How can you protect your organization from those seeking to work in health care with falsified certifications of education and/or experience? The first step is to develop and follow a robust and comprehensive medical credentialing program.
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Perioperative Staff Shortages Persist
The aging American population, relatively high rates of medical insurance and the desire of patients to remain active all drive the increasing demand for surgical care. But the practice of surgery requires sufficient numbers of qualified staff and we are experiencing shortages of perioperative nurses at present.
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Updated Hand Hygiene Recommendation: How It Affects SPD
Research shows how hands can contaminate the environment, and recommendations are provided to reduce that risk. This article identifies some key changes to the SHEA/IDSA/APIC recommendations that directly affect Sterile Processing (SP) professionals.
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Make Succession Planning Easier, Invest in Your Staff
Fresh insights into ways that surgery centers can prepare for the inevitable leadership transitions they will experience, whether those involve key clinical staff or the ASC’s physician partners.
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Do You Wash Your Gloves? FDA Research Offers New Guidance
Research has shown that washing donned medical gloves with liquid cleaning solutions before removal can reduce the risk of health care workers contracting their patients’ infectious disease, especially during lengthy shifts or public health emergencies.
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Spotlight On: Charles ‘Wes’ Foster, MSN, RN, CMSRN, OCN Emeritus Director, Medical-Surgical Nursing Certification Board (MSNCB) Residential Faculty, Mesa Community College
Foster leverages his own experiences to help instill in his students a sense of the variety and freedom that exists in a nursing career. He reminds them frequently to “listen to what speaks to you” when setting the courses for their lives, and to “find what makes their hearts happy.”
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