Q. We are in the process of moving to an electronic system. How have other hospitals managed co-signatures on high-risk medications when nurses are scanning meds and patient IDs at the bedside? We would like to make it as easy as possible for the nurses.
We would like to thank everyone who participated in the most recent working group call on going restraint free. The discussion was lively and a lot of great questions were brought up.
President Barack Obama has appointed Donald Berwick, MD, president and co-founder of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) administrator. Berwick, who was nominated for the position back in March, was supposed to have gone through a...
True or false: Emergencies cause a sudden, unexpected effect on an organization’s ability to meet the need for services. Emergencies can be natural or man-made.
We would like to thank everyone who participated in last week’s successful working group call on going restraint free. The discussion was lively and a lot of great questions were brought up.
The Joint Commission is looking to refine and improve its tracer methodology, according to an official statement on its website. The Joint Commission hopes to integrate patient care tracers and patient system tracers to thoroughly evaluate selected high risk or problem-prone processes....
True or false: Serious medication errors have occurred when physicians, nurses, or other healthcare professionals assumed they knew what was inside an unlabeled medication container.
