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Why Creating a Trauma-Informed Environment is Crucial to Helping Traumatized Nurses Heal
by HealthLeaders Media, October 18, 2021
For nurse and hospital leaders to help their nurses handle and heal from trauma, they must create a trauma-informed culture. A trauma-informed program, system, or person has a knowledge and understanding of trauma and its far-reaching effects, which, in some nurses is caused by seeing patients die; tending to patients who can’t get relief from symptoms; patient and family aggression; feeling overextended because of inadequate nurse-to-patient ratios; frustration; and helplessness, according to a 2017 study.
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Sponsored by - GOJO IndustriesPlant the Seeds of Change with Just-in-Time Coachingby PSQH, October 18, 2021
By Lori Moore, MPH, BSN, RN, CPPS Hand hygiene has been recognized as one of the most important measures to reduce germs in healthcare facilities, and educating healthcare workers to the basic fundamentals has become a cornerstone of hand hygiene programs.1-2 While providing education and conveying the importance and need for hand hygiene is … Continued
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‘Are You Going to Keep Me Safe?’ Hospital Workers Sound Alarm on Rising Violence
by Kaiser Health News, October 15, 2021
COVID unit nurses also have shouldered extra responsibilities during the pandemic. Duties such as feeding patients, drawing blood and cleaning rooms would typically be conducted by other hospital staffers, but nurses have pitched in on those jobs to minimize the number of workers visiting the negative-pressure rooms where COVID patients are treated.
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New IDSA President: ‘The COVID-19 Pandemic Is Not Going Anywhere Fast’
by HealthLeaders Media, October 13, 2021
Daniel McQuillen, MD, took on the leading role at the IDSA last week. In addition to serving as president of the IDSA, he is a senior physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Beth Israel Lahey Health and Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, and an assistant professor of medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston.
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How Hunterdon Medical Center Helps Its Nurses Cultivate Resiliency
by HealthLeaders Media, October 12, 2021
Hospitals and health systems should foster nurses’ resilience by integrating support and education—not only to help them successfully cope with their high-stress job, but to provide high-quality care, the study says.
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Industry Friday 11/05/2021Medication Safety in Transitions of Care (virtual)
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