Bill Of Health

APRIL 22, 2022

In terms of health care practice and patient safety, these underpinning basic, foundational concepts include the need for proper patient communication strategies. The consequences of failures in patient communication can be devastating. By John Tingle and Amanda Cattini. A litigation link? A global service industry.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 3, 2024

But the team won’t know unless they ask the question and delve into each piece of the patient puzzle. Using Such Questions – Along With HRO Principles – to Enhance Patient Safety To implement these beautiful questions, organizations can learn from other segments — high reliability organizations (HROs), to be exact.

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Patient Safety Movement

MARCH 27, 2023

Patient safety has been top-of-mind for me for decades. When I learned of the startling statistics surrounding patient deaths in hospital settings, I knew a change in patient care was imperative. Recently, I had the opportunity to deliver a keynote at the 5th Global Ministerial Summit on Patient Safety in Switzerland.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Australian aged care provider Apollo Care has tapped Rauland Australia to deliver nurse call solutions at its Queensland sites. Rauland's Responder nurse call solutions will be adopted in three Apollo sites in Maryborough and Rockhampton, according to a media release. WHY IT MATTERS.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

What You Should Know: – Hippocratic AI , a company developing a safety-focused Large Language Model (LLM) for healthcare, announced the launch of its Nurse Advisory Council. Hippocratic AI aims to address this by developing an LLM that supports nurses and allows them to focus on high-impact patient care.

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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 14, 2022

Patient Safety Awareness Week is an annual recognition event intended to encourage everyone to learn more about health care safety. Patient Safety Awareness Week serves as a dedicated time and platform for growing awareness about patient safety and recognizing the work already being done.

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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 10, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare Everyone plays a role in patient safety and quality health care. CDC and its partners provide expertise, data, and programs for safe health care to support public health, healthcare workers, patients and caregivers. How Can I Be a Safe Patient?

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Health Populi

MARCH 14, 2023

In 2014, ECRI pivoted the title of this annual report to “patient safety concerns,” a nuance away from health technology. Fast forward to 2023 and ECRI’s latest take on the Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns 2023. Topping the 2023 list of patient safety concerns is the pediatric mental health crisis.

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Hospital Medicine

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

When RaDonda Vaught, a registered nurse at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, was criminally prosecuted for a medication error, it sent shockwaves through the medical community.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 8, 2024

What You Should Know: – Press Ganey , a provider of healthcare experience measurement and data analysis, announced a collaboration with Epic to integrate nurse-sensitive indicators (NSIs) and outcomes directly into Press Ganey’s National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators ( NDNQI ). What is the NDNQI?

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Patient Safety Movement

JUNE 1, 2023

On the first day of the Summit, global patient safety leaders call for increased urgency in reducing preventable deaths. In a keynote address, Don Berwick, MD, MPP, FRCP, former administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services pointed out that one in four hospital patients experience injury as a result of their care.

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Patient Safety

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Recently, the nursing team on 3 South at Fox Chase Cancer Center reached the significant milestone of one full year—365 consecutive days—with no patient falls on their unit. Staff were educated on the new patient education form developed by the Fall Prevention Committee.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Three in four nurses working in hospitals care about the success of their institution — “they show up and gown up…yet only 57% feel a sense of ownership in their hospitals, leaving leaders to expect 100% quality to be delivered by about half of the nursing workforce.” health system. health system.

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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 9, 2022

The pandemic exacerbated those patient safety weaknesses, leaving healthcare facilities with insufficient capacity to prevent common, often deadly, healthcare-associated infections. Even before the pandemic, hospital IPC programs were underfunded and understaffed. For the U.S.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 27, 2023

This includes nurse and clinician shortages, which persist across hospitals and health systems nationwide. About 100,000 nurses left the workforce during the pandemic, with over 600,000 reporting their intention to leave by 2027, citing stress and burnout as primary reasons. Engage your clinical workforce Ask nurses for their input.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 3, 2022

As a Board-Certified Internist and Geriatrician with over 35 years of providing care in nursing facilities, this sentiment has guided me throughout my career. Far too many of our SNFs have become the worst place to be either as a patient/resident or an employee. Our nursing facility industry is about to crumble. million to 1.35

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Patient Safety

DECEMBER 16, 2022

As nurses around the globe battled COVID, one inconvenient truth became glaring: There were not enough nurses to provide care. Now that we have emerged from the pandemic, nurse educators have become more important than ever. How can we ensure the next generation of nurses is dynamic enough for whatever might come their way?

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 3, 2022

" When it comes to balancing mission-critical efforts alongside major emergencies, she said, one thing that stands out is the need to operate within the framework of patient safety and regulations even when faced with a generational crisis. "Those things don’t go away!" " she said.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 6, 2022

With the experience gained and quality outcomes demonstrated, the health system decided to take a similar approach in lower-acuity care settings that still required direct, continuous observation of at-risk patients. "Labor-pool cost savings, staff efficiency and patient safety were the primary focus."

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Susan E. Mazer, Ph.D

OCTOBER 1, 2021

They often worked in unsafe environments, being responsible for more patients than they could safely care for. Nurses hear about insufficiencies like not enough ventilators, not enough medication, not enough patient beds; there is not enough of anything. Patient safety is directly linked to nurse burnout.

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Patient Safety

DECEMBER 17, 2021

In fact, I would hazard that no one wants to be able to write about how their job gave them a debilitating mental illness that endangered their life and livelihood, but after living through nursing 2020–2021, here we are. million other nurses. COVID put me into a pot of boiling water with 3.7 None of us had a choice.

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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 2, 2022

The purpose of this primer is to provide updated information to the patient safety community about the challenges of ensuring the safe care of older adults in Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing homes (NHs) associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, and the federal and state efforts taken to mitigate these challenges. “The

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Briggs Healthcare

AUGUST 2, 2022

“Selected nursing homes may not have complied with Federal requirements for infection prevention and control and emergency preparedness. Specifically, 28 of the 39 nursing homes had possible deficiencies. OIG) found that 18 of the 39 nursing homes each had 1 possible deficiency related to emergency preparedness.

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Susan E. Mazer, Ph.D

MARCH 17, 2017

I have always wondered why patient safety is talked about by itself. As if all other procedures, policies, and practices are not about safety. And why should patient safety be separate from the patient experience? For staff, patient safety is a lot like playing in tune for a musician.

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Medi Leadership

MAY 16, 2022

Chances are your organization is struggling to fill nurse vacancies today, and nurses under your roof are struggling with burnout. Earlier this spring, a letter from the American Hospital Association to Congress reported two-thirds of hospitals have a nurse vacancy rate of 7.5% You’re not alone in that predicament, of course.

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Health Populi

APRIL 3, 2024

The phrase “patient safety” summons up a list of common sources such as medication errors, surgical errors, health care-associated infections, diagnostic errors, among other adverse events and harms people experience in the course of receiving health care. “Safety is the foundation of healthcare.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The system also allows remote monitoring from a central command centre, nurse stations, and mobile devices. Apollo's regional command centres have also been enabled to remotely assess patients' conditions and recommend further care.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 9, 2023

million front-line healthcare workers such as medical assistants, home health aides, and nursing assistants, according to a Mercer report. The Smart Care Facility Platform will also assist in creating discharge summaries, call summaries, recommend templates and other content for nurses, admissions, and discharge staff.

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Susan E. Mazer, Ph.D

JUNE 17, 2016

For four hours, we were asked questions that revealed that this was a medical negligence case, and something about sepsis, and something else about patient safety protocols and hernia operations. How Important Is It to Follow Patient Safety Rules? Then, the attorney asked the same question about patient safety.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 4, 2024

Ali Morin, MSN, RN-BC, VP of Nursing Informatics at symplr In the ever-changing landscape of healthcare, where tomorrow’s challenges are unpredictable, the need for strategically staffed and crisis-ready hospitals has never been more crucial.

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Susan E. Mazer, Ph.D

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Note: This is a popular post from 2014 that is still relevant to the critical issue of patient safety. Florence Nightingale was not only the Mother of Modern Nursing; she also was the Mother of Healthcare Design and Patient Safety. Thus, the patient safety and quality movement was born.

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Patient Safety

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Background: The nurse’s transition into practice is challenging. The need to facilitate a safe transition into practice and retain nurses is crucial in today’s healthcare. Semistructured, one-to-one interviews with nurses representing geographical locations across the nation were conducted.

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Briggs Healthcare

JANUARY 5, 2023

This AHRQ webcast will introduce the new Workplace Safety Supplemental Item Set that can be added to the end of the Surveys on Patient Safety Culture (SOPS®) Nursing Home Survey. The webinar is January 24, 2023 at 1:00 PM (ET).

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 29, 2023

What You Should Know: CareRev , a technology platform reimagining healthcare staffing by connecting hospitals and health systems with local nurses and other healthcare professionals for daily shifts, announced its expansion into Delaware with a partnership with Beebe Healthcare.

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Patient Safety

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Background: Inadequate hand-off communication from hospital to skilled nursing facility (SNF) hinders SNF nurses’ ability to prepare for specific patient needs, including prescriptions for critical medications, such as controlled medications and intravenous (IV) antibiotics, resulting in delayed medication administration.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 9, 2024

Revolutionizing OR Staffing: iQueue Staff Planner Enhances Efficiency and Patient Safety Charge nurses and nurse managers have seen a significant 5-hour weekly reduction in administrative tasks thanks to iQueue Staff Planner, as discussed at LeanTaaS’ Transform Hospital Operations Summit in Chicago.

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Patient Safety Movement

APRIL 27, 2023

Join Us for the 10th Annual World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit, June 1-2, 2023 Join us in celebrating our 10th anniversary summit with world-renowned speakers and panelists discussing the latest challenges and solutions in patient safety. Nurses Day on May 6 (U.S.) Nurses Day on May 6 (U.S.)

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