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| In late April, Ann Scott Blouin, RN, PhD, FACHE, executive vice president of The Joint Commission, wrote a blog post detailing the need for a practical approach to healthcare’s endemic workplace violence (WPV) problem. In her post, Blouin explains three methods of violence prevention in hospitals. |
| Briefings on Accreditation and Quality There’s been much ado about The Joint Commission’s new scoring system, the Survey Analysis for Evaluating Risk (SAFER) matrix. But, unless you happened to be one of the facilities surveyed in the last four months, it means that you still haven’t seen SAFER in practice. So what are people saying about the new system? Is it better or worse than the one that came before?
Victoria Fennel, PhD, RN-BC, CPHQ, director of accreditation and clinical compliance at Compass Clinical Consulting, says Compass has heard from clients who’ve experienced the matrix and most of the feedback has been very positive. 
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