It’s the 21stcentury, and the importance of communication cannot be understated. Crafting an effective message is key for so many patient safety and accreditation compliance challenges, whether it’s getting staff to follow hand-washing policies, convincing communities to get screened...
Last week we went over advice on how to craft a healthcare or policy message—one meant to alert people to the dangers of a certain disease and offer actions to improve compliance. Public health communications can and have caused confusion, mistrust, and harm when not crafted or implemented...
A health equity initiative launched by the American Medical Association, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, and The Joint Commission is designed to capitalize on peer learning at health systems and hospitals, the president of the AMA says.
Health equity has emerged as a pressing issue in U.S...
Events such as the May 14 grocery story shooting in Buffalo, New York, and the May 24 school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, can be triggering for anyone in healthcare—particularly for anyone who has been on the job for any mass casualty event.
Patient Safety Monitor Journal spoke with Kurt Patton, MS, RPh, pharmacist, founder of Patton Healthcare Consulting, and former director of accreditation services for The Joint Commission about the impact that the conviction of RaDonda Vaught will have on healthcare....
RaDonda Vaught, the former Vanderbilt University Medical Center nurse who accidentally gave a patient a fatal dose of the wrong medicine, was sentenced to three years of supervised probation with no jail time. In March, Vaught was convicted of criminally negligent homicide and gross neglect of...
A survey of physicians found that a significant proportion of the clinicians had experienced mistreatment in the prior year, with patients and visitors the most common source of abuse, a new research article says.
Mistreatment of healthcare staff including workplace violence has become a...
Too often, Black and Brown women in the United States are afraid of what will happen to them and their child before, during, and after birth, said a panel of women during a recent online roundtable hosted by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Ask any healthcare executive to name the biggest issue that will demand their attention in 2022, and the response will be staffing shortages and their impact on patient safety. Those focused on improving care quality might consider how key trends will play out and the impact of current industry...