Hospital Home Health articles from December 2004

Hospital Home Health archives from December 2004

Supervisors and managers are the keys to employee retention: feeling valued more important than money for employee satisfaction.
December 1, 2004... (Editor's note: This is the second of a two-part series that addresses strategies of home health agencies, which can be used to successfully recruit and retain qualified employees. In October, we discussed how a home health agency can establish...

Prepare your agency for a very unusual flu season: vaccine shortages may wreak havoc with hospital EDs, absenteeism.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... With the unprecedented shortage of influenza vaccine this flu season, hospitals are scrambling to prepare for what may be a record number of flu patients presenting to their already overcrowded emergency departments (EDs) and for staff...

Retain good employees by showing them you care.
December 1, 2004... "Managers do have to develop caring behaviors for their employees, just as nurses care for patients," says Linda S. Henry of Positive Strategies in Puyallup, WA. "There are many studies in which the reason for leaving a job isn't related to...

Flu vaccine for health care workers: liability factors: sick employees risk to themselves and patients.
December 1, 2004... The severe nationwide shortage of killed flu vaccine has put a stop, at least temporarily, to initiatives in some places that would force health care workers to be vaccinated or risk their jobs, but some health care experts warn that the...

Hands off or on when it comes to patient care? Offering comfort can be thwarted by culture.
December 1, 2004... For as long as humans have been taking care of other humans who are sick or hurt, the rendering of solace and physical comfort has been the core from which all other types of aid have grown. But a nurse and ethicist in California says that...

Inappropriate meds still prescribed to the elderly: limited study should be reminder to pharmacists.
December 1, 2004... Many elderly Americans still are being prescribed potentially inappropriate medications, according to a study published in the August issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine. The study should be a red flag to pharmacists, to remind them...

Patients' right to freedom of choice of providers: avoid fraud and implications of violations.(LegalEase: understanding laws, rules, regulations)
December 1, 2004... Regulators have indicated they are serious about patients' right to freedom of choice of providers. Specifically, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services published draft supplemental...

CMS initiates Scope of Work quality program.
December 1, 2004... Anew proposal for its quality improvement organizations (QIOs) has been unveiled by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). QIOs are local organizations that by law, contract with CMS to provide quality improvement assistance to...

CE questions.
December 1, 2004... For more information on the CE program, call customer service at (800) 688-2421. 9. At what point in the hiring process should you give a prospective employee the job description, according to Linda S. Henry with Positive Strategies in...