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Web Exclusive: Hospitals Make Employee Flu Vaccinations a Patient Safety Issue
The emergence of the H1N1 flu put a spotlight in early 2009 on a question: Should healthcare organizations do more in...
Magazine: Human Resources: Ferreting Out the Unfit
A national database is a tool, not a panacea, for healthcare worker background checks.
Consider Human Factors Engineering When Designing Patient Safety Projects
Barbara Wilson, PhD, RNC, assistant professor at Arizona State University's College of Nursing and Health Innovation...
Team overseeing national database of dangerous or incompetent caregivers is removed
Federal officials have removed the management team overseeing a national database of dangerous or incompetent...
Web Exclusive: ED Shooting Shows Why Confronting Hospital Violence Must Be A Priority
The Feb. 15 shooting inside the ED of Scotland Memorial Hospital in Laurinburg, NC, provides an unwelcomed...
70% of children's hospital workers say flu shots should be required, survey finds
Of 585 such workers surveyed at a large tertiary children's hospital, only 70% thought vaccination for influenza should...
Two Ways to Correct Safety Regulation Violators
Unless they work in a medical facility with perfectly compliant employees, safety directors and infection...
Employees Are Hospitals' Greatest Commodity in Patient Access
With the high staff turnover in patient access departments, employers need to seek out ways to provide as much...
With critical-care specialists in short supply, remote monitoring offers a solution
Remote monitoring is offering a high-tech solution to the growing problem of how to care for the sickest patients amid...
California nursing board executive officer resigns
The longtime executive officer of the embattled California Board of Registered Nursing resigned today, a day after Gov...

Book: Suicide Risk Assessment:
HCPro has created Suicide Risk Assessment: Practical Strategies and Tools for Joint Commission Compliance to help you...
Book: Statistics Basics: A Resource Guide for Healthcare Managers
A new addition to HCPro's Basics series, this logical book and CD-ROM are a primer for any healthcare manager embarking...
Book: Making Your Data Work:
This book and CD-ROM will help staff quickly and easily find and present valuable information to improve quality and...
Book: Anticoagulant Therapy FAQs
Anticoagulant Therapy FAQs: A Guide to Compliance with National Patient Safety Goal 3E is a question-and-answer guide...