Food Safety

Angie SzumlinskiNews

We’ve all been there; surveyors enter your center and go directly to the dietary department. On any given day this area in your center is fraught with risk. Think about it, staff pull the eggs out of the refrigerator to prepare breakfast and don’t put them back promptly, one and done citation. How about food storage? I challenge you to …

Ewe!

Angie SzumlinskiNews

Whether you work in post-acute care, urgent care, an ER, a physician office, or home health, we all use stethoscopes, right? Well, a recent study published in PubMed made me shudder a little bit! We do it and we witness it every day, nurse takes a blood pressure and hangs the stethoscope around her/his neck. The doctor checks lung sounds …

Heard It All?

Angie SzumlinskiNews

Just when I thought I had heard it all, I come across an article titled, “Toilet Seat Dermatitis Making a Comeback.” Really? I never knew it existed in the first place! According to the article, toilet seat dermatitis is one of those legendary conditions described in medical textbooks and seen in underdeveloped countries and is more common in young children. …