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 the importance of...
In this Q&A, Meier explores how hospitals are evolving their emergency plans to respond to increasing climate-related disasters, cybersecurity threats, and staffing shortages.
Burnout. Communication breakdowns. Security blind spots. These are daily realities in hospitals, and they can be the difference between a safe patient encounter and a sentinel event.
We know what works best in our house; as long as we can "frame" that work as a function of compliance, then that should be enough to pass muster during survey—don't you think?
When talking about culture in healthcare, two terms that come up often are “safety culture” and “just culture.” A laboratory safety professional will likely be familiar with the former, but what is the latter?
The manifestation of experiences and deeper connections can become so powerful over time, but sometimes the “rush” of everyday life precludes our being able to truly embrace those experiences and make those deeper connections.
The American Hospital Association (AHA), working with the University of Washington’s Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, released a report in June that found that U.S. hospitals spent an estimated $18.27 billion in 2023 on costs directly tied to workplace and community violence.
I think one of the best unexpected experiences I’ve had are those instances in which the Zen of a routine yields what I can only describe as a glimpse of a larger existence.
