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Let’s Talk!  The 2010 Campaign for Patient Safety

By Megan M. Krischke, contributor

While patient safety is top priority in the day-to-day routines of healthcare workers, Patient Safety Awareness Week gives medical staff and patients alike an opportunity to refine skills, learn something new and celebrate achievements and advances in patient safety. Sponsored by the National Patient Safety Foundation, hospitals and healthcare organizations across the United States are encouraged to participate in this annual event, March 7-13, 2010.
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Key Solutions for Decreasing Hospital Readmissions

By Debra Wood, RN, contributor

Nearly one-fifth of Medicare patients, equaling 2.4 million older adults, are rehospitalized within 30 days of discharge from an acute-care facility. Ninety percent of those readmissions are for acute, potentially-preventable problems, and end up costing the health care system billions of dollars. Healthcare Briefings looks at the key solutions needed to reduce these costly occurences.
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Keeping Nurses Safe from Workplace Violence

By Susan Kreimer, MS, contributor

Verbal and physical abuse continues to escalate in the whirlwind of healthcare change, compelling some nurses to question their calling.

A new survey found that the abuse nurses confront on the job often goes unreported. The survey appears in the February 2010 issue of the Journal of Clinical Nursing.  
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