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When the System Is Drowning You—This New Standard from the AACN May Be a LifeSaver

Minority Nurse

It’s about patient safety. These guidelines offer language and structure around five core drivers of safe staffing: patient complexity, physical environment, available support, cognitive load, and nurse experience. Critical Care Nurses’ Work Environment: 2008–2018. This isn’t about mandated ratios. link] Ulrich, B.,

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Addressing Patient Health Information In-Security at HIMSS 2018

Health Populi

Privacy and cybersecurity ranked the second highest priority to hospitals and healthcare providers polled in HIMSS 2018 Healthcare Leadership Survey. Providers put patient safety as #1. In January 2018, over 400,000 patient records were breached. In January 2018, over 400,000 patient records were breached.

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Safety in Health Care Ties Closely to Workforce Well-Being – Updates from Press Ganey and ECRI

Health Populi

The phrase “patient safety” summons up a list of common sources such as medication errors, surgical errors, health care-associated infections, diagnostic errors, among other adverse events and harms people experience in the course of receiving health care. “Safety is the foundation of healthcare.

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Magnet Status Matters: What Magnet Recognition Means for Hospitals and the Nurses Working There

Minority Nurse

Safety Across the Board. Hospitals are constantly striving to improve patient safety. However, a safer work environment extends beyond patient safety through lower nurse-to-patient ratios. Stop by booth 2018. A Magnet appointment is an investment into a safer physical work environment for the nurses.

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Happy National CBD Day! How CBD Fits Into the Retail Health Ecosystem

Health Populi

Gallup calls out the 2018 Farm Act which legalized the cultivation of hemp, which is one driving force behind the fast-growing supply side of CBD-based products.

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9 Cutting Edge Applications of AI In Pharmacy

Arkenea

AI can analyze patient data to predict and prevent adverse drug events. Pharmacovigilance: AI can help monitor and detect adverse drug reactions in real-time, allowing for quicker responses and improved patient safety. AI has brought a significant shift in the way pharmacists work and has improved patient outcomes in many ways.

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Primary care news round-up (13th June to 19th June 2024)

Practice Index

London drive to improve practice safety Practices in London have received a wide-ranging package of support to help them tackle threats to safety. The resources, from the Londonwide Local Medical Committees, deal with threats to the safety of staff and risks to patient safety from overworked staff.