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Hyperbaric safety drills: Are you prepared?
Tiffany Hamm and Jeff Mize Healthcare AdministrationKnowing emergency procedures and drills are critical to safety in the workplace and for your patients. Performing drills can help in the following ways: 1. You can ensure that alarms/equipment are working properly. 2. Everybody knows their roles and responsibilities and becomes confident with how to respond to an emergency. 3. You can validate that your emergency procedures are effective or identify areas that need improvement. There are many emergency scenarios that hyperbaric staff should be prepared to respond to.
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How to build a culture of trust
Catherine Iste Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementToxic employees can infect other staff and bring down morale. The negative cultures they create can bring down the organization. But short of firing everyone and starting again, how do you build a team that trusts each other? Here are three steps to repairing the damage and building a culture of trust.
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15 studies retracted amid fears of organs’ origin
Chelsea Adams Medical & Allied HealthcareMore than a dozen scientific research papers have been retracted amid suspicions the organs used in the studies came from executed Chinese prisoners. During August, the journals PLOS ONE and Transplantation retracted 15 studies by Chinese authors after questions regarding the source of donated organs were posed. The studies were originally published between 2008 and 2014 and dealt with kidney and liver transplants. Two additional journals have also expressed concern regarding published studies.
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Researchers chase new treatments for urinary tract infections
Dorothy L. Tengler Medical & Allied HealthcareIn the United States, urinary tract infections (UTIs) account for more than 8-10 million office visits and 100,000 hospitalizations each year. Women are significantly more likely to experience a UTI than men. According to Professor Mark Schembri from the University of Queensland's School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, the problem of UTIs is magnified by increasing antimicrobial resistance, and antibiotic treatments can sometimes just stop working on some patients, with dire results. A recent study, performed in collaboration with researchers from the University of Utah, followed a long-term recurrent UTI sufferer, using genetic analysis to find out whether the infection came from a single bacterial "reservoir" in the body.
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Interior design’s widening impact on healthcare outcomes
Michael J. Berens Interior Design, Furnishings & FixturesOne of the biggest successes in interior design in recent years has been the recognition that the design of healthcare interiors can have a significant impact on patient experience and, consequently, health outcomes. For more than two decades, research and case studies have documented various ways in which patient-centered improvements to the interior environment can make positive contributions to patients’ physiological and psychological health. Over time, the list has grown as investigators, building on previous research, have explored patients’ responses in a variety of healthcare settings more deeply.
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Hurry on over to hospice — don’t wait
Lisa Cole Medical & Allied HealthcareWhen given a prognosis of likely less than six months to live, most people — once the shock subsides — seek cure. Some go to the ends of the earth in search of treatment; others spend every available dime to ensure they stay alive. It doesn’t matter how old or ill, we humans are hardwired for survival. Making this decision is each person’s own prerogative. As healthcare providers, though, it’s our duty to make sure we give folks choices. It’s our responsibility to be educated about hospice and palliative care and to become comfortable having this conversation with our clients — early on.
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Will AI and robots steal your healthcare job?
Keith Carlson Medical & Allied HealthcareRobots and artificial intelligence are becoming increasingly pervasive in most aspects of 21st-century life, including healthcare, medicine, and nursing. Fears abound that jobs are going to be lost to machines that can do our jobs 24/7 without needing to be paid or call out when the kids are home sick from school. Are these fears well-founded or are we looking down the wrong tech rabbit hole? The reality of healthcare technology in 2019 isn't necessarily a robot revolution, but things are changing and some concern is understandable.
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How to run a happy hospital
Lisa Mulcahy Healthcare AdministrationThe concept of a "happy hospital" in which employees, caregivers and patients report high levels of satisfaction in their work and experiences may seem like an impossible dream. But you can make it happen more easily than you think! Research from the University of Michigan on community hospitals found that patients are happiest when hospital employees have high morale. You're aiming for low employee turnover and joy at the job to meet your patient satisfaction goals.
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3 takeaways from the recent Business Roundtable statement
Catherine Iste Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementWhy should small businesses care about the recent statement from the Business Roundtable? After all, the lobbying group represents some of the largest and most powerful companies in America and thus is not necessarily representative of the thoughts, feelings and challenges of our country's smaller organizations. However, before moving on to the next headline, business and HR leaders should consider these three takeaways.
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HHS’ fight for drug pricing transparency continues amid unmitigated…
Scott E. Rupp PharmaceuticalThe Department of Health and Human Services recently filed an appeal in hopes of overturning a court decision from June that halted a rule to force drugmakers to list the prices of the drugs they advertise on television. HHS unveiled its plan to require listing the drug prices in direct-to-consumer TV ads last October and finalized the rule in May. The idea meant that pharmaceutical companies would have to include the wholesale acquisition price for a drug in their television ads if the drug cost exceeded $35 for a one-month supply.
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