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NAM: National Academy of Medicine
Every year, hospital week is honored to coincide with Florence Nightingale’s May 12th birthday. She is credited as the founder of modern nursing, recognized as both an accomplished statistician and a pioneer of social reform. A reminder that healthcare is nothing without the heart of its nursing staff. As a testimony in practice, ratios of nurses to doctors to administer quality care and cost-effectiveness reveals a recommendation of 4:1. Queries as to ideal ratios for nurses to patients yield a 1:5 response. An effective nursing department is integral to quality care.
The operative word here is Quality in care. Given their essential roles in healthcare across the board, empowerment and safety are the key drivers to success as a whole. The Committee on the Work Environment for Nurses and Patient Safety published an apt paper entitled Keeping Patients Safe: Transforming the Work Environment of Nurses in which they highlight the grave importance of nursing roles and the diminishing trends that threaten patient safety.
Threat sources that contribute to patient safety include management, workforce, work processes, and organizational culture. Each of these categories are most impacted by nurses due to the sheer design of healthcare staffing structures. When speaking of management, the advisement is to heed evidence-based management and leadership practices. This directive echoes the need to adopt and evolve through knowledge sharing. It is a call to constant iterative change.
As they delve into the workforce aspect, the call is to maximize the capability of the workforce. This speaks to empowerment and efficiency measures. In order to elevate healthcare, we must alleviate antiquated, non-productive operational guardrails that hinder success in overall patient care.
This is intimately tied to their next threat point regarding work processes. All operations should be designed to reduce error. As the saying cautions, “too many cooks in the kitchen” is the sentiment echoed here. When work streams are overlapping and unclear, the chance for errors increases. Considering the recommendation of staffing ratios, role delineation, clear communication, and supported empowerment are the desired traits to deliver best in class care.
Their final summarized call to action references an organizational culture that is rooted in safety first. Culture is key. A petri dish of collaboration, respect, empowerment, proper tools, and support will grow a far superior service than one without.
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Microplastics Mayhem
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June 17, 2024
Chiefly Charge
It’s no easy task to be a Health Care Administrator. It’s a role that requires talent across every discipline. As Edcor explains, a day in the life of a health care administrator requires an acute attention to needs and the wherewithal to deliver across the board seamlessly. Health Care Administrators must survey every aspect of their facility to ensure safety and operational efficiency. This breadth of work spans across protection, compliance, and waste management alongside personnel and patient satisfaction. Every function must be calculated and calibrated for ultimate success.
February 29, 2024
Unchecked
Legislative history as recent as the late 1980’s, educates us about the general public’s unwavering concerns surrounding health impacts incurred by medical waste disposal. It was during this time in which the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) still held authority over medical waste handling. As such, under the EPA’s instruction, a short two (2) year waste-tracking study entitled, the Medical Waste Tracking Act (MWTA) of 1988 was conducted. It is crucial to understand some finer details of this orchestrated research. A nine-page directive was drafted and launched within one (1) year through the Reagan administration in response to public outcry following a seemingly deliberate dump of medical waste into the waters. Many concluding from the apparent evidence the intentional illegal disposal arose from companies’ desire to evade associated legal disposal fees of approximately $1500/ton.
May 18, 2023
COPILOT
Estimates of total waste in American healthcare range from $600 billion to almost $2 trillion annually, accounting for 17% to 53% of the $3.6 trillion spent annually on healthcare. While addressing sustainability and reducing waste is essential, healthcare providers always prioritize immediate patient needs and requirements.
By Sumita P. • September 25, 2023
RELEASE
As the world throttles efforts to achieving net-zero aims, we must highlight, despite years of effort, the plastics recycling rate in the US is still less than 10%. The roads to success are diverse and multipronged, ones which include minimizing undue material waste and exploring the power of plant based, biodegradable, and readily sustainable alternatives.
May 18, 2023
Ditat Deus
April 21, 2022, OSHA proposed a reconsideration and revocation of Arizona’s final approval status granted on June 20, 1985. OSHA aims to ensure that private sector employees in Arizona are receiving protections afforded to employees covered by Federal OSHA.
April 13, 2023
Lit Up
The latest headlines to follow those of illegal “fast-track” contracting, features a mushroom cloud of upcoming smoke. Billions in masks and gowns to be incinerated. A flame to signify deeply unethical woes. Royal College of Nursing chief executive Pat Cullen said nurses would find the report "galling", adding "if this money had been used more wisely and decent quality PPE bought in the first place, then nurses' lives might have been saved." Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner said: "Ministers have been carelessly burning taxpayers' money by the billion as unusable gowns, goggles, and gloves literally go up in flames."
April 13, 2023
Limb Node
After 30 years of employment model shifts, the UK’s HSC has augmented its personal protective equipment (PPE) at work regulations to encompass both limb (a) and limb (b) workers. On April 6th, 2022, the scope of the 1992 regulations was officially changed. The expansion recognizes that all extended contributors to any branch of an organization’s tree must be afforded protective means.
April 13, 2023
HAI-est Heights
Viruses aren’t the only thing going viral these days. As Wikipedia summarizes, a hospital-acquired infection, also known as a nosocomial infection, is an infection that is acquired in a hospital or other health care facility. To emphasize both hospital and nonhospital settings, it is sometimes instead called a healthcare–associated infection (HAI).
April 13, 2023
Green Guilds
Common Clean. Bibliophiles now have a common pursuit with the likes of compounding technicians. A recent PSA from National Geographic informs of arsenic laced collectibles whose toxicity is literally poisonous.
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