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The importance of incident reporting in nursing

Patient Safety Blog

What is the purpose of an incident report in nursing? The purpose of an incident report in nursing is multifaceted and crucial for both patient safety and quality improvement as well as legal documentation. In this article we’ll tell you all about incident reporting in nursing.

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Improving Communication From Hospital to Skilled Nursing Facility Through Standardized Hand-Off: A Quality Improvement Project

Patient Safety

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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Quality Improvement: Eliminating the Silo Effect in Healthcare Organizations

HIT Consultant

Without all of the teams involved in clinical care working as one team to quickly identify problems, find evidence-based practices, run tests of change, study results, and identify and disseminate improvements, progress will be spotty at best. Eliminating the silo effect.

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Epic & Press Ganey Integrate to Streamline Nursing Quality Data

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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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#JHMChat: Handling Patient Safety Events With a Focus on Just Culture, Not Prosecution

Hospital Medicine

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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How Hospitals Can Overcome the Challenges of Diabetes Management

HIT Consultant

Despite an unwavering commitment to well-being and safety, these facilities are overwhelmed by a growing number of priorities and hampered by a shrinking labor force – which hamstrings their ability to implement a plan for success. This poses a significant limitation to developing standards of care for patients with diabetes.

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How Clinical Decision Support Can Help Alleviate Provider Burnout

HIT Consultant

In other cases, hospitals turn to travel nurses to alleviate understaffing, improve workflows, and reduce time spent on inefficient tasks. Such technology can unite care teams such as nurses, specialists, pharmacists, and hospital leadership.