Start Small to Create a Safety Culture

December 10, 2019
Accreditation Insider - Volume 13 Issue 52
Leadership, Patient Safety, Quality Improvement

We started small. Just a few tests of change led us to establish a...Read More »

Expect the next decade to focus on coping with new technology and old problems

December 10, 2019
Inside Accreditation & Quality - Volume 2 Issue 1
Accreditation, CMS, Data Tracking, Emergency Management, Environment and Facilities, Healthcare Violence, HFAP, Infection Control, Joint Commission, Leadership, Life Safety, Medical Error Prevention, Medication Management, National Patient Safety Goals, Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Quality Improvement, Sentinel Event Alerts, Suicide Prevention, Survey Coordinator Training, Survey Preparation

Healthcare compliance changed quite a bit in the last decade. For one thing, fire safety moved into the current millennium with the adoption of...Read More »

Providing excellent care through training and culture

December 3, 2019
Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 21 Issue 1
Leadership, Patient Safety, Quality Improvement

The most successful hospitals not only focus on patient safety and positive outcomes, they also create a collective winning mindset within the...Read More »

Use data transparency with IC outcomes to engage staff

November 19, 2019
Inside Accreditation & Quality - Volume 1 Issue 12
Data Tracking, Leadership, Quality Improvement

Engage staff in fighting hospital-acquired conditions by sharing data on infection prevention and other surveillance programs tracking patient...Read More »

Q&A: Zero harm study

October 14, 2019
Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 20 Issue 11
Joint Commission, Leadership, Medical Error Prevention, Quality Improvement

Anne Marie Benedicto, MPP, MPH, vice president of The Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare, speaks about the...Read More »

Patient Safety Monitor Journal, October 2019

October 1, 2019
Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 20 Issue 10
Emergency Management, Environment and Facilities, Infection Control, Leadership, Medical Error Prevention, Patient Safety

Subscribers, download this month's full PSMJ newsletter...Read More »

Taking steps to stop a nursing shortage before it starts

September 24, 2019
Inside Accreditation & Quality - Volume 1 Issue 10
Leadership, Medical Error Prevention, Quality Improvement

At Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, nurse leaders have taken a preventive approach to the organization’s...Read More »

3 ways to improve: Use nurse leaders to change workplace culture

July 30, 2019
Inside Accreditation & Quality - Volume 1 Issue 8
Leadership, Policies and Procedures, Quality Improvement

To achieve organizational goals, nurse work environments must support an optimal staff member experience.Read More »

Inside Accreditation and Quality, July 2019

July 1, 2019
Inside Accreditation & Quality - Volume 1 Issue 7
Accreditation, Leadership, Patient Safety, Suicide Prevention, Survey Coordinator Training

Subscribers, download this month's full IAQ newsletter Read More »

California Nurse-to-Patient Ratio Chart

June 25, 2019
Tools
Leadership, National Patient Safety Goals, Patient Safety

California is the only state that has set minimum nurse-to-patient ratios. The law took effect back in 2004 and was put into California’s Title 22. The minimum number of nurses varies depending on the type of...

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