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Wednesday, January 11, 2023

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OSHA Proceeding With Healthcare Rulemakings
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) will proceed with three rulemakings focused on the healthcare industry—standards for COVID-19, infectious diseases, and workplace violence—the Department of Labor (DOL) announced as part of the fall 2022 unified regulatory agenda unveiled January 4.
 

News & Analysis

Nurse Practitioners Have the Best Job in Healthcare
Besides ranking No. 1 in healthcare jobs, NP ranked No. 2 in the top 100 Best Jobs by U.S. News, the global authority in rankings. And though nearly 40% of the best jobs are in healthcare, a technology job—software developer—captured the top spot this year because of the “rising number of products and services that leverage software,” says Janica Ingram, careers editor at U.S. News.
The Key to Nurses' Well-Being? Go 'All in' on Wellness, Expert Says
High levels of stress, anxiety, depression, and poor physical health correlated with an increase in self-reported medical errors by critical care nurses (CCN), according to a study co-authored last year by Bernadette Melnyk, PhD, APRN-CNP, chief wellness officer of The Ohio State University and dean of the university’s College of Nursing.
PSQH: The Podcast

PSQH: The Podcast Episode 69 – Lessons Learned From Infectious Disease Outbreaks

On episode 69 of PSQH: The Podcast, Dr. Art Papier, CEO of VisualDx, talks about lessons learned about dealing with infectious disease outbreaks.
Upcoming webinar

Are You Focusing on the Right Errors? The Fine Art of Prioritizing Your Incident Reports

In this Jan. 31 session, speaker Ken Rohde will focus on multiple approaches to prioritize where you make your improvement actions and how you can build an “Improvement Portfolio” that is cost effective, regulatorily aware and defensible to your leadership.
Share Your Innovative Quality Improvement Ideas
Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare is seeking to spotlight the best healthcare quality improvement case studies. By imparting their in-the-trenches experiences and lessons learned, the chosen case studies will shed light on an issue, practice, or principle that affects stakeholders across the modern medical staff landscape. The deadline for submissions has been extended to January 30, 2023.
 

Industry Events

Thursday, 2/16 - International Conference on Patient Safety in Healthcare

Saturday, 3/4 - 2023 World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit

Tuesday, 4/11 - SHEA Spring 2023 Conference

 

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Building a High-Reliability Organization: A Toolkit for Success, Second Edition

This book looks at the role leadership played in transforming their facilities into high-reliability organizations (HRO). By implementing top-down processes that translate throughout the organization, leaders can create environments that foster high reliability, patient safety, and care. Through the use of checklists, the authors demonstrate how situational awareness and structure can be created, leading to the HRO goal of preventing adverse events and errors.

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