Orientation – Success for New Employees
Learn the key components of effective healthcare employee orientation including house-wide, departmental and job-specific training to integrate & retain staff.
Author: Denise E. Smith, RN, MS, CLNC, HACP-CMS, Head of Consulting & Senior Consultant
Assessing Your Dental Services for Compliance – Part II
Learn about critical elements of dental services including water quality, amalgam waste, imaging safety, emergency care, discharge instructions, and more.
Why Thorough Instrument Inspection Matters for Patient Safety
Learn why proper inspection of instruments like scopes, clamps and scissors is vital for patient safety and infection control in healthcare facilities.
Creating Effective OPPE Performance Measurement Indicators
Learn how to develop specialty-specific OPPE performance measurement indicators to evaluate competencies like patient care and professionalism for credentialing.
Why Are Respiratory Infections More Prominent in Winter and How to Prevent Them
Learn research-backed ways like handwashing, masks and disinfection to prevent colds, flu and respiratory illnesses prominent in winter months.
Medication Refrigerators – For Medication or Staff Food?
Safe medication management in the OR/Procedure area is crucial to ensuring patient safety. Learn more about the importance of labeling.reporting and/or querying.
A Guide To Meeting Dental Service Compliance
Assess your dental practice’s compliance with regulations on key areas like admin, staff education, safety protocols, cleaning and disinfection procedures and more.
Medication or Milk?
Safe medication management in the OR/Procedure area is crucial to ensuring patient safety. Learn more about the importance of labeling.reporting and/or querying.
Why The Culture Of Safety In Healthcare Matters
Culture of Safety is how a healthcare organization supports patient safety. Learn what organizations do to promote a safety culture.
Understanding the National Practitioner Data Bank
During Medical Staff audits, it is not unusual to have National Practitioner Data Bank queries missing in the medical staff files. Learn more about reporting and/or querying.
OPPE Evaluation – Key Factors for Improvement
OPPE) is intended as a means of evaluating professional performance but often is not documented properly. Learn key factors for improvement.
Update on National Practitioner Data Bank Requirement
There has been an update to National Practitioner Data Bank Requirement – MS.06.01.05 EP 7. Learn more about the revisions.