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Take a Stand: No More Violence toward Healthcare workers

Take a Stand: No More Violence toward Healthcare workers

The CDC National Institute Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) defines workplace violence as “violent acts (including physical assaults and threats of assaults) directed towards persons at work or on duty”. The U.S. Department of Labor defines workplace violence as...

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Home Healthcare—Keeping Older Adults Safe in Hot Weather

Home Healthcare—Keeping Older Adults Safe in Hot Weather

Managing heat and humidity in the summer is a priority for everyone; for older adult home healthcare patients, it’s a lifesaving necessity. Every summer, healthinaging.org reports, nearly 200 Americans die of health problems caused by high heat and humidity; most are...

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Geriatric Nursing Care Requires Effective Communication

Geriatric Nursing Care Requires Effective Communication

When researchers at the Future of Nursing Campaign for Action discovered large gaps between what academia thought training nurses needed and what would actually be expected of those nurses in their first nursing positions, one issue had to do with language. At Action...

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The Need for Geriatric Nursing Care in America

The Need for Geriatric Nursing Care in America

“The increased proportion of older adults in the population need not present major problems,” authors Bennett and Flaherty-Robb assure readers of the Online Journal of issues in Nursing (OJIN) There’s a big IF at the end of that sentence, however: “IF we can provide...

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Studies Yield Insight into Team Communication in the OR

Studies Yield Insight into Team Communication in the OR

Medical errors in the perioperative setting more often result from miscommunication among providers than from lack of medical knowledge or technology failures.  Four studies serve to highlight the importance of implementing measures to improve team communication in...

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Improving Patient Care Through Team Communication

Improving Patient Care Through Team Communication

“The evolution in health care and a global demand for quality patient care necessitate a parallel health care professional development with a great focus on a patient centered teamwork approach,” observe the authors of a paper published by the Sudanese Association of...

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