by Functional Pathways | Monday, February 15, 2021 | Risk Management
On February 10th, the CDC released information about double masking. It appears that they completed an experiment in January looking at effectiveness of double masking AND decreasing the gap in a surgical mask by knotting the elastic earpiece. See pics...
by Functional Pathways | Monday, February 1, 2021 | Risk Management
Caregiver burnout is defined as a state of physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion which can occur when providing care to someone who needs ongoing, extensive care and support. Caregiver burnout occurs when the person responsible for providing care does not get the...
by Functional Pathways | Thursday, November 12, 2020 | IT, Risk Management
I cannot stress this enough because it only takes one person and one device to have catastrophic consequences. Any device that does not have the latest updates is vulnerable to cyber security threats. Hackers and criminals are banking on devices not having...
by Functional Pathways | Tuesday, November 10, 2020 | Risk Management
Since early September, mandate to test all Nursing Home staff based on county positivity rates have had an uptick in positive diagnoses of asymptomatic people. Typically, when testing is done, there is roughly a 48-hour delay until results are known. This means...
by Functional Pathways | Friday, October 30, 2020 | IT, Risk Management
This is NOT a Drillby Joei Morton | Friday, October 30, 2020 | IT, Risk Management Here is a quick Summary of what is going on. A cybersecurity advisory went out yesterday for the healthcare and public health sector this weekend....
by Functional Pathways | Monday, October 12, 2020 | Risk Management
Much of the US workforce has moved to working at home. We thought this might be for a brief period, but it has stretched on into Fall, and in many cases, what looks like 2021 Winter. Nontraditional office and clinic jobs have found spaces in homes, even some of our...