Is that Equipment Clean and Ready for the Next Patient?
The pace of hospital life tends to stay continuously busy, with patient equipment such as wheelchairs and stretchers ...
Read More Deck the Halls in Fire Safety
As we move into the latter part of the year, we look forward to the Holiday season. Many ...
Read More Documenting Compliance with the Use of Interpreter Services
Communicating effectively with patients is an essential patient rights requirement and a key element in helping patients to ...
Read More Why Are Respiratory Infections More Prominent in Winter and How to Prevent Them
Colds, flu, and other respiratory illnesses are more common in colder months. People are indoors more often, allowing ...
Read More Make Sure Your Staff Can Access Safety Data Sheets
With the use of caustic and other dangerous chemicals in healthcare facilities, it's imperative your staff can readily ...
Read More Medication Refrigerators – For Medication or Staff Food?
Have you ever opened your medication refrigerators and looked at what is actually in them? Recently I was ...
Read More Primary Source Verification Pitfalls and Successes
Many organizations continue to struggle with the primary source verification requirements. Primary Source Verification(PSV) is required for any ...
Read More Evaluating Patient Quality and Safety in Healthcare
Evaluating the levels of patient quality and safety can take many different forms in healthcare organizations. Medical record ...
Read More Medical Equipment Calibration
Medical equipment and devices that provide measurement data can be critical in patient care. This includes the measurement ...
Read More Medication or Milk?
While surveying across the country, we frequently see the same issues over and over again. Despite educating the ...
Read More National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB)
During Medical Staff audits, it is not unusual to have National Practitioner Data Bank queries missing in the ...
Read More Staff Identification Badges: Is Your Organization Secure?
How effectively and consistently is your organization using staff badges? Staff badges are used for a variety of ...
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