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A renewed focus on preventing sharps injuries in the operating room

December 14, 2017

In July, the American Nurses Association (ANA) hosted its first in-person Sharps Injury (SI) Prevention Stakeholder meeting. Experts, advocates, specialists, and frontline nurses from varied backgrounds with global…

Environment, health, and safety

May 11, 2010

Nurses today are indeed challenged to do no harm to the sick as well as the healthy—just in the course of daily life and work.

Fall prevention safety bundle: Collaboration leads to fewer falls

July 12, 2017

At St. Joseph’s Hospital and Health Center in Syracuse, NY, we’re committed to providing a safe, comfortable, caring environment for our patients. We believe all patients deserve to be cared…

Guns and nurses

December 27, 2016

The ambush shootings in downtown Dallas last July, which killed five police officers and wounded seven other people, cast a spotlight on gun violence yet again. This and other…

Issues up close – Fighting the invisible

July 11, 2011

MRSA, Clostridium difficile, and newly emerging “superbugs” are penetrating deeper into both healthcare and community settings. We need to use critical-thinking skills and rigorous infection control practices to…

On unsafe ground

January 10, 2018

A call for real change and policies to prevent violence against nurses By Susan Trossman, RN Healthcare facilities are a microcosm of society, where like the general population,…

Risk-adjusted mortality rates: Why you should care about them

September 12, 2016

Have you ever heard of risk-adjusted mortality? Maybe you’re thinking, “No! It sounds like something only a healthcare administrator or researcher would be interested in.” Actually, every healthcare professional should know—and be concerned—about…