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Celebrating National Nurses Week with the latest news and analysis about patient safety and healthcare quality.
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Featured Story
Nursing’s Role in Quality Improvement
ATTEND TODAY: Nurses play a vital role in care delivery, but they also are hugely important when it comes to quality improvement. Part of PSQH’s celebration of National Nurses Week 2021, this webinar examines how nurses fit into the healthcare quality process and how your organization can maximize their efforts.
 

News & Analysis
Improving Communication With Technology
Eliminating the technology that has complicated patient care is not an option, so health systems are searching for strategic technology deployments to address some of the challenges that have emerged. The results aim to bring physicians, nursing staff, and patients back into the realm of more meaningful interaction.
The Moments in Between: Monitoring Patients in Transit
A study on transporting intensive care patients found that out of 262 transports, 26% had an adverse event—many of which were serious, including oxygen desaturation or hemodynamic instability. How can clinicians work to avoid these situations? And how can organizations leverage the electronic medical record (EMR) to analyze how and when they happen?
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Hospital Experience: Improving Family and Patient Health Status Communication
Using a mobile application to keep families and loved one’s connected in and outside of the hospital Communication Challenges With hospitals restricting visitors due to COVID-19, patients’ loved ones are left waiting and wondering about health status. Digital boards and templatized care-transition messages don’t do enough to calm anxiety. This content is presented in partnership with Vocera Communications.
 

Industry Events

Thursday, 5/13 - 2021 IHI Patient Safety Congress (virtual)

Monday, 6/28 - APIC 2021

Monday, 8/9 - HIMSS21 Global Health Conference & Exhibition

Monday, 9/13 - NAHQ Next Annual Conference (virtual)
 

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Analyzing the Hospital Life Safety Survey, Fourth Edition

Life safety expert and independent consultant Brad Keyes, CHSP, provides a practical, strategic approach to the life safety survey process. He walks you through a room-by-room, floor-by-floor analysis of the life safety measures you must have in place to avoid costly citations. The book simplifies Joint Commission standards and CMS requirements and focuses on ways to pass your next life safety survey.

 

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