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What would happen in a nurse’s perfect world?

Scrubs

Patients would not be repeat offenders (admissions). Physicians would round on their patients all at predicted/scheduled times. Here’s what I would have in my perfect nursing world : I’d never get pulled to work in another unit. Staffing would never be lacking. Patient families would be amicable. Supplies would never run short.

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Most Important

Sensible Medicine

He was a direct admission after an electrophysiologic (EP) study. They found a medication that made it harder to induce VT and sent him up to the medical floor for admission and monitoring with instructions to initiate that medication. During the study the cardiologists used electric impulses to induce VT.

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Highs and Lows

Sensible Medicine

I came to her room for rounds in the morning. “We have to take her to court,” her social worker said after rounds. 1] The legal details of involuntary psychiatric admission and treatment vary from state to state. Her hospital course was uneventful, and she made good therapeutic use of her time on the unit.

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Preparing for CERT Audits and Practicing Compliant Documentation

EvidenceCare

From understanding the audit requirements to implementing technology for streamlined admission documentation , this article offers actionable strategies to ensure hospitals are well-prepared for the rigorous evaluation process. Think of your documentation as the ironclad defense for your hospital admissions.

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Friday Reflection 38: Yesterday’s Solutions; Today’s Problems

Sensible Medicine

You couldn’t help but feel you were being adopted by a family, apprenticed before admission to a guild, pledged to a select society. Digital X-rays have turned radiologists — once valued colleagues with whom you would round post call — into mere digital signatures.

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Under New Management: Nurses Share What They Like (and Dislike) About Their Managers

Scrubs

walking into the COVID ICU unit with ‘the suits’ (admin) doing ‘environmental rounds’ (and I mean checking the patient fridge for expired items and nurses’ station for covered cups of water) during a horrendous 4th wave of cases while we are out of ratio and proning everybody, not even stopping to say, “How are you?”

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Primary care news round-up (10th October to 16th October 2024)

Practice Index

Emergency departments experienced their busiest ever September, receiving 530,824 emergency admissions. The post Primary care news round-up (10th October to 16th October 2024) appeared first on GP Practice Management Blog. As a result of this, NHS England has renewed calls for the public to take up vaccination offers.