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Nurse Discharged After “Hugging” Colleague 

Scrubs

He was discharged from Auckland City Hospital without conviction after accidentally making one of his coworkers uncomfortable. He was then discharged on the spot. A nurse in New Zealand is out of a job for hugging one of his colleagues too tightly. The incident occurred in February 2021.

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Nursing Students Create Clothes Drive for Discharged Hospital Patients

Scrubs

Four graduate nursing students, Emily Kilmer, Jillian Shirilla, Kayla Sallinger, and Jillene Saler, at Marquette College of Nursing recently started a clothes drive for discharged patients at five local hospitals. She said the project will soon be added to the school’s curriculum to encourage future students to give back to those in need.

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Navigating Medicare Advantage: Strategies for Hospitals to Tackle Growing Challenges

EvidenceCare

Say what you’re looking for and what the risk of discharge is in every single progress note. Build Multidisciplinary Teams for Discharge Planning Hospitals can streamline patient care by creating multidisciplinary teams focused on discharge efficiency. Every day, in every note, say why this patient can’t go home yet.

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Bill Clinton Hospitalized With Flu, Influenza A Surges Throughout U.S.

Forbes Healthcare

Former President Bill Clinton was discharged from the hospital after being treated for the flu. Meanwhile, here's the latest from the CDC about influenza cases increasing

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Mental Health Crisis in Miscarriage–an Unrepresented Patient Population

The Healthcare Blog

I handed them the same box of single ply tissues I was now sobbing into, as I handed them a pen to sign their discharge paperwork. Two weeks after my emergency room discharge, I continued to live life as if nothing happened, returning to work without any healthcare follow-up to address my emotional burden.

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STRONG HF – A Positive Trial that Does Not Help Clinical Medicine

Sensible Medicine

The Trial STRONG-HF studied two treatment strategies after a patient was discharged from the hospital after treatment for heart failure. I do know that if hospital systems were incentivized to help patients with heart failure, they would improve post-discharge follow-up to something along the lines of STRONG-HF. Here were the results.

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What I Read This Week

Sensible Medicine

In this group, medications were up-titrated to recommended doses within 2 weeks of discharge and four scheduled outpatient visits were completed in the 2 months after discharge. We should not conclude that patients should be started on 3-4 new meds prior to discharge. High intensity care was the GDMT group.

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