In the wake of Tropical Storm Hilary in California and Hurricane Idalia in the Gulf Coast, make sure that your patients and staff know how to stay safe after a major storm or flooding. The CDC has put out a list of post-...
The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) predicts “significant” patient care “disruptions” will result from the EPA’s proposed regulations to slash ethylene oxide (EtO) emissions by 80%, according to ...
On August 24, the CDC launched the Hospital Sepsis Program Core Elements, with seven core elements aimed at strengthening survival and recovery rates for all sepsis patients. Hospitalized patients with sepsis have a high mortality rate...
Given the scale and scope of ECRI’s reach, having a patient safety issue end up on its top 10 list ensures that the issue will be seen by a lot of people—...
“One thing behavioral healthcare can do is get rid of unnecessary rules—rules that have been developed for staff convenience or organizational reasons like cost, rather than for patient comfort and care,” says Kevin Ann Huckshorn, PhD, MSN, RN, ICADC, a licensed mental health...
While the term might invoke images of restaurants, hotels, and store clerks rather than healthcare, customer service is about working with stressed, unhappy, or potentially violent customers/patients to solve their problems and de-escalate situations.
