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  2. Patient safety - Wikipedia

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    Variations in healthcare provider training & experience, [47] [48] fatigue, [49] [50] [51] depression and burnout. [52] Diverse patients, unfamiliar settings, time pressures. Failure to acknowledge the prevalence and seriousness of medical errors. [53] [54] Increasing working hours of healthcare personnel; mislabeling specimen or forgetting to ...

  3. Effective safety training - Wikipedia

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    Effective safety training is an unofficial phrase used to describe the training materials designed to teach occupational safety and health standards developed by the United States government labor organization, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). OSHA has produced many standards and regulations that affect employers and ...

  4. Occupational Safety and Health Administration - Wikipedia

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    The Occupational Safety and Health Administration ( OSHA; / ˈoʊʃə /) is a regulatory agency of the United States Department of Labor that originally had federal visitorial powers to inspect and examine workplaces. [2] : 12, 16 The United States Congress established the agency under the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSH Act), which ...

  5. Atascadero State Hospital - Wikipedia

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    Atascadero State Hospital (ASH) opened in 1954, as a state-run, self-contained public sector forensic psychiatric facility. It is enclosed within a security perimeter, and accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO). Patients are referred to the hospital by the Superior Court, Board of Prison Terms ...

  6. Nursing - Wikipedia

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    Nursing is a health care profession that "integrates the art and science of caring and focuses on the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and human functioning; prevention of illness and injury; facilitation of healing; and alleviation of suffering through compassionate presence". [1] Nurses practice in many specialties with ...

  7. What to know about Medicare and hospital at home programs - AOL

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    Medical care provided by hospital at home can include IV antibiotics and infusions, EKGs, blood pressure monitoring, x-rays, and respiratory or oxygen therapy. Typically, to qualify for hospital ...

  8. Social programs in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Welfare in America. The United States spends approximately $2.3 trillion on federal and state social programs including cash assistance, health insurance, food assistance, housing subsidies, energy and utilities subsidies, and education and childcare assistance. Similar benefits are sometimes provided by the private sector either through policy ...

  9. Heartbleed - Wikipedia

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    Heartbleed is a security bug in some outdated versions of the OpenSSL cryptography library, which is a widely used implementation of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol. It was introduced into the software in 2012 and publicly disclosed in April 2014. Heartbleed could be exploited regardless of whether the vulnerable OpenSSL instance is ...