The Joint Commission has announced the launch of the Targeted Solutions Tool™ (TST), an interactive tool designed to streamline the process for solving healthcare’s most persistent quality and safety issues.
True or false: It is not necessary to use two patient identifiers when you are administering medications to a patient you have been taking care of and you know the patient’s medications.
If a procedure has been shifted from the physician to the nurse, can informed consent then be obtained by the nurse, or does that responsibility remain with the ordering physician? One facility, by using nurses for the insertion of peripherally inserted central catheters (PICC lines), challenged...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 21, Issue 9
The Joint Commission took a giant step forward in 2009 when it began to include the D icon next to the elements of performance (EP) that require documentation. This ended the long debate over whether a particular EP was required to have documentation support. However, the new icon fails to...
