A strong culture of patient safety has been and continues to be a critical component in reducing healthcare medical errors. To address this, some facilities are implementing "red rules"-a short set of easy-to-remember, unbreakable flagged practices, with disciplinary consequences if not followed...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 24, Issue 9
Every so often, the topic of steam sterilization comes up when discussing infection control issues. I recently came across a fantastic article in the Journal of the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) discussing this very topic. The author, Paula Nania, MSN, RN, CNOR,...
The Joint Commission has approved new National Patient Safety Goal (NPSG) 06.01.01 on clinical alarm safety for hospitals and critical access hospitals.
California's latest round of penalties for hospital blunders that resulted in patient harm or death includes a wrong-site surgery, feeding errors, a retained surgical object, and a number of unnecessary "emergency" coronary interventions. Click the link above to read more.
Not to belabor or otherwise abuse the deceased equine, I wanted to share with you a potential solution for those of you who might be struggling with high humidity levels in your surgical procedure areas. Click the link above to read more.
How would you prove that you communicate important quality and patient safety information to the members of the medical staff as well as to appropriate hospital staff?
A California physicians organization is finding that more doctors are dismissing patients because they are uncooperative, refuse to comply with treatment, exhibit drug-seeking behaviors, and increasingly threaten the safety of care providers. Click the link above to read on.
It’s been a fairly busy year when it comes to updates of standards and such and this week we’ll take a look at the new requirements relative to leadership and oversight of the Emergency Management (EM) function. Click the link above to read more.
