Believe it or not, the answer to the question this article’s headline poses has been debated for at least the past 20 years. Many research studies have been commissioned to find the answer and to build a business case for patient safety. Hospitals must justify every dollar they spend according to evidence-based methods, even if […]
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Improving Patient Care Through Nurse Wellbeing Taking care of those who care for patients is becoming a higher priority for many healthcare organizations. Efforts to improve nurse wellbeing are in response to increased evidence of fatigue and burnout among these care providers, conditions that lead to staff turnover, medical errors and even incidents of suicide.
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A recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study about drug-resistant germs (CDC, 2019) continuing to pose a threat to patient safety renewed the Vitalacy team’s attention to a 2018 study specifically related to hand hygiene. “Increasing tolerance of hospital Enterococcus faecium to handwash alcohols” (Pidot et al., 2018) presents data showing that infections caused
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