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Top Patient Safety Concerns Touch on IT, Patient Identification Issues
This year’s list of top patient safety concerns proves that health systems continue to battle health IT implementation issues, while also struggling with patient safety stalwarts like disinfection, medication errors, and even patient identification.
 

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Working With Law Enforcement to Better Protect Your Healthcare Workers and Patients
One might argue that the most effective managers are those who don’t manage alone. Effective managers listen to their employees and customers and incorporate their feedback into training and future management decisions. They work with dependable partners to improve processes and conditions.
Q&A: Are Nursing Strikes on the Rise?
Labor disputes between nurses and hospitals are nothing new, but over the past few weeks we’ve seen a lot of national news stories about nurses going on strikes.
Opioid Prescribing May be Impervious to State Laws
Drug monitoring laws are on the rise, but their effectiveness in curbing the prescribed use of hydromorphone, oxycodone, and other narcotics for pain is unclear.
To Do No Harm, Rethink How to Measure Hand Hygiene
Primum non nocere is a Latin phrase that means, “First, do no harm.” It is a precept taught to healthcare students around the world and paraphrased in the Hippocratic Oath. Unfortunately, a vast amount of avoidable harm still takes place in healthcare settings worldwide. The good news is that a new …
 

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Featured Webcast: Clarifications of the Most Common Joint Commission Safety Findings

Join expert Brad Keyes, CHSP, owner of Keyes Life Safety Compliance on Thursday, July 21, from 1–2:30 p.m. Eastern Time, for a discussion of the most commonly cited life safety and environment of care violations found when Joint Commission surveyors inspect hospitals. Joint Commission officials have expressed public frustration with what they say are repeated violations of crucial items such as fire safety, maintaining a sterile environment, means of egress, and proper documentation.