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Tips for Effective and Efficient Scope Cleaning
Preventing infections through better facility and scope-cleaning practices takes a concerted effort on the part of surgery centers. Leaders must make this a quality improvement project, and develop and train staff to follow best practices.
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How to Make Performance Evaluations Useful for Everyone
Performance evaluations should be conducted throughout the year and in a thoughtful way that increases their usefulness and helps staff improve their work skills.
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AORN Offers Safe Patient Handling Guidance
Perioperative nurses often sustain musculoskeletal injuries from lifting and moving patients. This is a problem that poses even more risks in a society with an obesity epidemic.
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Risk Management Techniques Can Help With Monitoring
Risk management should encompass a broad process of reporting adverse events and incidents, monitoring compliance and safety, and initiating quality improvement projects and activities.
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Surgery Centers Could Play Lead Role in Healthcare Transparency
Healthcare transparency is gaining public support, but still faces multiple obstacles to becoming a broad reality across the industry. Some surgery centers are leading the way in making costs and outcomes transparent through their websites.
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Educate Patients on Link Between HPV and Anal, Penile, Oral Cancers
Results of a new analysis led by researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston indicate that more than 70% of U.S. adults do not know that human papillomavirus causes anal, penile, and oral cancers.
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Time for Innovative Research on STI Vaccines
With more than 1 million new sexually transmitted infection cases diagnosed each day on a global basis, public health officials are calling for new approaches on the scientific front to combat the rising number of infections. Leaders from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases called for a “refocused, dedicated, and intensive biomedical research program” in a recent perspective piece.
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Discuss Vulvovaginal Health With Patients During Well Woman Visits
Results of a new study involving more than 1,500 postmenopausal women indicate that patients still are not comfortable in proactively discussing vaginal issues related to menopause with their healthcare providers.
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Turn Back the Rise in STIs
Public health officials are calling for a full-court press against the rising numbers of sexually transmitted infections. New data from the CDC indicate that combined cases of syphilis, gonorrhea, and chlamydia reached an all-time high in the United States in 2018.
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Women’s Health Clinic Closures Affect Cervical Cancer Markers
Results of a recent analysis indicate that more women were diagnosed with advanced stages of cervical cancer, mortality rates increased, and fewer women were screened for the disease following the closure of nearly 100 women’s health clinics across the United States from 2010 to 2013.