True or false: Pre-procedure verification is an ongoing process where information is gathered prior to a procedure occuring. That information is used to confirm that you have the right patient, the right procedure, and right site.
Patient Safety Awareness Week is coming up and the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) is extending its toolkits, aimed at cultural competency and reducing readmission rates, to all healthcare organizations. In years past, the NPSF–which is the founding sponsor of Patient Safety...
Beep. Beep. Beep. The telltale noise of a hospital is the bleeps, the sweeps, and the creeps of the many machines hospital patients are hooked up to during their stay. These machines have alarms—as many as 400 per patient—and many are important. They alert staff if a patient needs immediate...
As patient safety, infection control, and quality improvement professionals continue toward their “path to zero”—as in zero hospital-acquired infections, zero medication errors, and zero wrong-site surgeries—at some point or another, they usually stumble upon resistance. The...
As patient safety, infection control, and quality improvement professionals continue toward their “path to zero”—as in zero hospital-acquired infections, zero medication errors, and zero wrong-site surgeries—at some point or another, they usually stumble upon resistance. The...
In a January report, the British Medical Journal (BMJ) found that patients who fall out of bed often do not receive adequate care, including delay in diagnosis, failure to record neurological observations, and delay in-urgent surgery.
When I was first accepted into my graduate program for healthcare administration, I remember scanning the coursework that I was about to undertake for the next two years. While investigating all the classes, I mentally...
