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Are Daily Anesthesia Machine Checks Needed?
To provide safe and reliable anesthesia to all patients undergoing surgery it is important to make sure that ...
Read More Emergency Preparedness Part III – Can Disasters Be Managed Through a Lens of High Reliability?
By James Ballard, MBA, CPHQ, CPPS, HACP and Christopher Pratt, MS, BSN, RN A Futuristic Perspective for Incident ...
Read More More Strategies to Prevent Spread
As healthcare organizations continue to respond to the effects of the Covid 19 crisis, new sustainable approaches are ...
Read More Competence and Competency Assessment
We have always known that having competent staff was and remains the backbone to who we are as ...
Read More New Definition for Fall Events Under TJC’s Sentinel Event Policy
The Joint Commission will be defining fall events in their Sentinel Event Policy starting January 1, 2021 to ...
Read More Why Antibiotic Stewardship is Important in the Ambulatory Care Setting
Understanding the Issue “Inappropriate antibiotic use and antibiotic resistance are major public health threats. In the United States, ...
Read More History & Physical Requirement Changes – Ambulatory Surgery Centers
CMS’s recently announced adoption of the final rule that will make changes to several regulatory requirements that affect ...
Read More Celebrating Nursing Week
It is timely that in the midst of a worldwide pandemic that has gripped our nation, we celebrate ...
Read More What Is High Level Disinfection (HLD)?
More than 45 years ago, Earle H. Spaulding developed an approach to disinfect and sterilize patient-care items and ...
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