Patient Safety

Q. Can you give an update on Universal Protocol^™? What is currently expected of us?Read More »

As cliché as it might sound, the start of a new year brings a new opportunity to pause and plan for the 12 months ahead. Even though many of us...Read More »

Improving nursing-sensitive indicators (NSI) or organizational indicators with a nursing component requires participation of direct-care bedside...Read More »

Inside:

• Better teams, better checklists, better care
• Critical to your QI efforts: Engaging busy bedside nurses
• New
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Many of those who work in hospitals know there is always potential for staff to make mistakes, and that those mistakes might cause patient harm....Read More »

Editor’s note: The following column explores patient safety from the perspective of a newcomer to the patient safety field. Columnist ...Read More »

Did you notice a significant change in the Universal Protocol™ (UP) recently? No? We’re not surprised. Most of us missed the fact that The Joint...Read More »

Inside:

• Capturing pharmacy interventions as near misses
• Prevent QI from stretching your resources too thin
• When is
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Q. What should hospitals be focusing on in 2011?Read More »

Most clinicians understand the dangers multidrug-resistant organisms (MDRO) present to patients. Most also understand that these germs are easily...Read More »