Environmental disinfection is a key component of a safe and effective laboratory. Disinfection protects researchers and public health, prevents contamination and cross-contamination of experiments, and keeps laboratories in compliance with safety and regulatory requirements.
At Henry Ford Health, quality improvement is celebrated. Each fall, hundreds of teams gather for an event that has been engrained into the system’s culture: the Quality Expo.
Well, we have come to the end of this particular road. I just want each of you to know how very much I have enjoyed your company these past however many years.
This is Part 2 of our interview with Jason P. Nagy, PhD, MLS(ASCP), QLS, and Dan Scungio, MT(ASCP), SLS, on including just culture elements in your lab safety culture. Nagy is a laboratory safety support coordinator and Scungio is a laboratory safety officer for the...
Security and clinical leaders agree—it’s not enough to react to violent incidents in healthcare after the fact. Effective prevention requires executive commitment, interdepartmental coordination, and tailored strategies that evolve with the threat landscape.
Fast-forward to the present day and it seems like grace is in shorter supply than any time that I can recall (I don’t go further back than 1960, so there are limits to my insight), so this seemed to be exactly the right note to play before I finish up blathering in this space.
The United States continues to experience some of the highest maternal morbidity, maternal mortality, and infant mortality rates among high-income countries. As a result, improving outcomes for both mother and baby (or babies) is a key objective for patient safety in obstetrics.
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 how to handle laboratory...
