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National Guidelines, Quality Measures Clearinghouses Shutting Down

 If you or anyone at your hospital use the National Guidelines Clearinghouse or National Quality Measures Clearinghouse operated under the auspices of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), download the information you need soon. Both online clearinghouses will go dark after July 16 as federal funding runs out.

Briefings on Accreditation and Quality

AORN guidelines on unintended retention of a foreign body focuses on counting and communication

 Patients continue to be stitched closed with surgical sponges, gloves, needles, electrodes, scalpels, wires, tweezers, forceps, scopes, masks, tubes, and scissors left inside them. To combat the problem, the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) released updates to its Guideline for Prevention of Retained Surgical Items back in 2016.



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Avoid Eyewash-Related Regulatory Compliance Issues

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Patient Safety Strategies: Building a Fall Prevention Toolkit

April 24, 2018



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