Nurses and other front-line workers have been instrumental in implementing the new policy and training other staffers, says the leader of the hospital's Latex Task Force.
They'll help 67 health care facilities statewide buy equipment and training to meet a July 1 deadline set by a new state law.
Thelma King Thiel, RN, chairman and CEO of the Hepatitis Foundation International, and Corinna Dan, BSN, MPH, a registered nurse and former coordinator for the City of Chicago's Hepatitis C Program will conduct the event.
According to a new study published in the January issue of the journal Clinical Infectious Deseases, one in four hospitalized Americans has a urinary catheter. One percent of them will get a urinary tract infection from that catheter. All will require antibiotics, and a few may suffer life-threatening complications.
Being black and suffering cardiac arrest after hours in a smaller hospital are among the characteristics found to be associated with delayed defibrillation.
Coming in at number three, Time magazine recently cited the approval of a bird flu vaccine earlier this year as one of its "Top 10 Medical Breakthroughs" in 2007.
Entitled "Biosafety Review Key to Infection Control," the paper outlines a crucial biosafety review process for biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and research laboratory professionals.
Audiologists want Americans to be watchful for hearing problems during holiday gatherings.
The agencies are working on a project that will produce a joint adverse events and consumer complaint portal site. Shown here is FDA's Life Sciences Laboratory.
This recommendation starts a series of statements on the use of genetic tests in clinical practice and follows FDA approval in April 2006 of a Roche test.
The researchers estimate that the annual number of needlesticks in the non-hospital RN workforce may be in excess of 145,000 per year, most of which are never reported.
Health ministries, health care provider organizations, patient safety advocates, and consumers can comment until Feb. 29.
These three occupations involve complex exposure patterns that make it difficult to attribute risk to specific factors, says the group of scientists convened by WHO's agency for cancer research.
Of that total, hospitals accounted for $654 billion, and dentists pulled in $87 billion.
Researchers say survey results are a call to action for nurses nationwide.
The bans cause no economic harm to restaurants, bars, or tourism, and the public health benefits are clear-cut, authors of a new paper assert.
Empowering members to participate in staffing decisions is a goal of the American Nurses Association.
They hope to bring 650 nurses back to work for 90 days according to the old contract while negotiations continue and some outside parties "stand down."
The agency is giving it 30 more days, even though several laboratories requested an additional nine months in order to complete testing and studies.