American Medical Compliance

AUGUST 7, 2024

Furthermore, regular training and reminders can reinforce the importance of hand hygiene. Improper Use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Common infection control mistakes include wearing the wrong type of PPE for the task, reusing disposable PPE, and not removing PPE correctly. Access the course here.

PPE 100

PPE Best Practices Patient Safety Urgent Care 100

American Medical Compliance

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Employees may go to their primary care physicians or an Urgent Care or Hospital for consultation. Elements of the hierarchy of controls include elimination, substitution, engineering controls, administrative controls, and PPE. Examples of PPE include gowns, respirators, and gloves.

EMS 52

EMS PPE Administration Urgent Care 52

Sensible Medicine

JULY 28, 2023

As our hospital filled up, I was left doing video visits with my patients (visits that I found unrewarding), educational sessions about COVID for doctors from other specialties, and urgent care shifts to see the patients who needed to be seen in person. ” He was masked, I wore full PPE (mask, goggles, gown, gloves, and bonnet).

Hospitals 82

Hospitals PPE Urgent Care Academics 82

Don't Forget the Bubbles

AUGUST 29, 2023

In the emergency department, we were working our way through tonnes of PPE, masks, aprons, and gloves. Amidst tonnes of PPE, hot zones, cold zones, cancelled clinics and social distancing, mental health presentations to the ED were exploding – lockdown was devastatingly affecting our young people. We were in lockdown.

PPE 98

PPE Research Emergency Department Urgent Care 98