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Improving the health of patients in your hospital is a large enough challenge, but imagine taking on the well-being of an entire city.
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Employees have gotten very creative about diverting medications and drugs, and some are using newer anesthetics that aren't easy to test for, warns Bruce Cunha, manager of employee health and safety, and infection prevention and control, at Marshfield (WI) Clinic.
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Education is an important facet of the drug testing program at Tampa (FL) General Hospital, says JoAnn Shea, CHON-S, MS, ARNP, director of employee health services.
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Suppose your facility was the subject of a malpractice claim, and a nurse told you that the surgeon happened to be on the phone when the mistake was made that injured the patient. Surely the surgeon was talking to another physician or reviewing lab results for the patient, right?
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The Chicken Littles are out in force since the new ambulatory surgery center (ASC) rates have been posted.
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Because medication reconciliation is recognized as a key factor to prevention of medication-related errors, accreditation organizations require outpatient surgery programs to take steps to improve this process.
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American hospitals are making measurable strides in the quality of care provided for patients with surgical conditions, according to Improving America's Hospitals: The Joint Commission's Annual Report on Quality and Safety 2007, The Joint Commission's second report on health care quality and patient safety in hospitals.
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Organizations accredited by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) in Skokie, IL, won't have to make major changes to meet new and revised standards in 2008, but they do have to read the standards manual carefully.
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A surgical tech takes fentanyl from an anesthesia tray and substitutes it with a normal saline solution (NSS). He is caught when someone sees him taking the drug from the unattended anesthesia tray.
