The Joint Commission has announced plans for two updates to its accreditation and certification manuals in spring 2014. The first, which will be available at the time of this publication, will impact the following Joint Commission programs:
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 25, Issue 5
Few accreditation or quality improvement specialists would disagree that funding is one of the biggest barriers to creating a better, safer environment in these areas. While other areas of healthcare improvement have clear financial benefits, such as easily quantified increases in income or...
Treatment delays and wrong patient/wrong site/wrong procedure errors were the most frequently reported sentinel events in 2013, according to The Joint Commission’s Sentinel Event Database.
A California bill has been proposed that would require stricter workplace violence prevention planning at state hospitals after two separate attacks on nurses last weekend.
Fill in the blank: Hospitals must provide information in an understandable format to patients who do not speak English, are deaf, or hearing impaired, or are ____________ or ____________ impaired.
Improvements must be made in handoffs, the use of PCA pumps, and postoperative orders to provide better patient care, according to a presentation at the annual conference of the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses.
