In the first three articles of this series, Vicki Searcy, president, consulting services at Morrisey Associates Inc. in Chicago, introduced the four basic components of clinical privileging. She examined establishing criteria for privileges as well as accepting applications for privileges and applying criteria.
It's a proposed rule. So it's up for comment. And that's a good thing, because there are many in the field.
Michelle Buckman, RN, MSN, is a psychiatric clinical nurse specialist working as a consultant to the Loma Linda University Medical Center emergency department.
According to Craig Luzinski, MSN, RN, NEA-BC, FACHE, chief nursing officer at Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins, CO, the hospital received the American Nurses Association (ANA) NDNQI (National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators) Award for Outstanding Nursing Quality for the fourth consecutive year.
The National Quality Forum (NQF) has endorsed four outcome-based mental health measures looking at depression and patient satisfaction in an inpatient psychiatric hospital stay.
How's this for a turnaround? A few years ago, patient satisfaction levels in the three EDs of the Cambridge (MA) Health Alliance were in the lowest decile in Massachusetts, and now they are consistently in the top quartile.
A major obstacle to implementing process or quality improvement measures is finding out what the people impacted by the change think.
IRBs continue to work toward streamlining the handling of multisite studies through alternative models of review. But they can sometimes struggle with a process that requires them to accept the review of another board in place of their own.
A presidential commission has begun carrying out President Barack Obama's charge to review human subjects protections in U.S.-sponsored research both here and abroad, in the wake of revelations about unethical research carried out in Guatemala in the 1940s.
As Washington University in St. Louis, MO, expanded its interest in community-engaged research (CEnR), officials realized that both the researchers and their community partners needed to better understand human subjects protection requirements.
