The EMrecruits Weekly | March 17, 2015
Top Emergency Medicine News and Updates
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Competency Measurement Approach for Advanced Practice Providers
from ACEP Now
Lately, the topic of competency of advanced practice providers (APPs), also known as physician assistants (PAs) and nurse practitioners (NPs), has come up frequently within hospitals and large health care organizations. These groups have been hiring more new APP graduates and want to know how long it will take for them to get up to speed within the institution...
Bill Would Factor Demographics into Readmission Penalties
from Fierce Healthcare
Bipartisan legislation introduced in the House and Senate would incorporate sociodemographic data when calculating hospital readmission rates, which the American Hospital Association (AHA) said would improve the Medicare Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program...
Non-Opioid Pain Medications to Consider for Emergency Department Patients
from ACEP Now
As recently as 15 years ago, the approach to pain management was a symptomatic one, whereby the symptom of pain was hidden or minimized with a general analgesic such as an opioid or acetaminophen. Additional pain relief was sought by treating the underlying disease under the assumption that the pain would resolve if you did so...