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Patient education managers must stay abreast of the latest technology for delivering patient education to involve the learner and provide individualizing teaching to meet the needs of the learner, says Fran London, MS, RN, a health education specialist at The Emily Center, Phoenix (AZ) Children's Hospital.
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When case managers for Medical Management International visit clients and providers, they use the latest information technology equipment to enter documentation, create and transmit reports, forward orders for durable medical equipment, tests or procedures, and send letters to patients, physicians, attorneys, or other interested parties, all in real time while they are still with the patients.
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CEO Rob Mackenzie, MD, used his leadership position to help drive the culture change at Cayuga Medical Center in Ithaca, NY.
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In response to a task force's recommendations following a wrong-site surgical error, Cayuga Medical Center in Ithaca, NY, implemented these changes:
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When a surgeon at Cayuga Medical Center in Ithaca, NY, performed a procedure on the wrong side of a patient's back in 2008, the sentinel event stunned the hospital's administration. But it wasn't long before hospital leaders were formulating a plan to make sure it never happened again.
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To improve patient safety by encouraging healthcare providers to speak up about their concerns, risk managers should focus on the influences that have the strongest effect on behavior, suggest the authors of The Silent Treatment, conducted by VitalSmarts, a corporate training company in Provo, UT, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, and the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses.
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The investigators prospectively enrolled and followed a cohort of 97 teens before and six, 12, and 18 months after starting DMPA.
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Is your facility participating in National HIV Testing Day on June 27? If not, you may be missing an important community outreach opportunity to help people learn their HIV status.
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Since results of the 2002 Women's Health Initiative (WHI) report suggested that use of menopausal hormone therapy increases risk of coronary heart disease, science has examined the timing of therapy initiation on safe use of such treatment.
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