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The phone on your desk can ring with news of a wide variety of events that will make your heart sink and yield trouble for the hospital for months to come, but few can rival being notified that a patient has committed suicide in your emergency department (ED).
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Risk managers focusing on the risk of suicide should remember that their own physicians also can be at high risk, says Matt Steinkamp, vice president of service delivery at Physician Wellness Services, a company based in Minneapolis that helps employers deal with impaired physicians.
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Most hospitals have no documented information about communication events phone calls, pages, texts, voicemails between their nurses, physicians and other clinicians that occur hundreds of times each day.
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At most hospitals, the vast majority of physician orders are still written by hand. That means a lot of hurried squiggles that no one can decipher, and time-wasting phone calls to clarify the order, not to mention the threat to patient safety
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James L. Reinertsen, MD, received a 2010 John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality award for individual achievement from The Joint Commission and the National Quality Forum
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Business groups raised an uproar over proposed changes in the interpretation of the noise protection rule, and the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration heard them.
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On January 18, OSHA administrator David Michaels, PhD, MPH, gave a speech to the advocacy group Public Citizen in Washington, DC. Here is what he had to say about an Injury and Illness Prevention Program rule:
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The first step toward building a new safety culture may be taking stock of the one you've already got. Do your employees believe that managers care about employee safety? Do they feel comfortable alerting managers to hazards? Do they use personal protective equipment when it's recommended?
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The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration is putting the brakes on its push for new regulations.
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Health care workers at public hospitals are at much greater risk of injury than workers at private hospitals, according to new data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics.
