Top 10 Medical Technology Hazards for 2020 Announced

Source: Hospital Safety Insider

Surgical staplers are the top medical technology hazard for 2020, according to the ECRI Institute.

Sticker shock: Compliance your way (not someone else’s)!

Source: Mac's Safety Space

As we continue our October re-visitation of some of your more evergreen topics and I was thinking that I had covered this particular topic recently, but it turns out it was rather a long time ago—2012, to be exact (my, my, my, how time flies!).

Keyes Q&A: Plywood walls, oxygen cylinders, and fire watches

Each month, Brad Keyes, CHSP, owner of Keyes Life Safety Compliance, answers your questions about life safety compliance.

Use checklist to help staff clear areas to protect at-risk patients

While The Joint Commission (TJC) clarified that it does not expect all patient care rooms in general acute or emergency department settings to be ligature free, your staff still needs to remove possible items for self-harm from a room if the patient occupying it is considered to be at risk.

Disposal of Sharps: Can You Leave Them in the Bin for Central Accumulation?

If your facility generates waste in the form of needles or other sharps, you may wonder how these sharps should be disposed of in the central accumulation area (CAA). Can they stay in their red biohazard bins with a label?

The workers to be thankful for...

… and those to be worried about.

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Drug Diversion by Healthcare Personnel

Presented on: Monday, October 21, 2019 | 1:00–2:30 p.m. Eastern

Presented by: Kimberly New, BSN, JD

This webinar presented by expert speaker Kimberly New, BSN, JD, will explore current trends in drug diversion by healthcare personnel and will address how facilities can develop a straightforward approach to diversion prevention, detection, and response.

Attendees will have the opportunity at the end of the program for a live Q&A with the speaker.

At the conclusion of this program, participants will be able to:

• State current trends in diversion
• Identify best practices to address auditing
• Implement processes to improve diversion prevention, detection, and response in their facilities

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