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Strategies to help your nurses provide safer patient care
Lisa Mulcahy Healthcare AdministrationRNs are the backbone that makes every care team in your hospital run like clockwork. Yet these caregivers are often unsung heroes and heroines as well — they routinely work beyond their physical and emotional limits for the good of their patients, and do so without complaint. As a hospital administrator, however, it's crucial to realize that the more essential support you provide your RNs with, the sharper they'll be when it comes to caring for every patient — improving health outcomes across the board. Employ these proven points to help your nurses accomplish their best work every day.
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Discovery of key mechanism in embryonic skin development could improve…
Lynn Hetzler Medical & Allied HealthcareA new discovery of a key mechanism by which skin begins to develop in embryos could improve skin grafts. Developmental biologists are still working to understand the process by which embryonic progenitors coordinate cell fate specification and establish transcriptional and signaling competence. In a new study, researchers show that transcription factor DeltaNp63 profoundly alters the transcriptome and remodels thousands and thousands of open chromatin regions of Krt8+ progenitors during epidermal fate specification.
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Visibility as a path to healthcare career success
Keith Carlson Medical & Allied HealthcareBeing visible is a key to success that the savviest healthcare professionals adopt as their modus operandi. Visibility is multifaceted, occurring both within and outside your workplace, and the potential impact on your career trajectory is often woefully overlooked. Visibility within your place of employment creates new opportunities since those with influence may more readily take notice of your contributions. It also creates circumstances wherein you can leverage what you accomplish in your current position to curry favor with future employers.
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Do active workstations benefit employees?
Michael J. Berens Interior Design, Furnishings & FixturesMost of us engage in much less daily physical activity than our parents or grandparents did. Some individuals, such as office workers, students, educators and administrators, spend a great deal of the day seated, whether working, studying or in meetings. Over time, this can lead to serious health problems. Proponents of active workstations claim they promote increased physical activity throughout the day and improve wellness. Research, on the other hand, suggests the benefits can vary depending on the individual, the type of workstation and how it is used.
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US’ largest nonprofit integrated healthcare system to be carbon neutral…
Scott E. Rupp Healthcare AdministrationKaiser Permanente, the largest U.S. nonprofit integrated healthcare system, is putting plans in place to be carbon neutral by 2020 as part of a larger environmental initiative. The healthcare company is walking the walk in regard to its mission to provide the best care outcomes, as recent reports suggest that the healthcare industry accounted significantly to carbon dioxide generation that could lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths if not otherwise addressed.
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Is honesty the best policy?
Frank R. Myers Law Enforcement, Defense & SecurityEvery department operates with policies, standard operating procedures, guidelines, etc. However, no matter how strictly you follow these parameters, they do not "always" work from a practical standpoint. Is following them to the "T" always working in the best interest of the client/patients/public? Sometimes the decision-makers within the top ranks of a department do not have in-depth knowledge about what is taking place at the lower levels — in my case, serving in the emergency response division of the fire department for most of my career.
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Increasing antibiotic resistance leads to emergency department visits for…
Dorothy L. Tengler PharmaceuticalAntibiotics, which are among the most commonly prescribed medications, are often lifesaving, yet may cause unwanted side effects. Antibiotic use, or overuse, has led to increasing antibiotic resistance, one of the world’s most pressing public health problems. This means that illnesses that were once easily treatable with antibiotics are becoming more difficult to cure. Each year from 2011-2015, antibiotics led to approximately 70,000 emergency room visits for allergic reactions and other side effects in children.
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New Census data shows uninsured rate remains unchanged
Seth Sandronsky Medical & Allied HealthcareWhat has happened to the rate of insured Americans after a year of the GOP-controlled Congress trying to end the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare? The number of uninsured Americans has remained statistically unchanged, 28.5 million at any time in 2017 versus 28.1 million in 2016, or 8.8 percent of the populace both years, according to Census Bureau data released on Sept. 12. The uninsured rate was 13.3 percent in 2014, when most major provisions of the ACA began, the Census reported.
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Study reveals promise for ‘triple pill’ to treat high blood…
Dorothy L. Tengler Medical & Allied HealthcareHypertension is the most common of all the conditions of the circulatory system. An estimated 103 million adults have high blood pressure, nearly half of all adults in the United States. About 7 in 10 U.S. adults with high blood pressure use medications to treat the condition, but only about half (54 percent) of people with high blood pressure have their condition under control. However, a new treatment that combines low doses of three blood pressure-lowering medications shows promise for lowering high blood pressure more than usual care.
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Could ketamine help reduce opioid use in emergency rooms?
Tammy Hinojos Medical & Allied HealthcareAs opioid abuse continues to make headlines across the nation, medical researchers are busy looking at different, safer ways to treat patients who present with acute pain. A recent study in the journal Academic Emergency Medicine compares the analgesic effect of the drug ketamine to opioids in an emergency room setting. The conclusion? Ketamine could be a useful, safe alternative in many cases.
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