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04/09/2023
The CDC’s latest Youth Risk Behavior Survey was given to more than 17,000 adolescents at high schools across the United States in the fall of 2021. Do you know which way the percentage of female adolescents...
04/09/2023
08/18/2022
A patient scheduled for a positron emission tomography (PET) scan who wanted medication to relieve her anxiety was prescribed Versed, but the nurse mistakenly injected the patient with a fatal dose of...
08/18/2022
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04/09/2023
The CDC’s latest Youth Risk Behavior Survey was given to more than 17,000 adolescents at high schools across the United States in the fall of 2021. Do you know which way the percentage of female adolescents...
04/09/2023
08/18/2022
A patient scheduled for a positron emission tomography (PET) scan who wanted medication to relieve her anxiety was prescribed Versed, but the nurse mistakenly injected the patient with a fatal dose of...
08/18/2022
05/05/2022
A private practice did not provide a patient with a complete copy of the patient’s medical records. Instead, the practice relied on a state regulation that permitted giving a summary of the medical records....
05/05/2022
10/15/2019
It is Infection Prevention Week. To build capacity to prevent health-care–associated infections, has your practice implemented state activities?
10/15/2019
08/02/2019
In your experience, how effective have mechanical cardiopulmonary resuscitation devices been? Let us know by taking our poll.
08/02/2019
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