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All persons entering the Level 3 Isolation room must sign the Avian Influenza Contact Log, which will be collected by Infection Control. This log will be initiated and posted by the charge nurse in the area.
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The first sign of an outbreak in your hospital may come from your employees. A cluster of sick workers in one unit raises an alarm.
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Employee safety is patient safety. After all, those employees are your patients, and by improving their work environment and teaching them about safety measures, you help them protect their patients.
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The market for nurses in Southern California is vicious. Hospitals try to entice them away from competitors by offering signing bonuses, car payments, and even closing costs on home purchases.
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Edwin G. Foulke Jr., a South Carolina attorney who represented businesses in their dealings with the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), received U.S. Senate confirmation as the new OSHA administrator.
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Washington has become the first state in the nation to require hospitals to use patient transfer equipment "instead of manual lifting"; as part of a safe patient handling program. The law, which easily passed the state House and Senate, with support from unions and the hospital association, is a landmark for the safe patient handling movement.
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Malpractice insurers are stinging from charges of profiteering from insurance premiums by new data showing costs rising dramatically as claims drop.
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These are the key findings in the recent report from the Center for Justice and Democracy in New York City.
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Electronic safeguards for e-mail in health care, like sophisticated encryption systems, are one piece of the security puzzle but cannot be the entire solution, according to the experts.
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Patients undergoing chemotherapy to fight leukemia and lymphoma are sometimes being accidentally injected with a powerful cancer-fighting drug in an incorrect way that results in death or permanent paralysis.
