Tornado and Hazardous Weather Preparedness
Prepare your healthcare facility for severe weather. Ensure staff know their roles and conduct response drills. Be ready before severe weather strikes.
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Infection Prevention & Control
Keep Those Instructions for Use Current!
Learn the importance of maintaining up-to-date Instructions for Use (IFU) for medical equipment, ensuring patient safety & compliance with industry regulations.
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The Importance of Routine Environmental Risk Evaluation
Environmental risks pose vulnerabilities, especially with suicidal or violent patients. Update risk assessments when changes occur to ensure a safe environment.
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Improving Pain Medication Practices
Safe and effective pain management requires healthcare organizations to thoroughly address gaps in pain medication practices, ensuring clear orders, and more.
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Your Patient is on Seizure Precautions – What Does That Mean?
Inconsistencies in interpreting seizure precautions can lead to gaps in patient care and potential harm. Learn how to ensure consistency through protocols.
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Solution Testing Strip Concerns
Learn the challenges organizations face with solution testing strips and the best practices to address expiration dates, documentation, and strip selection.
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Update Your Important Medication Lists
Prioritize medication safety by updating important drug lists based on ISMP’s latest update for high-alert medications, look-alike/sound-alike drugs, and more.
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Borescope Cameras: Uses and Maintenance
It is important that staff are educated, trained, and competent on the use of the borescope. Improper processing can compromise the health, care, and safety of the patient.
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Are Your Linens an Elusive Culprit for Surgical Site Infections?
Linens in healthcare facilities can often be the culprit for surgical site infections which can go undetected. The AORN Journal recently published a feature article regarding linens in the OR as potential contaminants that are often overlooked.
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Prepare Your Healthcare Laundry Department For Inspection
How often do we go to the linen closet and say to ourselves, “is this linen safe to put on my patient’s bed?” As a nurse for over 40 years, I do not think that I have ever asked myself that question. I was happy that the linen was there and that I could use
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Covid-19 Resources for Environmental Services
Recently the American Hospital Association, Health Research and Educational Trust and the Center for Disease Control updated their COVID-19 training and education resource for those persons responsible for maintaining the cleanliness of our organizations. While the tool addresses COVID-19, the training is founded in the basic principles of disinfection and contains great infographics that could
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