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Family Spirit Nurture Intervention Study Shows Benefits for the Little Ones
In an obesity prevention program targeted to Native American mothers and infants, participants reduced consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages and improved responsive feeding habits, both of which can contribute to healthier infant weights.
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Help Case Managers Overcome Vaccine Hesitancy
Many Americans and healthcare workers have doubts and skepticism about the first vaccines for COVID-19, despite the need for a rapid end to the pandemic surge that began to overflow hospitals before the December holidays. In hospitals that have mandated a COVID-19 vaccine for all staff, it is a good idea to communicate to employees why they should be vaccinated.
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New Year Starts with Challenges of COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout
As the COVID-19 vaccines are rolled out to U.S. healthcare organizations, there will be challenges in access, logistics, and maintaining infection prevention practices. The first step is determining which employees are eligible for the first phase of the vaccine rollout.
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Accreditation Program Elevates Pain and Addiction Care in the ED
Long before the COVID-19 pandemic, frontline providers were confronting an epidemic of patients struggling with opioid use disorders (OUD). Recognizing the urgent need for improvement in this area, the American College of Emergency Physicians is rolling out a new accreditation program that is aimed at nudging EDs across the country to up their game when it comes to both the treatment of pain and the way they manage patients who present with OUD.
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Try Using Telehealth to Diagnose and Manage Patients with Dizziness
Appreciating the need for more guidance in this area, an international task force comprised of physician-scientists from 10 countries developed consensus-based guidelines to help frontline providers diagnose and triage patients with dizziness over a telehealth or virtual platform.
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Researchers Study the Effects of Intensive Primary Care
A case management-type of model, called primary care intensive management, could provide some limited benefits for more complex patients, research shows. But the research also suggests questions about how population health resources are best spent.
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Follow-Up Is Crucial but Difficult for Case Managers During Pandemic
The pandemic exacerbated social determinants of health problems for many patients seen by case managers. Case managers had to find new resources for patients, including aid from the CARES Act.
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As Pandemic Rages, Case Managers Can Focus on Crisis Management
Crisis management is important to case management leaders and their teams as the COVID-19 pandemic continues. COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations sharply increased through the end of 2020.
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IHI Issues Action Plan on Patient Safety
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s National Steering Committee for Patient Safety recently released its national action plan, aimed at helping healthcare organizations reduce preventable medical harm.
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Investigators Raise Alarm About Prevalence, Impact of Secondary Traumatic Stress in Emergency Nursing
The fast-paced, unpredictable environment of emergency nursing can lead to trouble. Safety is an ongoing concern, considering the increasing incidence of workplace violence and the continuous flow of patients with infectious diseases. But there is another kind of stress emergency nurses may be reluctant to discuss: that which results from exposure to others’ trauma.