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In the 20 plus years that I have been surveying hospitals, I’ve reviewed countless critiques of emergency preparedness exercises – and a few actual disasters to boot. Almost without exception, one of the identified “opportunities for improvement” involved ...

Imagine you work at a hospital just outside of Disney World in Orlando, FL. Chances are a significant number of your patients will be from out of town. If they’re hospitalized, it is unlikely that their personal physicians will be aware of this. It’s even possible…

I remember when I started my nursing career that hospitals rarely paid more than token lip service to emergency preparedness planning. A true disaster of any significant magnitude was a rare event. Unfortunately, that is no longer the case. Natural disasters…

I have a friend who is a neonatologist. She practices in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of a local hospital. During a survey, her credential file was pulled for review. Because of the way the medical staff was organized, she was placed under the Department...

There was a case several years ago where a nurse aide had her certification revoked due to elder abuse of a patient. She worked as a home health aide at the time. Unable to find work, she took the old paper copy of her certification and forged it to make it look like it...