A better way to select medical equipment

Article Abstract:

Time, space, services and resources are conserved when a single committee evaluates and selects medical equipment for a hospital. Established protocols ensure each request is consistently assessed, tested, evaluated, and chosen. Team members should represent nursing and hospital units that will use the equipment. One year after instituting such a committee, more staff members were interested in participating in equipment selection and staff communication had improved.

Analysis, Evaluation, Equipment and supplies, Hospitals, Medical equipment, Committees

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Interpreting legal mandates: assistance dogs in medical facilities

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Disabled persons accompanied by service dogs have several legal concerns, particularly regarding their presence in hospitals. Service dogs help physically disabled persons with routine tasks, blind persons safely move through their day, and alert hearing-impaired persons to danger. The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 clearly specifies that disabled persons accompanied by service dogs cannot be denied access to any facility receiving federal funding.

Prevention, Buildings, Discrimination against disabled persons, Handicapped discrimination, Access for the disabled, Service dogs

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Emergency medical services need NOT resuscitate

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The state of Florida has developed a form that allows patients or their legal designate to refuse resuscitation by an emergency medical technian. In many states, the law requires EMTs to try to resuscitate patients in cardiopulmonary arrest. However, this causes much frustration for many DNR patients and their families. A copy of Florida's form is included.

Practice, CPR (First aid), Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, Emergency medical technicians

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