Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

From the AHAP Blog: NPSG field review still open for comment

January 11, 2011

The Joint Commission continues to request comments on its proposed National Patient Safety Goals for 2012 intended to address ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) and catheter-associated tract infections (CAUTI) for its hospital and long-term care organization programs

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

What’s new with AHAP!

January 11, 2011
Accreditation & Survey Preparation

AHAP’s next working group call will take place on January 25th at 3 pm EST (2 pm Central, Noon Pacific).

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

AHAP Staff Challenge: Medication Safety

January 4, 2011
Quality & Errors

True or false: Medication containers should be labeled when performing procedures outside of the operating room.

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

From the AHAP Blog: Center for transforming healthcare releases new video

January 4, 2011
Quality & Errors

The Joint Commission’s Center for Transforming Healthcare has published a new online video detailing its Surgical Site Infection (SSI) project.

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

What’s new with AHAP!

January 4, 2011
Accreditation & Survey Preparation

Keep an eye out for the downloadable version of the Survey Coordinator’s Handbook, 12th Edition, on the AHAP site this week.

Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 12, Issue 1

Patient Safety Monitor Journal 2010 index

January 1, 2011
Patient Safety

Case studies

California hospital develops electronic med rec application. March, p. 8.

Capturing pharmacy interventions as near misses. Dec., p. 1.

Colorado hospital evaluates ‘missed opportunities’ in rapid response teams. April, p. 6.

Commitment from senior...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 12, Issue 1

Can you give us a review of current Universal Protocol?

January 1, 2011
Patient Safety

Q. Can you give an update on Universal Protocol™? What is currently expected of us?

Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 22, Issue 1

Taking training on the road: Nurses take evidence-based research improvements to Africa

January 1, 2011
Quality & Errors

Sometimes the lessons learned when working to improve nursing education and empowerment are truly worth sharing—even half a world away. 

Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 12, Issue 1

Critical to your QI efforts: Engaging busy bedside nurses

January 1, 2011
Patient Safety

Improving nursing-sensitive indicators (NSI) or organizational indicators with a nursing component requires participation of direct-care bedside nurses. Quality improvement (QI) programs designed by organizational-level experts to improve patient care and driven down from the top will not...

Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 22, Issue 1

Move to electronic policies and procedures streamlines organization

January 1, 2011
Quality & Errors

Sometimes it takes a spark to bring about a large, important change in an organization. For St. Alexius Medical Center in Hoffman Estate, IL, changing to an improved electronic policy and procedure program started with a look at a communication breakdown. 

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