Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 12, Issue 2

IHI National Forum focuses on partnering with patients

February 1, 2011
Patient Safety

Healthcare providers face a number of difficult challenges in the year ahead, only one of which is to improve patient care while reducing costs. The way to success, according to Maureen Bisognano, president and CEO of the IHI, is to think differently about patient care...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 12, Issue 2

Patient Safety Monitor Journal, February 2011

February 1, 2011
Patient Safety

Healthcare providers face a number of difficult challenges in the year ahead, only one of which is to improve patient care while reducing costs. The way to success, according to Maureen Bisognano, president and CEO of the IHI, is to think differently about patient care...

Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 22, Issue 2

Standard readiness: Targeting patient-provider communication

February 1, 2011
Patient Safety

Are you questioning your readiness for the recently approved Joint Commission patient-provider communication standards? Although these standards don’t have a firm implementation date when they will actually be scored, they are available and surveyors will be assessing for compliance in 2011...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 12, Issue 1

Patient Safety Monitor Journal 2010 index

January 1, 2011
Patient Safety

Case studies

California hospital develops electronic med rec application. March, p. 8.

Capturing pharmacy interventions as near misses. Dec., p. 1.

Colorado hospital evaluates ‘missed opportunities’ in rapid response teams. April, p. 6.

Commitment from senior...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 12, Issue 1

Patient Safety Monitor Journal January 2011

January 1, 2011
Patient Safety

Inside:

  • Better teams, better checklists, better care
  • Critical to your QI efforts: Engaging busy bedside nurses
  • New year, new patient safety resolutions
  • Can you give us a review of current Universal Protocol?
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Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 12, Issue 1

Can you give us a review of current Universal Protocol?

January 1, 2011
Patient Safety

Q. Can you give an update on Universal Protocol™? What is currently expected of us?

Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 12, Issue 1

New year, new patient safety resolutions

January 1, 2011
Patient Safety

As cliché as it might sound, the start of a new year brings a new opportunity to pause and plan for the 12 months ahead. Even though many of us run operations on a separate fiscal year, where budget planning takes precedence for new strategies and projects, I’m a firm believer that the beginning...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 12, Issue 1

Critical to your QI efforts: Engaging busy bedside nurses

January 1, 2011
Patient Safety

Improving nursing-sensitive indicators (NSI) or organizational indicators with a nursing component requires participation of direct-care bedside nurses. Quality improvement (QI) programs designed by organizational-level experts to improve patient care and driven down from the top will not...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 11, Issue 12

When is your hospital at risk for patient harm?

December 1, 2010
Patient Safety

Many of those who work in hospitals know there is always potential for staff to make mistakes, and that those mistakes might cause patient harm. Hospitals are constantly working toward better patient care, putting systems in place to ensure that clinicians double- and triple-check their work,...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 11, Issue 12

Communicating well with your diverse team

December 1, 2010
Patient Safety

Editor’s note: The following column explores patient safety from the perspective of a newcomer to the patient safety field. Columnist Catherine Hinz, MHA, currently works at PatientSafe Solutions, Inc. Previously, she served as the patient lead at HealthEast Care System...

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