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What Providers Can Do This National Suicide Prevention Week
National Suicide Prevention Week is September 10-16, bringing awareness to the 10th leading cause of death in the United States. This week is a time for physicians, nurses, and other providers to learn more about how their healthcare organizations can help suicidal patients.
 

News & Analysis
Study: ED Intervention Reduces Suicide Attempts by 30%
Intervention efforts included additional suicide screening, suicide prevention info, and a personalized safety plan for dealing with future suicide ideation, and periodic telephone follow-ups. Those who received these interventions made 30% fewer total suicide attempt than others.


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Communication Deconstructed: 7 Elements of Effective Clinical Communication

This webinar will discuss the importance of building clinical communication workflows to create highly reliable human experiences that enable powerful, positive, and personal human interactions through seven key framework elements.

PSMJ Member Content

How to Spot Suicide and Ligature Risks in Your Facility

Last year The Joint Commission issued a Sentinel Event Alert to hospitals urging them to do a better job of identifying suicidal ideation in patients, this year the accreditor is doubling down, issuing specific warnings in Joint Commission publications and FAQs outlining concerns about ligature, or hanging, risks.
A Call for Standards, Auditing of Hospital Quality Data
Quality data looks good in ads and on hospital and health system websites. A little too good at times.
 

Industry Events
Thursday 9/14- ISMP Medication Safety Intensive
Monday 9/18- NAHQ Next 2017
Monday 9/25- ABMS Conference 2017
Thursday 9/28- IHI/NPSF 10th Annual Lucian Leape Institute Forum & Keynote Dinner
Sunday 10/15- ASHRM 2017 Annual Conference
 

  

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Building a HIgh-Reliablity Organization

Through step-by-step instructions and a practical, straightforward approach, authors Gary L. Sculli, MSN, ATP, and Douglas E. Paull, MD, FACS, FCCP, CHSE demonstrate how your organization can ensure safe patient care, every day, for every patient.
 
 

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