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Challenges of antibiotic stewardship in the ICU

Antibiotic stewardship in the intensive care unit setting poses unique challenges to intensivists and other ICU clinicians, recent research indicates.

Newsletter Articles

A primer on construction readiness and compliance in your facility

A new year brings new beginnings, and many hospitals entered 2019 either with new construction projects on the horizon or with projects already in progress. Lest you forget the power of the accreditation agencies that will be monitoring your efforts, though, you should be aware of many things that could affect those projects from a life safety perspective.

Air pressures, cleaning, and maintenance critical to sterile compounding areas

Work with your pharmacy and infection control teams to ensure your facility’s sterile compounding area maintains the proper air pressures in the correct areas, ceilings are air-tight, and issues with cleaning, maintenance, and supply storage are addressed.
 

Tune up your clinic security and safety for spring

Unless you take a good inventory of the safety issues around your facility, the medical clinic or laboratory can actually be a pretty dangerous place when the weather warms up. Here are the things safety experts say you should keep in mind to ensure your facility is safe this spring.


 

Event Spotlight

Workplace Violence Prevention Symposium 2019

The nation’s leading workplace violence prevention event is back for 2019!

Workplace Violence Prevention Symposium 2019 will teach attendees actionable crisis management strategies to handle worst-case scenarios of violence in the workplace, as well as the tactics and insight to spot and prevent employee abuse in-and-out of the workplace.

Register at http://hcmarketplace.com/workplace-violence-symposium


 

Mac's Safety Space

Waste not, want not: The rest of the CMS Emergency Preparedness picture

February 21, 2019


 

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