Security and clinical leaders agree—it’s not enough to react to violent incidents in healthcare after the fact. Effective prevention requires executive commitment, interdepartmental coordination, and tailored strategies that evolve with the threat landscape.
Fast-forward to the present day and it seems like grace is in shorter supply than any time that I can recall (I don’t go further back than 1960, so there are limits to my insight), so this seemed to be exactly the right note to play before I finish up blathering in this space.
The United States continues to experience some of the highest maternal morbidity, maternal mortality, and infant mortality rates among high-income countries. As a result, improving outcomes for both mother and baby (or babies) is a key objective for patient safety in obstetrics.
In this guest column, Dan Scungio, MT(ASCP), SLS, laboratory safety officer for multihospital system Sentara Healthcare in Virginia, and otherwise known as “Dan, the Lab Safety Man,” discusses the important issues that affect your job every day. Today he talks about how to handle laboratory...
As far back as I can recall, I have been an enthusiastic reader. My favorite (or at least most memorable) experiences in grade school revolved around the times the Scholastic Book Service came to school.
Violence in healthcare isn’t always patient-driven—and it’s not always confined to the four walls of a facility. In fact, some of the most dangerous events begin before a patient ever reaches the ER.
Specimen labeling may seem like a routine task, but a single mislabeled tube can delay diagnosis, trigger incorrect treatment, or compromise trust in the entire laboratory process.
While I think I knew intrinsically that tamper-resistant and tamper-proof were not terms to be used interchangeably, I had never really given it a great deal of thought.
