When the Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) program at Ohio State’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health set out to find the best ways and timing to reach out to those who have experienced a traumatic event, it discovered that victims weren’t the only ones in need of support....
When there isn’t an immediate consequence to an unsafe behavior, in the laboratory or elsewhere, people can easily mistake “nothing bad happened” with “nothing bad will ever happen.” This leads to normalized deviance, where laboratory safety policies and standard operating procedures (SOP) are...
Workplace violence in healthcare is an escalating concern, as highlighted by recent reports and studies that expose the alarming trends affecting healthcare workers across the United States.
This is Part 2 of our interview with Patricia McGaffigan, RN, MS, CPPS, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)’s senior advisor and president of the Certification Board of Professionals in Patient Safety. PSMJ spoke with McGaffigan about the Certified...
The CDC believes that healthcare worker burnout impacts the quality and safety of patient care, including increased medical errors and hospital-acquired infections among patients. Overburdened staff—due to inadequate or high patient-to-staff ratios, a negative workplace culture, poor...
When conflicts arise in the lab, they can distract staff from their work or safety practices. Conflicts can break down crucial relationships, lower work quality, and even erupt into verbal or physical violence. To talk about how a lab can prevent conflicts from arising and steps to take when...
When conflicts arise in the lab, they can distract staff from their work or safety practices. To talk about how a lab can prevent conflicts from arising and steps to take when they do, we spoke with Dan Scungio, MT(ASCP), SLS, laboratory safety officer for multihospital system Sentara Healthcare...
My good friend and esteemed colleague, Robert Vance III, has been working in the hospital environment for a fair number of years now. In working with Bob at Keck Medicine of the University of Southern California, what has impressed me most is his thoughtful and measured approach to everything he...
The Accreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC) has launched its new Healthcare Staffing Services Certification, which aims to validate that staffing agencies supplying immediate, short-term placements meet recognized standards for quality in providing clinical professionals to healthcare...
