Sometimes surgeons will perform part of a surgery and leave partway through to work on another patient. If this practice is done at your facility, use this checklist.
A handoff is when a patient is transferred between caregivers, and the information those caregivers share. This article is on the importance of these handoffs, and includes mnemonics and a one-page printout example on how to improve transfers.
Documentation doesn’t do you good if you can’t find the files when surveyors ask for it. This article is on the importance of organizing your documents, with advice on how to do so.
This article and checklist are a starting points on apologizing patients after an adverse event, as well as doing a root cause analysis to discover what went wrong.
Medical Reconciliation is the process of creating the most accurate list possible of all medications a patient is taking. This chart shows how to keep your records updated.
