Articles Tagged With: disaster
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Include Staff Mental Health in Disaster Plan
Mental health needs increase following a disaster. This is true of healthcare professionals as well as disaster victims. Disasters can increase burnout and stress in healthcare providers.
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Ways Case Managers Can Improve Disaster Planning
Effective disaster planning requires improved annual preparedness training, better focus on patient transition, more emphasis on rehabilitation after discharge, strengthened teams, and transitions of care contingencies.
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Study Shows Research Programs and IRBs Responded Quickly to the Pandemic
Human research protection programs and IRBs nationwide responded quickly and efficiently to changing processes and policies during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the results of a recent study.
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Know What You Don’t Know
Emergency response and employee health ultimately boils down to a paradoxical paradigm: “Know what you don’t know,” says Cathy Floyd, MS, BSN, RN, DPA, COHN-S, regional manager of occupational health at Memorial Hermann Health System in Houston.
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CMS Finalizing Disaster Reg; Includes Training, Assisting HCWs
As dealing with natural disasters and emerging infections becomes the new normal for hospitals, CMS will soon issue “all-hazards” emergency regulations that include requirements for protecting and accommodating healthcare workers, Hospital Employee Health has learned.
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Top Challenges for Access after CO Mass Shooting
Here are some of the challenges patient access faced on the night of the 2012 mass shooting inside an Aurora, CO, movie theater:
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Prepare Your Patient Access Areas For Challenges that Come after a Disaster
Patient access will face these challenges in the aftermath of mass shootings or other mass casualty incidents:
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Access Copes with Mass Shooting — Fine-tune Processes for Disasters
The patient access team at Orlando Regional Medical Center was informed a mass shooting had occurred only 10 minutes before patients started arriving.
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Natural Disasters: Hospital Management
MONOGRAPH: Here is how to prepare your emergency department to successfully handle mass casualties.
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Man-made Disaster: In-hospital Management
Man-made disaster directly impacts the emergency department and hospital when a mass casualty situation ensues, and is the focus of this review article. Using contemporary examples and the current literature, what follows is a primer on the causes, injury patterns, resource utilization, triage, and preparation for man-made mass casualty events.