Keeping healthcare workers safe and healthy is a crucial part of maintaining a high quality healthcare facility

ER Doc: Protect Your Staff From Workplace Violence

February 26, 2019
Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor - Volume 13 Issue 9
Workplace safety

Amy Costigan, MD, ...Read More »

Don’t bleed before you are wounded, and if you can avoid being wounded…

February 7, 2019
Mac's Safety Space - Volume 13 Issue 2
Environment and Facilities, Workplace safety
By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant

…so much the better...Read More »

E to the E to the E to the E: Next step(s) towards a reporting culture

January 24, 2019
Mac's Safety Space - Volume 13 Issue 1
Environment and Facilities, Patient Safety, Workplace safety
By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant

Thinking that this...Read More »

In security we trust, insecurity we fear: Are you up for a challenge?

January 16, 2019
Mac's Safety Space - Volume 13 Issue 1
Environment and Facilities, Workplace safety
By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant

Last week we started...Read More »

PEARR: Treating abuse and violence victims, step by step

November 19, 2018
Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 19 Issue 12
Patient Safety, Workplace safety

Holly Austin Gibbs has been the director of Dignity Health’s Human Trafficking Response Program since 2015. She is also a survivor of child sex...Read More »

Human trafficking and healthcare

September 1, 2018
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 29 Issue 9
Patient Safety, Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Workplace safety

Do you know the likelihood of recognizing a human trafficking victim? One who came to your facility seeking medical care? Sat with you, spoke with...Read More »

Q&A: The Joint Commission on human trafficking

September 1, 2018
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 29 Issue 9
Patient Safety, Quality & Errors, Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Workplace safety

 In June, The Joint Commission Quick Safety Issue 42: Identifying Human Traf-ficking Victims was published. Elizabeth Even, MSN, RN, CEN...Read More »

Update: Identifying human trafficking patients alert

September 1, 2018
Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 19 Issue 9
Patient Safety, Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Workplace safety

If staff at your healthcare organization have not yet encountered a human trafficking victim, it is “very likely they will,” says ...Read More »

Diagnosing human trafficking when a patient is a victim

August 9, 2017
Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 18 Issue 9
Patient Safety, Workplace safety

Physicians, nurses, and healthcare staff are in a unique position to help the human trafficking victims who walk through their doors. But for that...Read More »

Three keys to preventing workplace violence

July 14, 2017
Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 18 Issue 7
Environment and Facilities, Leadership & Finance, Policies and Procedures, Workplace safety

This spring, Ann Scott Blouin, RN, PhD, FACHE, executive vice president of The Joint Commission, wrote a...Read More »

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