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CSI Academy Teams to Focus on Implementing HWE Standards

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The HWE standards are the cornerstone of AACN’s comprehensive HWE initiative, a long-term commitment to creating environments where nurses can provide the highest standards of safe, compassionate patient care while being fulfilled at work. We aim to change that.”

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Understanding Nurses Experiencing Moral Injury

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The term describes the challenges of simultaneously knowing what care patients need but being unable to provide it due to constraints beyond a caregiver’s control. Nurses enter the healthcare industry with an internal yearning to care for others. Burnout has been discussed in the healthcare industry for many years.

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Understanding Nurses Experiencing Moral Injury

Nurse.com

The term describes the challenges of simultaneously knowing what care patients need but being unable to provide it due to constraints beyond a caregiver’s control. Nurses enter the healthcare industry with an internal yearning to care for others. Burnout has been discussed in the healthcare industry for many years.

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

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Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Wrongful Death Suit Calls Out Breached Standards of Care

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She was treated with repeated blood transfusions and placed on a ventilator, among other medical interventions, but she died in the hospital two weeks later. Patient’s Husband Files Wrongful Death Case. The patient’s husband filed a lawsuit against the physician and the healthcare facility.

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Case Management Fast-Growing Role, Despite Pandemic Difficulties

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And throughout the COVID-19 pandemic , case managers have assumed even greater, more visible roles as hospitals and healthcare facilities have struggled to navigate unfamiliar terrain. By now, the hurdles that healthcare workers in virtually every setting faced at the onset of the pandemic are well-documented.

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POLST Evidence and Update: Kelly Vranas, Abby Dotson, Karl Steinberg, and Scott Halpern

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Abby: This is absolutely a conversation tool and it’s a conversation starter, but then it documents the ability to document that conversation over time and potentially connect dots between care teams when you have this in the electronic healthcare record. It’s just an interference with good patient care.

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