Articles Tagged With: IDWeek
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The Age of Misinformation and Vaccine Hesitancy
Within this broader disinformation is specific distrust of the vaccines under development for COVID-19. In addition, the messaging of doing something potentially dangerous at “warp speed,” along with media descriptions of a “race to a vaccine,” have made people nervous.
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What surveyors want to see for review of med orders
Most ED nurses breathed a sign of relief after The Joint Commission approved an interim action, effective Jan. 1, 2007, that changed the requirement for pharmacy review of ED medication orders (element of performance [EP] 1 for standard 4.10 of medication management). -
Full July 2007 Issue in PDF
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Pandemic mask guidance frees up N95s for HCWs
If a pandemic strikes, masks can be used along with "social distancing" and hand hygiene to protect against community transmission, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced.