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Chairman, GDS International
Sales and the 'Talent Magnet'
A lot is written about being a ‘Talent Magnet’, either as a company, or as President. It’s all good practice – listen, mentor, reward, provide clear goals and career maps. Good practice for the employer, but what about the employee?24 May 2011
Focus Area: Patient Care
Personal hand hygiene dispensers can help solve one of healthcare’s biggest challenges
Challenges help create the condition for the dramatic evolution of business and clinical best practices. An advancing economic crisis, CMS phasing out payment for healthcare acquired infections, mandatory reporting, MRSA, and the nursing shortages are formidable challenges, which together create conditions for the holy grail of patient safety to be found at last. The time has come for hand hygiene to evolve into an advanced clinical skill, emerge as the nucleus of a new patient safety culture, and provide fiscal relief in trying economic times.
5 steps to anesthesia services improvement
Improvements in contracted outside services are oftentimes more difficult to accomplish than those made internally. Complicating issues for improving anesthesia services include the complex nature of anesthesiology, strong personalities around surgical and anesthesia services, daunting expenses, and the integrated nature of the service.
Hill-Rom: Progressive mobility with continuous lateral rotation therapy
Preventing Ventilator Associated pneumonia and other pulmonary complications due to immobility of critically ill patients is a key focus in critical care medicine to enhance early recovery and prevent short and long term complications
SmartCare/PS knowledge based weaning system: “Relentless”
What are the challenges associated with weaning long-term patients from mechanical ventilation?
Physics, physiology and serendipity of temporal artery thermometry
With temporal artery thermometers now used in more than half of US hospitals nearly a billion times per year, and millions of consumers using them for care of their families, it is sensible to more closely examine what makes temporal artery thermometers work, and why they have become popular.
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