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Care Staffing Professionals Awarded Health Care Staffing Services Certification from the Joint Commission

Ontario, CA, October 19, 2018 –(PR.com)– Care Staffing Professionals today announced it has earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval® for Health Care Staffing Services Certification. The certification demonstrates Care Staffing Professionals commitment to providing qualified and competent health care professionals.

Care Staffing Professionals underwent a rigorous onsite review on October 16, 2018. Joint Commission experts evaluated compliance with national standards that assess how health care staffing firms determine the qualifications and competency of staff, placement of staff, and how they monitor performance. All certified health care staffing organizations are required to collect data on their own performance.

Health care staffing firms place temporary staff in organizations that direct or provide patient care. Established in October 2004, Health Care Staffing Services Certification, awarded for a two-year period, offers an independent and comprehensive evaluation of a staffing firm’s abilities to provide competent staffing services.

“Care Staffing Professionals has demonstrated its commitment to providing quality health care staffing services to health care organizations as evidenced by its achievement of Joint Commission certification,” said Patrick Phelan, Executive Director, Hospital Business Development, The Joint Commission. “We recognize and commend Care Staffing Professionals for its efforts to provide a safe, high-quality standard of service.”

“Care Staffing Professionals is pleased to receive certification from The Joint Commission, the premier quality improvement and accrediting body in the nation,” added D’Andre Lampkin, Chief Executive Officer, Care Staffing Professionals. “Health Care Staffing Certification demonstrates our commitment and accountability to clients and the health care professionals we employ. Certification establishes, defines and measures delivery on key functional areas and performance measures across the entire industry. This accomplishment certainly would not have been possible without the leadership and guidance of our Leadership Team. Everything is possible when you have a team who unanimously believes quality healthcare matters. Many thanks to our clients and employees for their loyalty and belief in Care Staffing Professionals’ mission.”

The Joint Commission
Founded in 1951, The Joint Commission seeks to continuously improve health care for the public, in collaboration with other stakeholders, by evaluating health care organizations and inspiring them to excel in providing safe and effective care of the highest quality and value. The Joint Commission accredits and certifies more than 21,000 health care organizations and programs in the United States. An independent, nonprofit organization, The Joint Commission is the nation’s oldest and largest standards-setting and accrediting body in health care. Learn more about The Joint Commission at www.jointcommission.org.

Care Staffing Professionals
Founded in Spring 2016, Care Staffing Professionals focuses on providing high quality healthcare professionals to hospitals and medical offices in need of professional Registered – All specialties, Licensed Vocational Nurses, Certified Nursing Assistants, and clerical staff. A centered interest in providing quality care and service where the well-being of patients is put before corporate profit. Care Staffing Professionals is a privately owned organization whose mission is to To play a pivotal role in ensuring the well-being of patients and their safety. Learn more about Care Staffing Professionals at www.carestaffingprofessionals.com.

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D’Andre Lampkin
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penn nursing confronting opioid crisis
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Confronting the Opioid Crisis

Nursing colleges add curricula to deal with a growing public health problem.
By Grace Bird

Nurses are on the front lines of the opioid epidemic. As the first faces many patients see, nurses have the opportunity to identify individuals who are addicted, and they can also save lives by administering naloxone, an “opioid antagonist” that reverses the effects of an overdose.

But many nursing colleges are only relatively recently adding programs about preventing and treating opioid addiction.

Deborah Finnell, associate professor in the department of acute and chronic care at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Nursing, said that since she arrived at Hopkins about five years ago, she’s made a concerted effort to push for more instruction on substance use, which she said is lacking in nursing programs across the country.

Finnell co-authored a report published by Nurse Educator last year that said nursing programs lacked curricula on substance use disorders, and offered ways to remedy this problem. The emergence of the opioid crisis has emphasized the need to better inform nursing students about addiction, the report says.

“Nursing curricula have not kept pace with the growing public health crises related to alcohol and other drug use and the expanding evidence base for treatments,” the report states, adding that curricula on addiction haven’t changed much in four decades.

Nurses have an important role in combating the opioid epidemic because they can intervene before an addiction spirals, the report says.

New Courses Trickle In

Over the past year or so, a number of nursing schools have introduced programs to teach students to prevent and treat an opioid addiction or overdose.

At the University of Pennsylvania Nursing School, starting this fall, the nursing program will offer an undergraduate elective, Opioids: From Receptors to Epidemic, which includes a lecture on overdoses, according to Peggy Compton, an associate professor, who will co-teach the class with Heath Schmidt. The course covers acute and chronic pain, the composition of opioids, the pathophysiology of opioid addiction, treatment options, the historical foundations of the crisis, and current policies regulating opioid distribution. While the class is geared toward nursing students, it’s open to all majors “because the implications go beyond health care,” Compton said via email.

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Nurse-Staffing Levels and the Quality of Care in Hospitals

Jack Needleman, Ph.D., Peter Buerhaus, Ph.D., R.N., Soeren Mattke, M.D., M.P.H., Maureen Stewart, B.A., and Katya Zelevinsky
N Engl J Med 2002; 346:1715-1722May 30, 2002DOI: 10.1056/NEJMsa012247

Hospitals, wrote Lewis Thomas in The Youngest Science, are “held together, glued together, enabled to function . . . by the nurses.”1 More than 1.3 million registered nurses work in hospitals in the United States. As hospitals have responded to financial pressure from Medicare, managed care, and other private payers, registered nurses have become increasingly dissatisfied with the working conditions in hospitals. They report that they are spending less time taking care of increasingly ill patients and believe that the safety and quality of inpatient care are deteriorating.2-7 Although the number of hours of care per patient-day provided by registered nurses rose through the mid-1990s,8-12 some question whether the staffing of nurses has increased rapidly enough to keep pace with the increasing severity of illness among hospitalized patients and thus to ensure safe and high-quality care.13

Research on the relation between the level of staffing by nurses in hospitals and patients’ outcomes has been inconclusive. Whereas some studies have reported an association between higher levels of staffing by nurses and lower mortality,14-20 as well as lower rates of other adverse outcomes,21-30 others have found no such relations.30-39 Previous studies have assessed only a limited number of outcomes that are sensitive to the extent or quality of nursing care, such as falls by patients and errors in medication. Many studies have used small samples of hospitals, controlled only to a limited extent for the patient’s initial risk for the outcomes under study, failed to include nurses’ aides as part of the nursing staff, and used inconsistent measures of staffing levels. We examined the relation between the levels of staffing by nurses in hospitals and the rates of adverse outcomes among patients, using administrative data from a large multi-state sample of hospitals.

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Hospital Nurse Staffing and Patient Mortality, Nurse Burnout, and Job Dissatisfaction

Context The worsening hospital nurse shortage and recent California legislation mandating minimum hospital patient-to-nurse ratios demand an understanding of how nurse staffing levels affect patient outcomes and nurse retention in hospital practice.

Objective To determine the association between the patient-to-nurse ratio and patient mortality, failure-to-rescue (deaths following complications) among surgical patients, and factors related to nurse retention.

Design, Setting, and Participants Cross-sectional analyses of linked data from 10 184 staff nurses surveyed, 232 342 general, orthopedic, and vascular surgery patients discharged from the hospital between April 1, 1998, and November 30, 1999, and administrative data from 168 nonfederal adult general hospitals in Pennsylvania.

Main Outcome Measures Risk-adjusted patient mortality and failure-to-rescue within 30 days of admission, and nurse-reported job dissatisfaction and job-related burnout.

Results After adjusting for patient and hospital characteristics (size, teaching status, and technology), each additional patient per nurse was associated with a 7% (odds ratio [OR], 1.07; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.03-1.12) increase in the likelihood of dying within 30 days of admission and a 7% (OR, 1.07; 95% CI, 1.02-1.11) increase in the odds of failure-to-rescue. After adjusting for nurse and hospital characteristics, each additional patient per nurse was associated with a 23% (OR, 1.23; 95% CI, 1.13-1.34) increase in the odds of burnout and a 15% (OR, 1.15; 95% CI, 1.07-1.25) increase in the odds of job dissatisfaction.

Conclusions In hospitals with high patient-to-nurse ratios, surgical patients experience higher risk-adjusted 30-day mortality and failure-to-rescue rates, and nurses are more likely to experience burnout and job dissatisfaction.

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