The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week released new guidelines for emergency department workers to evaluate and manage patients who show with symptoms of Ebola....

Fill in the blank: Orders in which the dose is decreased by a particular amount with each dosing interval is called a ___________....

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released updated guidance for healthcare workers who care for patients with Ebola....

The Joint Commission is allowing the public to download its new Patient Safety Systems chapter, which is effective January 1, 2015....

Some hospital employees are challenging facility mandated flu vaccinations, highlighted by a lawsuit filed by the Massachusetts Nurses Association against Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston....

In the wake of a Dallas nurse testing positive for Ebola, the director of the CDC says new procedures may be needed to prevent infection....

At least ___% of your fire drills should be unannounced....

Hospitals are feeling the heat to reduce readmissions, with 2,610 receiving fines from Medicare for having too many patients return within 30 days for more treatment....

A new study found that the rate of C. difficile infections in hospitals nearly doubled from 2001 to 2010, but dropped off slightly from 2008 to 2010....

In 2004, at the American College of Surgeons (ACS) conference in Boston, Joseph B. Cofer, MD, FACS, professor of surgery and the surgery residency program director at the University of Tennessee Col...