Featured Story | | IHI Launches Maternal Care Improvement Project | | Supported by a grant from Merck for Mothers, the project’s goals are to spread the use of evidence-based care practices to reduce complications such as hemorrhaging, hypertension, and blood clots. |
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News & Analysis | | HFAP Revises Standards With Ligature Risk Updates | | Several HFAP standards have been updated, including Staff Training - Identification of Patients at Risk for Harm, Periodic Monitoring for Safety Issues, Building Safety, and Review of Safety Policies and Procedures. |
| HAIs Can Cause Emotional Pain, According to Study | | Researchers at Glasgow Caledonian University in Scotland looked at 17 studies from five different countries that examined five different HAIs, with a focus on patient experiences of colonization and infection from bacteria that commonly cause HAIs. |
PSMJ member content Q&A: Joint Commission Focuses on Dialysis | | Jennifer Cowel, RN, MHSA, is president of Patton Healthcare Consulting in Naperville, Illinois, and Kathleen Good, MSN, RN, is an associate of the company. They are both Joint Commission alumni and spoke with PSMJ about maintaining a safe dialysis program. |
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| Product Spotlight | | | | In this three-hour virtual workshop on Wednesday, September 26, learn about the hot spots in hospital compliance in such areas as ligature risk, high-level disinfection and sterilization, titration and therapeutic duplication, sterile compounding and USP 797, management of dialysis programs (including infection control), training and competencies, and common problems within the environment of care and life safety. In highlighting the top noncompliant standards, our compliance experts will take you through photographic illustrations of common problems; they’ll also help you identify the trouble areas in your hospital through an interactive process. Register now! |
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