Posts by Dan Nguyen

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Dan's Dose of the Day - Energizing your Hospital

By | on 09, Jul 2020

Energy consumption by hospitals Hospitals consumed about 4.5% of Canada’s 842 PetaJoules (PJ) of energy in 2009, despite using approximately 2% of the total commercial real estate floor space. To high[...]

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Dan's Dose of the Day - Putting the ‘Real’ in Real-Time Health Systems

By | on 12, Jun 2020

Know The Now The emergence of the real-time health system (RTHS) has made it possible to synchronize hospital operations and uncover insights that allow them to truly stand above the rest. For example[...]

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Dan's Dose of the Day - Faster isn’t Enough

By | on 14, Apr 2020

Key Points COVID-19 has turned the entire planet’s focus to healthcare Collaboration on all levels will help us overcome this pandemic but will continue to perpetuate the focus of primary care Even wi[...]

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Dan's Dose of the Day - Less is More

By | on 07, Apr 2020

Amidst these difficult times, we have all been encouraged to do one activity more than anything else to keep ourselves safe and that is to “wash your hands”. In the past few weeks, I have seen on ever[...]

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Dan’s Dose of the Day - Light the Path to Safety, Security, and Savings

By | on 04, Feb 2020

How many of you believe in the adage that turning off the lights when you leave a room is good practice? This was certainly true when incandescent bulbs that generated more heat than light were common[...]

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Dan’s Dose of the Day – Schneider Electric Innovation Summit

By | on 16, Oct 2019

Florence Nightingale is often viewed as the ‘Mother of Modern Nursing’. Back in the 1850’s she treated wounded soldiers from the Cremean War with an unorthodox approach that was ahead of its time. She[...]

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Dan’s Dose of the Day – Misalignment

By | on 19, Sep 2019

One of the biggest surprises I received when I was in nursing school was that there was no training on how to insert and start an IV catheter, only how to care for one. When I started working as an RN[...]

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How to Connect Clinicians with Better Patient Data at your LTC home

By | on 16, Jul 2019

Stop for a moment and put yourself in the shoes of a clinician working at a traditional long-term care (LTC) facility... If you work in a LTC facility, you’ll know that these homes are where many elde[...]

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Dan's Dose of the Day - Lost in Translation

By | on 30, May 2019

A few years back in early spring, a patient with my last name was admitted to my unit; Nguyen is one of the most common last names in the world. During handoff, the previous nurse informed me that thi[...]

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Dan's Dose of the Day - Nosocomial Infections and Other Preventable Adverse Events

By | on 07, May 2019

I remember this elderly patient of mine who was transferred to our mental health unit because she was presenting very aggressive behaviour. It was progressive dementia that was being accompanied with [...]

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Dan's Dose of the Day - Post Becker’s Annual Meeting: Managing Hype

By | on 11, Apr 2019

Last week thought leaders from all over North America gathered in Chicago for Becker's Annual Hospital Review. The conference had a heavy focus on the emerging trends in management and operations howe[...]

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Dan's Dose of the Day: Collaboration is the key to unlocking the future of Healthcare

By | on 28, Mar 2019

When you think of collaboration, especially in the context of a hospital, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? I think of clinicians working together, creating treatment and care plans to help p[...]

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