Quality & Errors

An article on how to take another facility’s innovation or quality improvement project and making it work in your facility.

A checklist to see if staff are using the checklists you give them

When visiting a hospital, surveyors use this worksheet to confirm an organization’s compliance with the QAPI CoPs. Use it to test your facility before surveyors arrive.

A non-comprehensive list of safety precautions to take before, during, and after surgery by the WHO.

Sometimes surgeons will perform part of a surgery and leave partway through to work on another patient. If this practice is done at your facility, use this checklist.

A checklist of risk factors that could cause a patient fall from the CDC

Run through this list to assess harm after a patient has fallen.

A handoff is when a patient is transferred between caregivers, and the information those caregivers share. This article is on the importance of these handoffs, and includes mnemonics and a one-page printout example on how to improve transfers.

If it’s not documented, it’s not done. This article is on the importance of documentation in passing a survey.

Documentation doesn’t do you good if you can’t find the files when surveyors ask for it. This article is on the importance of organizing your documents, with advice on how to do so.