The PSMJ Staff Trainer

Patient Safety Monitor Journal
October 1, 2012
Patient Safety

Test your staff's knowledge of The Joint Commission's rights, ethics, and communication standards. Answers are on p. 12.Read More »

Patient Safety Monitor Journal, October 2012

Patient Safety Monitor Journal
October 1, 2012
Patient Safety

There are certain requirements and regulatory factors that pose perpetual challenges for hospitals, familiar burdens that elicit...Read More »

Fresh perspective: Finding the value of patient safety in accountable care organizations

Patient Safety Monitor Journal
October 1, 2012
Patient Safety

Medicare recently amplified its effort to improve healthcare quality and reduce costs by naming 89 new accountable care organizations (ACO). The...Read More »

Patient Safety Monitor Journal, September 2012

Patient Safety Monitor Journal
September 1, 2012
Patient Safety

In 2009, The Joint Commission added Leadership standard LD.03.01.01, "Leaders create and maintain a culture of safety and quality...Read More »

Students, residents share patient safety lessons

Patient Safety Monitor Journal
August 1, 2012
Patient Safety

It was a simple mistake she's still ashamed she made, but luckily when Elizabeth Butler, BA, a fourth-year medical student at the...Read More »

Changing behavior through better connections

Patient Safety Monitor Journal
August 1, 2012
Patient Safety

Editor's note: Columnist Catherine Hinz, MHA, works as a leader in patient safety at HealthEast Care System in St. Paul, Minn....Read More »

Hospital decreases patient falls through education, culture change

Patient Safety Monitor Journal
August 1, 2012
Patient Safety

Despite already being below the national average on patient falls, Lallie Kemp Regional Medical Center's staff and leadership still felt falls...Read More »

Patient Safety Monitor Journal, August 2012

Patient Safety Monitor Journal
August 1, 2012
Patient Safety

It was a simple mistake she's still ashamed she made, but luckily when Elizabeth Butler, BA, a fourth-year medical student at the...Read More »

Q&A: Clarifying PC.01.02.01 EP23 (Incomplete preprocedure H&P)

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor
July 10, 2012
Patient Safety

Q: During our recent survey, the surveyor cited three instances where the preprocedure H&P was missing elements based on the medical...Read More »

Joint Commission releases tool to help with caregiver miscommunication

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor
July 3, 2012
Patient Safety

The Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare released a new Hand-off Communications Targeted Solutions Tool™ (TST) to help health...Read More »

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