Assessing Your Laser Practice for Safe Use
Understanding safe use for laser practices is key to avoid health risks to patients and staff. Learn Tips for assessing your process.
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Procedural Safety – Are Your Teams Focused On Preventing Harm?
Procedural safety is an integral part of an organization’s overall patient harm prevention efforts. Learn key elements of a Procedure Safety Review:
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Advance Directive Admissions Process – Missing Documentation
Advance Directive during the admission process is to ensure the healthcare team is aware of the patient’s wishes. Learn important documentation to include.
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A Guide to Navigating a Surveyor’s Evaluation Process
Be Survey Ready. Understand how the CMS COPs should be met and learn the process that surveyors use to evaluate them
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Combatting Healthcare Disparity with Data-Driven Approaches
Establishing effective and efficient data management processes to measure, analyze, initiate, and evaluate is key to mitigating and sustaining health equity initiatives. Learn more.
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Navigating Virtual Nursing Regulatory Compliance Challenges
As virtual nursing continues to expand organizations must address patient safety concerns and regulatory requirements. Learn consideration for implementing a successful model.
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Medication Titration Orders – Clarifying the Requirements
MM 06.01.01 Element of Performance #3 includes several expectations for the pre-administration review of medications. Learn more.
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Validating Chemical Concentrations
Decades ago there was a chemical company slogan, “Better Living Through Chemistry”. It’s true that chemicals do support safe patient care such as cleaners, disinfectants, testing reagents, etc. However, if chemicals are not of the right concentration or strength, they tend to not be effective in supporting the concept of better living or patient safety
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Aligning Patient Pain Needs with Effective Medication Intervention
It’s essential that nurses follow orders for pain medication administration and consult providers if the medication used does not address a patient’s pain needs.
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Transplant Safety Management
Get an overview of critical transplant safety management including tissue storage, documentation, certification and steps to identify potential gaps. Read more!
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TJC Revises Definition of Suicide for Sentinel Event Policy
The Joint Commission revises definition of suicide for sentinel event policy effective 1/1/24. Learn more details.
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Deck the Halls in Fire Safety
Avoid fire hazards when decorating healthcare facilities for the holidays. Follow NFPA guidelines on proper placement, flame retardancy and volume of decor.
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