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System alerts clinicians when patients need interventions
Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center has designed a process that combines clinical expertise with technology to detect subtle changes in patients’ conditions and alerts the hospital’s Rapid Response Team to intervene in real time before the patients get any worse.
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Safety First initiative helps hospital cut safety events by 50%
Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center’s Safety First Every Day initiative has resulted in a 50% reduction in serious safety events, declines in falls with injuries and infections in intensive care units, and an increase in safety occurrence reporting.
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Patient status reviews are on hold again
Patient status reviews by the Recovery Auditors have been delayed again, this time until Oct. 1, 2015, by an act of Congress.
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A tale of two discharge plans
Sue Dill Calloway, RN, MSN, JD, CPHRM, CCM, CCP, president of Patient Safety Education and Consulting in Dublin, OH, relates two stories from real life to illustrate how discharge planning is closely aligned with patient safety.
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Part of patient advocacy is reporting errors
Hospital case managers are in a prime position to see many things that consistently go wrong or need improvement but, like everyone else, may be reluctant to bring them up.
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Focus on patient safety all day, every day
You may think that because you’re a case manager, you aren’t directly involved in patient safety. You couldn’t be further from the truth, experts say.
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Double jeopardy: Hospitals, surgeons dinged twice by CMS for surgical infections, readmissions
Surgical site infections are a costly twice-told tale, as surgeons and hospitals are penalized when they occur and again if the patient is readmitted.
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Bioethics panel: After chaotic Ebola response, IPs should be key players in future outbreaks
A bioethics panel report on the response to the Ebola outbreak gave a ringing endorsement to infection preventionists, saying in times of a public health crisis U.S. policy should provide “this group the support to act to the fullest extent of their licensure and abilities.”
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Empowered nurse practitioners in ID medicine?
In the wake of Ebola, other emerging infectious diseases, common HAIs, and an ever-expanding array of reporting requirements and regulations, infection preventionists and their infectious disease colleagues are too often short-staffed and stretched to the breaking point.
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Nurse infected with Ebola blasts hospital in suit
A lawsuit by Nina Pham, RN, against Texas Health Resources includes some explosive allegations regarding her occupational Ebola infection after caring for an infected patient at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas in early October 2014.