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2007 - 2006

Employment Opportunities

• New Hanover Regional Medical Center / Outcomes Managers / Wilmington, NC / 1-24-12

• OhioHealth / Director of Accreditation (RMH) / Columbus, OH / 1-16-12

• Tulane Medical Center / Vice President – Quality & Risk Management / New Orleans, LA / 1-5-12

• Sibley Memorial Hospital / Patient Safety Specialist / Washington, DC / 1-4-12

Magazine

January/February 2012

Features

Columns

• Editor's Notebook: Technology and Culture

• Health IT & Quality: Big Data Drives Big Change

• Device Integration: EMR Adoption and the Roles of the CMIO and CNO

• Surveillance Technology: Taking CDS to the Next Level for Medication Management

• ISMP: Multiple Latent Failures Align to Allow a Serious Drug Interaction to Harm a Patient

• Pulse

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2007 - 2006

November / December 2007: • Zero Tolerance: Curbing Catheter-Related Blood Stream Infections; • Communication, Collaboration, and Critical Thinking = Quality Outcomes; • Delivering System Transformation Part I: Respect, Communication, and Best Practices; • Ensuring Medication Reconciliation; • Collaborative Model Leads to Improved Patient Flow
September / October 2007: • Why Worry About Near Misses?; • Reducing Complexity: A Strategic Approach to Optimizing the Medication Use Process for All Medications; • Critical Care Safety Essentials; • Building a Culture of Safety: Creating a Patient Safety Infrastructure through Teamwork Training; • From Punitive Action to Confidential Reporting: A Longitudinal Study of Organizational Learning from Incidents
July / August 2007: • Going High-Tech to Meet the Preparedness Challenge; • The Business Case for Patient Safety; • We're Not Your Enemy: An Appeal from a Consumer to Re-imagine Tort Reform; • Private Health Records and the Health URL; • EHRs, PHRs, and ePrescribing: How Do the Pieces Fit Together?; • Barcode Basics: Why Printing, Symbology, and Media Choices Matter
May / June 2007: • Point-of-Care Medication Error Prevention: Best Practices in Action; • Improving Safety with Barcode-Enabled Medication Administration; • Making the Most of Data for Patient Safety; • Asset Tracking Systems: Readiness and Selection Factors; • Improvement in Healthcare is Possible — Just "be the Ball"; • Stepping Out of the Classroom: Simulate to Educate
March / April 2007: • Integrating Patient Safety into Curriculum; • RN Residency: Seeking a New Paradigm; • The Role of Enterprise Staffing and Scheduling in Quality Assurance; • The First 10 Minutes: Taking Medical Simulation to the Field; • The Universal Bed Care Delivery Model; • Online Support for IV Drug Administration
January / February 2007: • Transforming Practice with Mobile Clinical Tools; • Empowering Care Through Communications Technology; • Trends in Point-of-Care Alarm Notification; • Measure, Compare, and Improve; • Smart Pumps: Advanced Capabilities and Continuous Quality Improvement
November / December 2006: • CDS and Medication Reconciliation; • Clinical Inference and Rapid Response Teams; • The Role of the Medical Librarian; • Safety Culture in Rural Hospitals; • Maximizing PICU/NICU Bed Utilization
September / October 2006: • MRI Suites: Safety Outside the Bore; • No Hidden Patient: Facility Design for Safety; • E-Prescribing in Massachusetts: Collaboration Leads to Success; • Heart Safe or Heart Break: What Every Clinician Needs to Know About AEDs; • Evidence-Based Review Promotes Evidence-Based Medical Practice; • Beyond Bricks and Mortar: Transforming the Emergency Department
July / August 2006: • Disruptive Clinician Behavior: A Persistent Threat to Patient Safety; • Web-Connected Patients and Doctors: The Case for Personal Control of Private Health Information; • Partnering for a Successful Technology Conversion; • Visual Learning Tools Overcome Health Illiteracy; • Tackling Health Illiteracy
May / June 2006: • IV First - A New Barcode Implementation Strategy; • Six Sigma Approach to Reducing CVC-Related Bloodstream Infections; • Inpatient Falls: Lessons from the Field; • Informed Consent: Comprehension Is the Key; • The DUN Factor: How Communication Complicates the Patient Safety Movement; • RHIOs Aim to Transform Quality of Care and Patient Safety; • Trends in RFID: Ready for Prime Time?
March / April 2006: • Naval Aviation Safety and Its Application to Medicine; • Making CPOE Work: Redesign Workflows to Optimize Benefits; • Q&A: Directing a Medical Simulation Center; • Six Sigma and Change Management: Reducing Hospital-Acquired Pressure Ulcers; • Evidence-Based Medicine in the Pharmacy; • Pathologist Review: Quality Assurance, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Patient Care
January / February 2006: • Emerging IT Enablers: Physician Practice Connections; • Just What the Doctor Ordered: Using an HIN to Improve Care; • The Evolution of Evidence-based Medicine; • Ensuring Successful Care Management; • Improving Safety in Obstetrics with Decision Support and Clinical IT; • Enhancing Access and Quality for Breast Health Services; • Improved Patient Care at a Glance; • Medication Errors: Focus on Legibility

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