ECRI, a long-standing patient safety organization in Pennsylvania, has listed verbal and physical violence against healthcare staff as its second-most important patient safety concern for 2023.
Including the workplace violence worksite assessment in the annual evaluation process will help keep the topic in mind, but also informg organizational leadership as to what’s going on and what support might be needed to ensure the appropriate management of the workplace violence risks.
Hospitals may soon have to measure energy use, fleet vehicle gas consumption, solid waste disposal, and other measures under proposed climate change standards by The Joint Commission.
How do you remove harms and dangers from your medical environment? Safety officials have studied this question for years and found many innovative solutions to various issues. But when deciding what action to take in removing a threat, the best tool to use is the hierarchy of controls:
Though strides have been made, there are still cases of patients getting the wrong drug or the wrong dose of medication. The FDA receives over 100,000 reported cases of medication...
