Today's Top 20 Clinical Leadership & Infection Control Articles
Antibiotic shortage threatens to fuel syphilis infection rates
Infectious disease experts are warning that Bicillin L-A, the penicillin needed to treat syphilis, is scarce. The shortage could cause the disease to spread in the U.S. more quickly, The New York Times reported July 7.Trends in nursing from the 1st half of 2023
Staffing issues and retention emerged as the top trends for nursing in the first half of 2023.How North Carolina hospitals treated a case of flesh-eating disease
Collaboration between experts at Central Carolina Hospital in Sanford and Duke University Hospital in Durham saved the life of a woman who contracted necrotizing fasciitis — better known as flesh-eating disease — in June, WRAL News reported July 6.New subvariant sees slow growth: 4 COVID-19 updates
EU.1.1, the new SARS-CoV-2 subvariant the CDC started tracking in June, ticked up slightly over the past two weeks, federal data shows.17 moves from The Joint Commission in 2023
In the first half of the year, The Joint Commission has overhauled accreditation standards, elevated health equity to a national patient safety goal, launched a new certification program and more.Providence Mission nurse leader crushed by tree in Costa Rica fighting to walk again
The executive director of nursing at Mission Viejo, Calif.-based Providence Mission Hospital was flown to Craig Hospital in Englewood, Colo., for rehabilitation, just over a month after surviving "devastating and tenuous" injuries in an accident in Costa Rica, according to a July 6 Orange County Register news report.City may be liable for woman's hospital bill after paramedics take her to wrong hospital
A Colorado woman said paramedics put her life at risk by refusing to take her to her hospital of choice, and the city may be liable for her out-of-network hospital bills, CBS Colorado reported July 5.US physicians worried about enterovirus flare-ups
As bundles of severe echovirus infections pop up in at least three countries, U.S. infectious diseases experts are seeing a small increase in enterovirus cases, especially among children, NBC News reported July 6.Health officials urge trio of vaccines to prevent 'tripledemic'
In an effort to prevent a repeat of last winter's "tripledemic" of respiratory illnesses, public health officials are encouraging Americans to get not only a flu shot but also a COVID-19 vaccine and a new vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus, The New York Times reported July 5.COVID-19 vaccine compliance no longer required: Joint Commission
立即生效,联合委员会将no longer require hospitals to provide evidence of COVID-19 vaccine compliance, the commission announced July 5.San Diego hospital improperly documented patient who died after leaving ICU: State report
While findings by the California Department of Health stopped short of holding a San Diego metro area hospital responsible for failing to detain a patient who died shortly after leaving the facility, the department did file a "statement of deficiencies" report, according to a July 3 San Diego Tribune report.Alabama university gets $3.5M to diversify nursing faculty
Birmingham-based University of Alabama received a $3.5 million grant to help diversify nurse educators, al.com reported July 3.UNOS extends deadline for transplant group, preserving 63 hospitals' access to organs
More than 60 research hospitals — including Duke, Stanford and the University of California at San Francisco — could soon lose access to organ screening and quick transportation arrangements for transplants as provider Buckeye Transplant Services is in danger of losing access to data from the United Network for Organ Sharing, the Washington Post reported July 4.40% of PAs favor title change
Most physician assistants are in favor or neutral about changing their official title to "physician associate," according to Medscape's "Physician Assistant Career Satisfaction Report" released June 30.'Nobody knows why': Neurovascular complications arise in fungal meningitis outbreak
Physicians are noting brain blood vessel issues and recurrence among the dozens of people who contracted fungal meningitis linked to two cosmetic clinics in Mexico, NBC News reported July 3.After ICU discharge, Alzheimer's patients' risk of dying doubles: Study
Older adults with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia are twice as likely to die within a month or during the year following discharge from an intensive care unit compared to patients discharged from the ICU who do not have ADRD, according to a study published July 1 in the American Journal of Critical Care.Bubonic, meningitis, measles: 12 notable infection outbreaks, updates in June
这里有12个感染疫情,警告和updates Becker's covered in June:CLABSI-free for 300 days: How a Virginia children's hospital did it
Falls Church, Va.-based Inova L.J. Murphy Children's Hospital eliminated central line-associated bloodstream infections among its patients for 300 days during 2021 and 2022.5 highest paying states for nurse executives
Indiana is the highest-paying state for nurses in executive management roles, according to a June 29 report from the Medical Group Management Association.Perinatal care measure will be optional in 2024: Joint Commission
CMS will remove the perinatal care electronic clinical quality measure ePC-05 (exclusive breast milk feeding during the newborn's entire hospitalization) from the Inpatient Quality Reporting Program on Jan. 1, 2024.
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