members or VIP patients. All present unique challenges.
