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The Importance of Routine Environmental Risk Evaluation

Environmental risks can pose significant vulnerabilities to your patients, visitors and staff members.  Specifically, in patient care locations ...
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Improving Pain Medication Practices

Pain medication, when properly ordered, administered and monitored for effectiveness, can provide patients with relief of their suffering ...
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Your Patient is on Seizure Precautions – What Does That Mean?

Often patients are placed on defined precautions when a risk has been identified.  This includes fall, Pressure Injury, ...
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Solution Testing Strip Concerns

Our consulting team has noticed this year that we are finding increasing issues with testing strips.  These strips ...
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Update Your Important Medication Lists

Recently the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (IMSP) released their annual update to the High Alert Medication Lists ...
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Borescope Cameras: Uses and Maintenance

Borescopes are visual inspection tools used on instruments that have a lumen that is hard to access because ...
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Insulator Testers – Don’t Get Zapped

Instrument insulator testers are commonly used on laparoscopic instrumentation and other surgical instruments (bi-polar instruments) that have an ...
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Aligning Patient Pain Needs with Effective Medication Intervention

Following medical orders for pain medication is essential to support effective pain control.  If pain medications are not ...
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Transplant Safety Management

Ensuring that transplantable tissues are safely managed is critical for patient safety.  This includes maintaining acceptable storage conditions, ...
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Fall Prevention Strategies During Inclement Weather

Slush, sleet, black ice, and snow-every winter, these weather phenomena contribute to slips, trips, and falls. For the ...
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Deck the Halls in Fire Safety

As we move into the latter part of the year, we look forward to the Holiday season.  Many ...
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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 ...
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