Keep required documents up to date and ready for surveyors, and have someone within the hospital leadership team available to come in on short notice once your hospital is within six months of its triennial survey date.
Check with the hospital pharmacists and program managers overseeing implementation of the latest updates to the U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP) standards on what cleaning solutions they need and maintenance concerns they have before the updated USP requirements for non-sterile and sterile drug...
Staffing is a complex decision based on the experience and clinical expertise of the nurse, care team, resources, and patient needs,” AONL said in a prepared statement. “Organizational leaders, nurse managers, and direct care nurses, not policymakers, should collaboratively align staffing with...
For the good of providers and patients, behavioral healthcare facilities need to prioritize good customer service, says Kevin Ann Huckshorn, PhD, MSN, RN, ICADC, a licensed and certified mental health nurse and substance abuse clinician with more than three decades of experience...
Now that all is (presumably) moving towards whatever normalcy is going to be within our grasp, I wanted to loop back on what could be a critical process as we start to build into the future: The preconstruction risk assessment (PCRA) process.