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Quality and safety can be improved by providing special training to nurses and then making them the bedside champion for best practices, says Liz Carlton, RN, MSN, CCRN, director of quality, safety, and regulatory compliance at the University of Kansas Hospital (KUMED) in Kansas City, KS.
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Violence can be reduced in hospitals only by addressing the issue head on, says Tony Kubica, a founding partner of Kubica Laforest Consulting in Warwick, RI, and formerly a hospital executive in charge of security.
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Many people, including a lot of risk managers, thought The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore was taking a huge risk when it allowed ABC television crews extensive access to produce the groundbreaking series "Hopkins 24/7" in 2000. But the experience was overwhelmingly positive, says Gary M. Stephenson, MS, senior associate director for media relations and public affairs with Johns Hopkins Medicine.
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Health care providers are becoming more open to the media and willing to comply with requests for access that in years past would never have been allowed, but a television series is raising questions about how much media access is too much.
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A young woman presented to the emergency department (ED) of a hospital after being shot in the head with an air pellet rifle. Almost half an hour passed between the time the woman was seen by the ED nurse and the time the nurse informed the ED physician of the woman's condition.
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Counts are an essential tool for reducing the number of retained items in surgery, but they should be augmented with other strategies, according to one recent study.
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The Joint Commission (TJC) is underscoring its commitment to keep accreditation records confidential and its willingness to resist prosecutors' requests as far as the law will allow.
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Avoiding the wrong phone number problem begins during the intake process...
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Data gathering is key to reducing the risks associated with off-peak hours, says Patti Hamilton, PhD, RN, graduate studies at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, TX. But the data must be gathered and analyzed in a way that doesn't obscure the information about off-peak hours.
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A Florida woman was awarded $36 million by a jury in May after a pain management physician allegedly botched a steroid injection damaging the woman's spinal cord.