The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) issued ten penalties this week to California hospitals – and fines totaling $675,000 – after investigations found the facilities’ noncompliance with licensing requirements caused, or was likely to cause, serious injury or death to patients.
One energetic hospitalist, lamenting a "vast culture of overuse and waste," is working with a team to rid his hospital of some unnecessary operational habits that evidence says should be halted. Click the link above to read the full story.
Medication safety as a concept seems simple. To ensure patients safely receive the right medication and dose, implement proven methods to avoid errors. To discover those methods, look at where problems almost or actually occur. But in a hospital, a fear-based hierarchy and...
There's been a lot of buzz—and a lot of articles—about hospitals that are using the micro-blogging site Twitter to describe surgeries in real time. There's also been a lot of debate over whether or not this is a good idea. Click on the link above to read more.
Some hospitals believe they can't afford investing in assistive technologies that improve patient safety and protect nurses from injury. Can they afford not to? Click the link above to read more.
The general public have a particular image of nursing in their heads. It's a caring individual at a patient's bedside giving medications, explaining conditions, and ensuring comfort. But, as most nurses can tell you, a more accurate picture involves searching through a supply...
The general public have a particular image of nursing in their heads. It's a caring individual at a patient's bedside giving medications, explaining conditions, and ensuring comfort. But, as most nurses can tell you, a more accurate picture involves searching through a supply...
