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Nurse occupationally infected with Ebola blasts hospital corporation in lawsuit allegations
A lawsuit by Nina Pham, RN, against Texas Health Resources (THR) includes some explosive allegations regarding her occupational Ebola infection after caring for an infected patient at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas in early October 2014.
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‘Do no harm’ — with high reliability initiatives Joint Commission seeks better pt, HCW safety
When they take the Hippocratic oath, doctors vow to “first, do no harm,” and some hospitals are taking that sentiment seriously. As with the aviation and nuclear power industries, which have zero tolerance for accidents, the hospitals seek to be “high-reliability” organizations that are obsessed with safety.
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Ebola nurse lawsuit alleges inadequate protection ‘negligent’
Hospitals are rethinking their approach to employee health and infection control.
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Nurse fatigue a ‘huge’ threat to patient safety, but can be addressed
When fatigue is addressed in the healthcare workplace, attention often goes first to physicians and particularly medical residents who are sleep-deprived and overworked. Increasingly, risk managers are focusing on the patient safety threats posed by nurses and other staff members who are too tired to do their jobs properly.
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New type of ED unit focuses on the most critically ill patients, decompressing ED
Much of the discussion surrounding emergency medicine seems to focus on how to keep lower-acuity patients out of the ED, or at least how to move them through to discharge faster. While it is true that many EDs see a high percentage of low-acuity or fast-track patients, there are also EDs that are overwhelmed with patients at the other end of the acuity spectrum. The University of Michigan Health System’s (UMHS) adult ED in Ann Arbor is a case in point.
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Case management can work hand-in-hand with patient advocacy
As health systems, payers, employers, and even unions look for case management-style models for improving their populations’ health, some are hiring RNs to serve in a patient advocate role.
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Case managers work with doctors, other providers to improve care quality
Linking hospital providers with community physicians is challenging for transitional case management, but one organization has found that having the case managers look out for patients both in and out of the hospital helps keep hospital readmission rates at a low range — 3% to 5% — for a senior population.
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To improve population health, CMs find “it takes a community”
As the Affordable Care Act nudges health care organizations toward preventive care and efficient, holistic solutions, some case managers are finding that they can do more for their patients if they seek help from all available community resources.
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Nurses text, send images from the OR with new app
Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children in Orlando, FL, uses a new app that feeds information from the operating room directly to the smartphones of a patient’s family and loved ones. It’s called EASE, which stands for Electronic Access to Surgical Events.
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Study: Minimally invasive surgery could lower healthcare costs by hundreds of millions a year
A new analysis of surgical outcomes nationwide concludes that more use of minimally invasive surgery for certain common procedures can dramatically reduce postoperative complications and shave hundreds of millions of dollars off the nation’s healthcare bill.