Set up clear communication with your hospital staff and remain open to feedback as you receive and administer the COVID-19 vaccines.
Work with supervisors and other leadership to schedule staff vaccinations and, if possible, work around shifts so that workers who do experience symptoms...
It might take weeks or months before the U.S. gets the COVID-19 vaccine out to all of those who want it. The CDC and most states are first offering the shots to healthcare workers and other essential personnel.
Whether you are a hospital or off-campus location, you must take several key...
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has updated its guidance on how employers can navigate federal anti-discrimination laws while requiring employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
On December 16, the EEOC added a section on how COVID-19 vaccines interact with the legal...
Expect to deal with many of the same exemptions—such as health concerns or religious reasons—to mandatory COVID-19 shots as you do with a mandatory flu vaccination...
Having your documentation organized for survey is always a challenge, but especially so when dealing with HR requirements and personnel files. Remember that as of January 1, 2021, The Joint Commission updated its Human Resources standard HR.01.01.01, EP 1 to include the documentation icon.
That new waiver will allow hospitals to bill Medicare for nursing for patients sent home to free up bed space. But it is not a blanket waiver, and unless your hospital already has an acute-care-at-home program in place,...
DNV GL Healthcare will conduct full, deemed reaccreditation surveys remotely, under certain conditions approved by CMS. Other accreditation organizations (AO) are declining to do so. But CMS says virtual survey processes will be allowed only during the current public health emergency (PHE). And...
In addition to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the United States and the world continues to be challenged by disasters, such as droughts, earthquakes, fires, floods, severe weather events, and terrorism.
When they occur, nurses are called on to respond during and following a disaster....
The public health emergency (PHE) related to COVID-19 would seem to have added some barriers to treatment of hearing-impaired patients. As telehealth use has exploded during the PHE, there’s now a new line of service for which you may need to address challenges for deaf or hard-of-hearing...
Keep in regular contact with your supply chain and ensure they are checking the quality and integrity of supplies from nontraditional and foreign suppliers following an alarming report on disposable isolation gowns from ECRI, the nonprofit patient safety organization based in Pennsylvania. More...
