Getting the best results from the workforce in any organization requires meticulous strategy planning and implantation. To fully harness individual strengths to achieve overall success as a team, it is vital to pay close attention to the individual and general methods used in managing the workforce. These management approaches often cover many things, from shift schedules […]
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Point-of-Care Testing (POCT) relates to an alternative to core laboratory testing. It is an option for conducting laboratory testing closer to the patients – such as an emergency room, IC unit, operating room, physician’s office, or an ambulatory care clinic. The popularity of POCT continues to increase, and the options for methods and devices continue
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Pandemic conditions have placed emphasis on the quality of resiliency in nursing. In reality, this quality has always been valuable. Let’s examine what resiliency is, how nurses develop it, and how it can be assessed. What is resiliency? Every healthcare provider faces stressful situations on a daily basis. The cumulative effect of difficult situations leads to
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It is critical for medical staff, especially in robust imaging departments, to stay inspection ready. This is an ongoing task, and the best compliance strategies should be designed around competency assessment efforts. For radiology centers, where imaging processes require manual calibration of sophisticated equipment with potentially hazardous exposures, managing competency is a top priority. To
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Container ships are languishing on the West Coast while multi-faceted supply chain problems affect almost every US market. How are health systems being affected, and how are they tackling the issues? Hospitals are no stranger to supply chain problems. Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico in 2018 causing severe damages to manufacturing plants that make plastic bags for
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This is the first article in a two-part series on Supply Chain issues in healthcare. To see all StaffReady blog posts, click here. In response to a global health crisis, clinical laboratories are feeling the crunch in more ways than one. An ever-increasing demand for COVID-19 testing along with products to support the management of COVID-19
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Preventing drug diversion, especially regarding controlled substances, is an important role for pharmacy management. This is especially true considering that up to 15% of healthcare professionals will misuse substances during their careers, a statistic that matches the general population. However, pharmacy is often in the reactive position of responding to diversion that has already taken
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In Part 1 of this series, we discussed the importance of quality in the pre-analytical phase of Point of Care (POC) testing. In Part 2, we will cover the quality aspects impacting the analytical and post-analytical phases. Analytical Quality Traditional POCT operators are non-laboratory trained personnel lacking a firm grasp of laboratory principles and the
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It is reported that 70% of clinical decisions are based on test results more often generated in a permanent laboratory. As technology has become more mobile, the laboratory has been miniaturized into portable testing devices. The wide –array of POCT devices include glucometers, urine readers, blood gas analzyers, and pregnancy tests. These devices (and many others) makeup
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The SARS-CoV-19 pandemic has upended the healthcare field for more than a year and a half. Besides an impact on infection control practices and staffing considerations, the pandemic has also significantly disturbed the supply chains for multiple medications and products. This has led to a direct impact on sterile compounding, at a time when the
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