Health Leaders | Nursing

OCTOBER 19, 2023

A new report published today in the American Journal of Infection Control demonstrates that implementing a dedicated team of nurses to assist with central line insertions can reduce patients' risk of developing bloodstream infections due to those central lines.

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Health Leaders | Nursing

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Teamwork, along with communication and awareness, can build an effective infection prevention program. Infection prevention and control is fundamental to providing safe and high-quality patient care. HealthLeaders: What are the most common hospital-acquired infections? HL: What else can hospitals do to reduce infections?

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Health Leaders | Nursing

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Indeed, inpatient telemedicine programs were popular during the pandemic, as health systems sought to separate infected patient populations from doctors and nurses to curtail the spread of the virus. George says OSF looked to other health systems for guidance and found that many are at the same stage of development.

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Health Leaders | Nursing

AUGUST 14, 2023

If you think about years gone by when we were using mercury thermometers to take people's temperature, we didn't think anything about it; it enabled us to get an accurate value in terms of whether someone might have an infection. Nowadays, we've got different technology that does that in real time, and we think nothing about it.

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Health Leaders | Nursing

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Telesitting, telenursing, and virtual nursing programs saw a dramatic increase during the pandemic, when hospital leadership sought to reduce contact between infected patients and their staff to curb the spread of the virus. [See also: Can Virtual Nursing Help Hospitals Address Workforce Challenges? Please join the community at [link].

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Health Leaders | Nursing

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

When a patient has chosen to end a pregnancy after the amniotic sac — or water — has broken, Pettker said, "any delay that might be added to a procedure that is inevitably going to happen places that person at risk of serious, life-threatening complications," including sepsis and organ infection.

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Health Leaders | Nursing

OCTOBER 2, 2023

"If you think about years gone by when we were using mercury thermometers to take people's temperature, we didn't think anything about it; it enabled us to get an accurate value in terms of whether someone might have an infection," Benton says. For nursing to be successful in the future, we have to embrace it.

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