Paul Calderwood is a Certified Fire and Explosion Investigator, a Certified Fire Protection Specialist, a Certified Fire Plans Examiner, and a certified Fire Inspector and Instructor. He holds a master’s degree in emergency management and is an international speaker on that...
I am often asked how somebody responsible for laboratory safety, yet with other duties to fulfill, can do the job well. Today’s labs have tight staffing, tight budgeting, and a score of regulatory duties that must be accomplished—not all of which revolve around safety.
It’s time to review and revamp your pneumonia prevention policies. A collaboration of healthcare organizations has updated their pneumonia prevention and care guidelines for the first time in eight years. The guidelines include several new best practices and recommend against several current...
For all their advantages, EHRs aren’t so good at detecting changes in patient status that separate those being observed and those who end up admitted. Nursing staff are often left to comb and click through records in an endless game of catch-up.
More than 92% of patients say privacy is a right and their health data should not be available for purchase, the survey finds.
Savvy Cooperative surveyed 1,000 patients at the start of 2022 for the AMA, and found that they are worried about data privacy protections and confused about who...
In 2021, Leapfrog convened a National Advisory Group of medical experts to evaluate diagnostic practices in hospitals and to develop the first-of-its-kind report to improve diagnostic safety—Recognizing Excellence in Diagnosis: Recommended Practices for Hospitals.
With monkeypox cases climbing in each state, sometimes dramatically, hospitals should be creating and implementing a plan that includes education of both staff and patients, say experts.
