The blog post is the last in our series honoring the AAPACN 2020 Award Winners. We look forward to celebrating with these winners and the 2021 winners next year at the AAPACN 2021 Conference in St. Louis. 2020 Innovation Award WinnersTammy Kelly, PT, LNHA, RAC-CT, RAC-CTA, and Carrie Tidd, RN, …
One of the highlights of the AAPACN annual conference each year is the recognition of the year’s award winners. With the 2020 conference now planned as a virtual conference in June, AAPACN will feature the 2020 winners in this blog series every week in April. Please join AAPACN in congratulating …
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Driven by the ongoing opioid crisis, drug diversion among healthcare workers remains a significant, often underrecognized problem, creating significant risk for long-term care facilities in addition to the individual risks for addicted staff or even residents’ family members and the harm to residents from inadequately managed pain. F-tags that could come …
One of the highlights of the AAPACN annual conference each year is the recognition of the year’s award winners. With the 2020 conference now planned as a virtual conference in June, AAPACN will feature the 2020 winners in this blog series every week in April. Please join AAPACN in congratulating …
The Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Burn Rate Calculator excel icon[3 sheets] is a spreadsheet-based model that will help healthcare facilities plan and optimize the use of PPE for response to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Non-healthcare facilities such as correctional facilities may also find this tool useful. To use the calculator, enter the …
