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Advance Healthcare Network
America’s hospitals continue to make strides towards improving patient safety and quality for common conditions for which people enter the hospital, according to The Joint Commission’s 2016 Annual Report: “America’s Hospitals: Improving Quality and Safety." The report presents information on how well more than 3,300 Joint Commission-accredited hospitals performed on individual measures of patient care during 2015.
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Health IT Analytics
Patient safety and quality care are at the forefront of discussion in the healthcare industry today. From impact on the patients themselves to the bottom lines for organizations – healthcare organizations and providers are constantly striving towards improving quality of care and patient safety. There are several practices and processes that can be implemented to drive improvement in these areas, one method in which healthcare organizations and providers are increasingly turning to being patient safety organizations.
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NPR
For years, medical interns have been limited to working no more than 16 hours without a break to minimize the chances they would make mistakes while fatigued. But that restriction could soon be eased.
The group that sets the rules for medical residents proposed scrapping the 16-hour limit for interns, doctors in their first year of on-the-job training after finishing medical school.
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Reuters via Fox News
Hospitals that implement safe patient handling and moving policies may find these practices associated with fewer injuries among health care workers, a small study suggests.
Researchers analyzed data on 1,832 patient care providers at two U.S. hospitals - one that started a safety program and one without these policies in place.
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Journal of Emergency Medical Services
The initial dispatch was for an unknown emergency, with law enforcement en route. Law enforcement arrives on scene and finds one patient with a gunshot wound to the right leg with arterial hemorrhaging.
The background story, explained only to the audience, is that a woman and her boyfriend are looking to steal a baby. They identify a woman who is 8.5 months pregnant, and drug her with tramadol.
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Blended Learning with vSim® for Nursing and Scenarios from the National League for Nursing.
When students experience the same patient encounter through different technologies, it allows them to reinforce their knowledge and gradually build confidence and competence.
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Insights
Virtual reality headsets aren’t just the latest consumer tech craze. Innovative organizations across industries are finding ways to put them to good use, and medical schools are no exception. Simulation has always been a focal point of medical training — future doctors get hands-on experience in a controlled environment by working with mannequins or cadavers, or by using task training software. It’s not the real thing, but it’s close.
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Forbes
Innovation in healthcare is a funny thing. On the one hand you have a world where scarcely a day goes by where a new innovation isn’t announced, whether it’s the use of big data and machine learning to examine medical scans and imaging, or the rise of telemedicine or even the increasing use of robotics, whether in surgical or care home scenarios. On the other, you have an industry that still struggles with Baumol’s cost disease and has not benefitted from technology to the extent that other industries have.
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The Bengal
Taylor Day slips on a lab coat and starts her shift at the Idaho State University's School of Nursing’s simulation lab.
She’s already taken inventory of various silicone body parts and painted a training model, giving his wincing face eyebrows, black eyes and a leaking head wound. High school seniors will visit the lab today and see her handiwork. Cleaning detachable bedsores and applying angry, chartreuse bruising to a manikin is all in a day’s work for this School of Nursing Career Path Intern.
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Pocket Nurse helps thousands of health education programs operate efficiently with an extensive catalog of products that provide everything an educator needs. For more information visit pocketnurse.com, call 1-800-225-1600, or email cs@pocketnurse.com.
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University of Illinois
Imagine needing to perform a surgery looking through the tunnel of a microscope. You need to manipulate your surgical tools within the space of a pea or less, and there’s no tactile feedback. You also need to use both feet to control certain features of your equipment. It’s not a task that you’d want to perform on a live patient for the first time, is it?
This need to hone fine skills before treating patients underlies the creation of the Cless Ophthalmic Surgical Training and Simulation Center housed in the Eye and Ear Infirmary.
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Modern Healthcare
Burnout, defined as physical and emotional exhaustion as a result of prolonged stress, has become shockingly prevalent among U.S. physicians. Doctors experiencing professional burnout not only put their own well-being at risk, but also that of their patients.
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