-
As of July 1, first-year medical residents may be getting a better night's sleep. New rules limit duty hours for interns to a 16-hour shift, ban them from moonlighting, and require them to have at least 8 hours free between duty hours.
-
Hospitals will need to retrain all their employees on chemical hazards when the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration finalizes its changes to the Hazard Communication Standard.
-
In the May issue of HEH, we reported on an effort to reduce sharps injuries by using disposal containers with a better design. A reader subsequently posed a question: Would you administer post-exposure prophylaxis to an employee who receives a sharps injury from an unknown source, such as a sharp protruding from a container?
-
-
Today's hospitals are facing a shrinking pool of healthcare dollars along with increased scrutiny from Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial payers and strong penalties for fraud and abuse.
-
When patients are admitted to the hospital inappropriately, the paperwork involved to correct the error brings to mind the saying "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."
-
If you have the emergency department volume and the staffing, covering the emergency department 24 hours a day, seven days a week is optimal, according to Joanna Malcolm, RN, CCM, BSN, consulting manager, clinical advisory services for Pershing, Yoakley & Associates in Atlanta.
-
The case management department at Lee Memorial Health System in Fort Myers, FL, has been able to demonstrate a savings of $4.5 million as a result of having case managers in the emergency department.
-
Arm yourself with data before approaching the administration about establishing an emergency department case management department, increasing staff, or changing hours.
-
As part of Memorial Health System's adoption of the Toyota Lean Processes, the case management department at Saddleback Memorial Hospital in Laguna Hills, CA, has standardized work flow for discharging patients and is piloting the process on one unit.
