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Alone, Isolated, At Risk
By Shawn Kennedy, AJN editor-in-chief By Alan Cleaver/via Flickr I saw the following headline this week: “LA woman dies in her cubicle at work; body is not discovered until the following day.” The...
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Health Technology Hazards: Top 10 for 2012
Photo by Jasleen Kaur, via Flickr Advances in health technology can save patients’ lives, but can also cause harm, as the recent Ecri Institute report, Top 10 Technology Hazards for 2012, reminds us....
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Health Technology Hazards: ECRI’s Top 10 for 2014
hazard/jasleen kaur, via Flickr It’s that time of year again—the ECRI Institute has released its Top 10 Health Technology Hazards for 2014 report, and with it come new (and old) hazards to keep in...
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Health Technology Hazards, 2015: Alarm Issues Still Lead ECRI Top 10
hazard/jasleen kaur, via Flickr It’s a new year, and the ECRI Institute has released its Top 10 Health Technology Hazards for 2015 report, highlighting new health technology hazards (and some older,...
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Addressing Alarm Fatigue in Nursing
by flattop341/via flickr By Amanda Anderson, a critical care nurse and graduate student in New York City currently doing a graduate placement at AJN. “Will you please silence that alarm?!” The nurse is...
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Health Technology Hazards, 2016: Inadequate Disinfection of Flexible...
hazard/jasleen kaur, via Flickr The ECRI Institute has released its Top 10 Health Technology Hazards for 2016 report, highlighting health technology hazards for health care facilities and nurses to...
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