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A Critical Perspective on ‘Zero Tolerance’ Policies for Violence and Aggression in Nursing

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

The phrase seemingly originated in 1982 1 and has remained in use to the present day – promoted as the key strategy needed to eliminate the violence and aggression risk and to keep staff safe. The false promise of zero tolerance is that it presents a route that nurses believe they can follow to do this. 2022; Norman I, Ryrie I.

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NHPCO Honors Empath Health’s Rafael Sciullo with Hospice Leadership Award

NHPCO

Award Presented During NHPCO’s Leadership and Advocacy Conference. Alexandria, Va) – In recognition of a lasting legacy of leadership and innovation in the field of hospice and palliative care, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) today honors Rafael J. For Immediate Release: March 8, 2022.

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Idiopathic Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss – Is it time to challenge definitions of hearing recovery?

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

Sudden sensorineural hearing loss affects an estimated 5 per 100,000 people annually (1) and usually presents as unilateral loss, affecting both genders equally, with average age of onset of 40 years (1,2). 2013) Steroids for idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss (Review) The Cochrane Collaboration. References 1. Tsai Do, B.,

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These Nursing Associations Connect You to Fellow Pros and Valuable Resources

Nurse.com

American Nurse Scholarships were created in 2013 through funding from Fresenius Kabi USA, Carolyn Jones and DigiNext LLC, with proceeds from book “The American Nurse: Photographs and Stories” by Jones and her film “The American Nurse: Healing America.” Medical/Surgical. Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses (AMSN). Nephrology. annanurse.org.

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Regulators Taking Aim at Hospice PE Backers

Hospice News

With this growing influence comes renewed scrutiny about their impact on patient care, federal policymakers have indicated. Ginn made these comments in a presentation at the Bank of America Securities Annual Healthcare Conference in Las Vegas.

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Roger Chou’s Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest: How the CDC’s 2016 Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain Lost Its Clinical and Professional Integrity

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Lewis PhD, Beverly Schechtman and Carrie Judy “I'm present. Ironically, in 2013 Chou had co-authored an AHRQ-sponsored article in which he stated, “Since evidence syntheses depend on the published literature accurately representing what’s known about medical therapies, reporting biases threaten the veracity of what we know (italics ours, 28).

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Top Home Health Nurse Documentation Updates for 2022 That Actually Affect Your Paycheck

The Productive Home Health Nurse

To place quantities to all of this text, the number of agencies providing home health care in the United States grew from 8,314 in 2005 to 12,613 in 2013 with Medicare expenditures for home health care services alone nearly doubling from 9.7 billion in 2001 to about $18.3 billion in 2012. And outrageously in 2018, the U.S.