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Protecting Your Facility: The Critical Role of Cybersecurity in Healthcare

CNECT

Last Updated: March 25, 2024 There’s no doubt about it: cyberattacks are one of the biggest threats to your facility. With the increasing reliance on electronic health records (EHRs), telemedicine, and interconnected medical devices, healthcare organizations are prime targets for cybercriminals seeking to exploit vulnerabilities for financial gain or to disrupt critical services.

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Checklist for Joint Commission Inspections of Medical Equipment

CME Corp

The Joint Commission (TJC) is the oldest medical standards regulatory agency in the United States making and maintaining accreditation by TJC highly esteemed and sought after by healthcare organizations. To maintain accreditation, healthcare facilities are inspected at least once every three years to ensure that TJC standards are continuously being met.

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Beyond Blame: How Punishing Healthcare Workers Fails to Prevent Medication Errors

LeanBlog

In healthcare, leaders saying “we'll hold them accountable” too often means, in reality, “we'll punish individuals for mistakes that have many systemic causes.” To the extreme side of this spectrum, a nurse, RaDonda Vaught, was criminally prosecuted and convicted as an individual, while the organization and its leaders she worked for were not “held accountable” to a similar extent.

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Young ICU Nurse’s Journey from Murmur Discovery to Heart Surgery

Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgeons

35-year-old Tamara Fort is an ICU nurse and what many would consider the epitome of good health. She lifts weights three to four times a week and watches her nutrition closely. She isn’t someone you would consider to be at risk for heart disease. But for the past two years, she experienced shortness of breath, and knew something wasn’t quite right.

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Happy CRNA Week 2024

Nurse Jess

Happy CRNA Week 2024 A lot has happened The last two months I moved to San Diego Oh what joyous fun A lot of changes for my family and for me New preschool, grandparent help, New workplace A lot of things to learn “Reprogramming” I’d like to say Each NORA (Non-Operating Room Anesthesia) location Different than the next A lot of new people More than double the CRNA staff Plus anesthesia residents and attendings So many new names to learn A lot of new equipment And locations of the equipment And

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Rule 35

Mark Raines

Directing an attack against a zone established to shelter the wounded, the sick and civilians from the effects of hostilities is prohibited. I am a doctor, my wife a nurse & midwife, so I have a pretty selfish conflict of interest in sharing this post. I don’t want to be killed during my working life providing care for people who have come for help.

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