A growing body of research is reinforcing what many frontline nurses and hospital leaders already suspect: Nurse burnout is no longer just a workforce wellness issue.
The July 2026 issue of Medical Environment Update will be the last one as we sunset this publication to create an offer that focuses on accreditation and patient safety issues that affect your entire care delivery process.
Our goal at HCPro is to provide healthcare professionals like you with the most up-to-date information on changes that affect your organization. After reviewing our product line, we decided to make changes to Accreditation & Quality Compliance Center.
Clinicians often hesitate to admit they’re struggling, especially in the moment. Peer-led check-ins—informal huddles or structured support circles—normalize these conversations and create accountability without judgment.
Leaders may think a program is seamless and well-controlled, but in reality, the program will see small failures that compound over time until a real incident exposes the gaps that were always there.
With new accreditations and a rapid shift toward digital credentialing, the leaders in quality will be those who can combine strong data, modern infrastructure, and community‑rooted strategies to deliver measurable improvements in people’s health.
Because specimen transport involves personnel coordination, handoffs, and environmental conditions, there are many possible points of failure during the process—all of which can create significant consequences.
A new study detailed the alarming increase in hospital-based shootings over the last 25 years, with more than twice as many events reported in the last 10 years than the decade prior.
Improving safety in inpatient care depends less on adding new policies and more on strengthening execution around accountability, communication, and follow-up. Systems must be designed to make the right actions clear and unavoidable.
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 the dangers of aerosol...
