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    Nurse Quit
    Jan. 24, 2023
    Fast Stats - February 2023
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    Staff Safety
    Rick Dana Barlow
    Dec. 21, 2022
    Ergonomic, injury prevention, safety on par with infection prevention
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    Scc Positioning
    Dec. 21, 2022
    Handling the strain and pain of patient handling
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    Catheters
    Kara Nadeau
    Dec. 21, 2022
    As a device that enters the body, a catheter has the potential to cause infection, while some designs and purposes present greater risk than others. Clinical staff training and...
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    Spd
    Kara Nadeau
    Dec. 21, 2022
    Best practices get best results when applied with best efforts

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    Dec. 21, 2022
    Many Sterile Processing (SP) professionals are happy to share their visions of a “perfect” department. This often includes the most sophisticated processing equipment; enhanced...
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    Stephen M. Kovach
    Dec. 21, 2022
    Q“Can you explain the difference between the terms qualitative and quantitative?”AQualitative indicators are not presented as a number (e.g., consider a color change test of a...
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    Ce Steris
    Dec. 21, 2022
    Patient safety issues have led to the development of numerous tools to help technicians determine whether or not a medical device is verifiably clean and ready for high-level ...
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    Buyline
    Rick Dana Barlow
    Dec. 21, 2022
    Managing the healthcare supply chain within a provider enterprise/organization should not be like parenting underage children.To be successful in healthcare, supply chain requires...
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    Karen Conway
    Dec. 21, 2022
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