Some nursing leadership trends emerged quietly this year, but are nonetheless provocative for how they force us to think about nursing and how they force nurses to think about themselves as caregivers and healthcare leaders.
According to a report released by The Joint Commission, 446 sentinel events occurred during the first half of 2013. The report, released by the accreditation agency in October, provides a glimpse at some of the leading issues plaguing hospitals and some insight into what is...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 25, Issue 1
Last month, we began our review of the year's most-cited Joint Commission standards by discussing the top 10 most challenging issues of 2013. This month, we continue our analysis and look at the remaining most-cited standards for 2013 so far, led by BOJ advisor Jodi Eisenberg, MHA, CPHQ, CPMSM...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 25, Issue 1
Hospitals must have written policies on advance directives and the patient's desires with regard to life support and whether the patient wants to withhold, forgo, or withdraw life-sustaining services. Hospitals must also determine which of their outpatient settings will honor those advance...
They say that good things come to those who wait, and professionals in just about every sector of healthcare have been patiently waiting-nearly six years, in fact-for the FDA's final ruling on unique device identifiers (UDI) for medical devices, with the expectation that the new system will...
