The Joint Commission has announced the creation of a National Patient Safety Goal (NPSG.06.01.01) addressing growing concerns surrounding alarm safety. Click the link above to read on.
The general public have a particular image of nursing in their heads. It's a caring individual at a patient's bedside giving medications, explaining conditions, and ensuring comfort. But, as most nurses can tell you, a more accurate picture involves searching through a supply...
Like Franklin Woods Community Hospital (see p. 7), Sycamore Shoals Hospital (SSH) in Elizabethton, Tenn., a Mountain States Health Alliance hospital, is a participant in the QUEST collaborative. And like its sister hospital, SSH has achieved impressive results. Specifically, it...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 24, Issue 7
According to national statistics, anywhere from 25% to 40% of patients in acute care settings have either a primary or secondary behavioral health diagnosis. Whether that diagnosis is a substance abuse issue or another acute or chronic psychiatric condition, steps can-and should-be taken to...
The general public have a particular image of nursing in their heads. It's a caring individual at a patient's bedside giving medications, explaining conditions, and ensuring comfort. But, as most nurses can tell you, a more accurate picture involves searching through a supply...
Many hospitals find complying with regulatory and accreditation standards to be a challenge-knowing how to address deficiencies and ensure that the entire organization is prepared to do so is not something one learns in school. As a result, even an excellent hospital can find its well-being in...
Hospital readmissions are a complex problem. Now that reimbursement is affected, the issue is getting more attention, but attention on its own doesn't solve the problems that create readmissions. Rushed patient discharge, disconnects between the patient and the healthcare...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 24, Issue 7
Spend a few moments in any hospital and it is likely you'll encounter them-the endless beeps, sirens, alarms, and call tones that staff face every shift. We as a healthcare community have come to recognize that alarm fatigue is a real danger-everyone knows a story, either in passing or from...
