I was brought up with the understanding that volunteering your time to a cause is the best way to learn, grow, and influence your world for the better. The earliest volunteer endeavor I remember is Green Up Day, a...Read More »
You may be considering what you want 2019 to look like—personally and professionally. Since “tis the season,” you may also be formulating some New Year resolutions.Read More »
Well, the year is speeding along and none of us here at ACDIS can believe it’s already the third week of 2019. While the beginning of the year spells software updates, departmental meetings, and annual reviews, there are also a number of ACDIS local chapter and national events coming up to help...Read More »
By Tracy Boldt, RN, BSN, CCDS, CDIP, and Ellen Jantzer, RN, MSN, CCDS, CCS, CRC
If your organization has an inpatient CDI team, decide if outpatient CDI will share the same reporting structure or if the teams should be separate. A shared reporting structure can allow the new...Read More »
The conversation bounced around the importance of building a community of caring. The speakers talked about the development of family and the communities that extended families create. They also spoke of changing societal norms which make geographic, topic-...Read More »
There are a number of etiologies leading to pediatric respiratory failure, just as there are with adult patients. To begin with, pediatric patients can come to an acquired extrathoracic airway from an infectious source (e.g., retropharyngeal abscesses, Ludwig’s angina, bacterial tracheitis,...Read More »
The ACDIS team is back in the office and getting back into the swing of things after the holiday break, preparing for everything that 2019 holds. While there’s certainly more in the works this year, there are a number of events coming up this very month to help you kick off your new year...Read More »
