Much has been made of alarm fatigue and its impact on patient safety in the past year. Following that discussion further, The Joint Commission has announced that it is gathering information on clinical alarm management and seeks input from the field.
This year’s AHAP conference, to be held May 10-11 at the Hilton at Walt Disney World® Resort in Lake Buena Vista (Orlando), FL is sure to be a valuable and educational networking resource for you, and we’re happy to announce that we have two more reasons why:
Q: Our assessment for compliance with the LSC has been made, and some deficiencies have been identified. The problem is that some of these deficiencies will take longer than 45 days to resolve. What should be my plan of action?
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 23, Issue 4
By now, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) is well known to the healthcare community. Hospital staff and physicians have long been practicing a strict standard of patient privacy.
Recently in this space, we talked about CMS’ changing stance on the so-called ”30-minute rule.” To follow up, we thought it was time to take a look at the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) and its recently developed Acute Care Guidelines for Timely Administration of...
Years ago, when I wanted information on certain patient safety subjects, I might have gone to multiple sources—the Internet (of course), a colleague within my network, and maybe even a book.
