Featured Story | | Mistreatment Linked to Burnout in Emergency Medicine Residents | | The new research article, which was published by Annals of Emergency Medicine, is based on survey data collected from 7,680 emergency medicine residents. The study examined three types of mistreatment: discrimination; physical, verbal, or emotional abuse; and sexual harassment. |
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News & Analysis | | Inspector General Provides Recommendations for Nursing Home Infection Prevention | | Using Medicare claims data, the OIG looked at 15,086 nursing homes nationwide that had "extremely high" infection rates between spring and fall of 2020. Particularly, they looked at each facility's characteristics, whether they'd been cited with infection control deficiencies, as well as if their reported nursing hours met Medicare's minimum requirement. |
| ‘Tripledemic’ Reveals Critical Need for Better Patient Triage and Transfer Services | | During November 2022, hospitals in states such as Maryland, Massachusetts, and North Carolina were forced to set up triaging tents in their parking lots, postpone elective surgeries, or impose visitor restrictions owing to the high numbers of patients showing up in their EDs. In December, patients at one Oregon health system had to wait for more than two days to be transferred to other facilities for higher levels of care. In effect, the situation felt like 2020 again. |
| 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. |
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| Product Spotlight | | 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. Order now! | |
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