Culture of Safety: How to Influence Accountability
Culture of Safety
How to Influence Accountability
This Q&A first appeared on the official blog of the Crucial Skills Newsletter—a weekly online publication from the authors of New York Times bestselling books Crucial Conversations, Crucial Accountability, Influencer, and Change Anything.
Infection Control : Using Change Management Principles to Improve Infection Control
Infection Control
Using Change Management Principles to Improve Infection Control
Change never ends in healthcare. Institutions must constantly adapt to evolving research, regulations, technology, and economic conditions as well as internal crises.
Because change is inevitable, successful organizations prepare for it. They know they must carefully plan the change process so that staff will broadly accept a new protocol, technology, or organizational strategy.
That’s why leaders in healthcare organizations study change management.
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ACR Task Force on Teleradiology Publishes New Practice Guidelines
IOM Plans to Add Diagnostic Error to ‘Quality Chasm’ Series
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IOM Plans to Add Diagnostic Error to ‘Quality Chasm’ Series
Mark L. Graber launched the 6th annual Diagnostic Error in Medicine (DEM) conference with a major announcement. Graber is founder and president of the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM), an organization that was formed just prior to last year’s DEM conference. DEM 2013, “Define, Measure, Improve,” was held in September at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.
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RFID, Barcoding, RTLS: The Connected Hospital
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RFID, Barcoding, RTLS: The Connected Hospital
Whether your facility is 40 years old or 4 months old, advances in technology can help increase patient and staff safety while improving efficiency. Tracking people and things throughout the building, monitoring care and medication, and assuring accurate patient identification are all enhanced by technology. Innovations are coming that can make the Connected Hospital a reality.
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New Joint Commission Alert Addresses Medical Device Alarm Safety in Hospitals
The constant beeping of alarms and an overabundance of information transmitted by medical devices such as ventilators, blood pressure monitors and ECG (electrocardiogram) machines is creating “alarm fatigue” that puts hospital patients at serious risk, according to a Sentinel Event Alert issued by The Joint Commission in April.
Seven Years, Zero CLABSIs: How a California Hospital Did It
Seven Years, Zero CLABSIs: How a California Hospital Did It
By Alan Reder, MA
Joint Commission executives Mark Chassin, MD, FACP, and Jerod Loeb, PhD, have an uncomfortable question for hospitals: If airlines and chemical plants can maintain superb safety records despite huge potential hazards, why can’t you?
MITSS: Supporting Patients and Families for More than a Decade
MITSS: Supporting Patients and Families for More than a Decade
Over the past decade, the patient safety movement has focused much of its attention on prevention, and rightly so. Still, even in the safest of systems, things can, and often do, go wrong. Of late, much has been published regarding the “second victim,” a term used to describe healthcare providers finding themselves on the sharp end of an error or adverse event. Yet, little has been documented about the emotional impact on patients and their families and the need for support following these events.
Addressing Alarm Problems in the Emergency Department
Addressing Alarm Problems in the Emergency Department
Stand for a few moments in the middle of your emergency department (ED) to just listen and observe. How many alarms do you hear? Can you distinguish where each alarm is coming from and whether it’s a physiologic monitor or ventilator or infusion pump alarm? Does each alarm connote the level of urgency needed for the nurse to respond promptly and appropriately? Do you observe nurses scurrying to respond? Or do the alarms perpetuate while no one responds?