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Wednesday, February 1, 2023

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It’s Official: COVID-19 Public Health Emergency to End on May 11
As promised, the White House is giving ample notice—the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) will end on May 11. In a statement January 30, the White House said it would end the PHE, which has allowed hospitals and other providers a number of compliance and other waivers to help ease the burden on healthcare.
 

News & Analysis

Hospital EDs Are Taking a Proactive Approach to Violence
At Sturdy Memorial Hospital in Attleboro, Massachusetts, administrators are tapping into the electronic health record platform to identify ED patients with a history of threatening behavior, which pushes out alerts to the care team. Those alerts not only give providers advance warning, but can help them call in behavioral healthcare specialists to help those patients.
Battling Burnout: ANA Arms Nurses With an Effective Weapon
A prevention program that reduced burnout in more than 52% of pilot program participants is now available as a permanent benefit to the entire American Nurses Association (ANA) membership.
Pandemic's Toll: 55.3% of Surveyed Healthcare Workers Report Subthreshold PTSD Symptoms
The recent study, which was published in the Journal of Psychiatric Research, is based on survey data collected from 852 healthcare workers from January 2021 to February 2021. The survey participants were recruited from emergency departments affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and emergency medical service agencies in several states, including Maryland, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Virginia, and West Virginia.
PSQH: The Podcast

PSQH: The Podcast Episode 71 – Using Technology to Prevent Patient Falls

On episode 71 of PSQH: The Podcast, Rosemary Kennedy, Chief Health Informatics Officer, Connect America, talks about how technology can help prevent patient falls.
Upcoming webinar

Addressing Workplace Conflict: A Fireside Chat

In this Feb. 28 fireside chat, AlGene Caraulia, vice president of Integration and Sustainability for Crisis Prevention Institute, discusses how healthcare organizations can identify, prevent, and de-escalate crises in the workplace. Learn how to develop skills to recognize and respond to everyday crisis situations with strategies including nonviolent crisis intervention and verbal intervention.
 

Industry Events

Thursday, 2/16 - International Conference on Patient Safety in Healthcare

Saturday, 3/4 - 2023 World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit

Tuesday, 4/11 - SHEA Spring 2023 Conference

 

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Drug Diversion Prevention in Healthcare, Second Edition

Drug Diversion Prevention in Healthcare, Second Edition is loaded with tools and info showing you how to make a solid prevention plan. This edition also contains case studies and real-life examples of how healthcare staff diverted drugs, how they were caught, and the steps taken afterwards.

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