Your Nurses Can Fix Your Hospital
Nurses can improve quality and outcomes, enhance an organization’s culture, and build relationships with patients, colleagues, and the community—yet to do so, healthcare leadership needs to see them as more than just a cost center.
How the Perioperative Surgical Home Can Save Money and Improve Outcomes in Outpatient ORs
First introduced around 2012, the PSH model is a patient-centered, team- and evidence-based effort targeted at improving outcomes and lowering costs. Under the model, the anesthesiologists coordinate closely with nurses, surgeons, and other key players involved in surgical patient care.
Does Your Healthcare Facility Have Water Intrusion?
Whether visible or hidden, and regardless of the age of the facility, water and water vapor can cause fungal growth and deterioration of building components, along with physical symptoms in people. Finding the cause of water intrusion and fixing it correctly makes the difference in providing healthcare consumers with the safe environments they expect.
Tomorrow’s Solutions to Today’s Challenges in Minimally Invasive Surgery
The achievements of minimally invasive technology and techniques have been fantastic, and in many ways, we have addressed the above needs. But ask any interventionalist, and you will quickly learn that there are still pain points—limitations—preventing minimally invasive surgery from realizing its full benefits.
Can We Achieve ZERO Preventable Hospital Deaths?
The objective of the PSMF is to mobilize leaders across the world to reach more hospitals, healthcare technology companies, and the patient advocacy community to achieve the goal of ZERO preventable deaths by 2020.
Lessons Learned From a Death Outside a Hospital’s Doorstep
DeMarco’s refusal to accept the hospital’s silence, a desire for accountability, and ultimately a simple request for the hospital’s administration to sit down with him and apologize for the mistakes made were enough to make the hospital change its ways.
Industry Focus—Culture of Safety: Just Culture…It’s Much More Than an Algorithm
In a high-reliability culture, a paradigm exists that simply states that it is not realistic to expect zero human error. Human error is ubiquitous; it is inevitable. As much as we dictate policy and guidelines, as much as we practice and train, humans will commit errors; it is a constant.
Industry Focus—Infection Control: Examine Your Dialysis Space to Ensure Room to Separate Infectious Patients
Among other infection control practices for hemodialysis, surveyors will be observing water and dialysate testing, medication storage, preparation and administration, and “patient placement in full view of staff during dialysis treatment,” according to a Joint Commission official.
Safety Enhancements Every Hospital Must Consider in Wake of Another Tragic Neuromuscular Blocker Event
This type of error could happen anywhere given current system vulnerabilities frequently found in hospitals, particularly when using automated dispensing cabinets. In fact, ISMP has observed many of the same system vulnerabilities in other hospitals, and they are frequently at the root of a variety of medication errors reported to the ISMP National Medication Errors Reporting Program.
AI: Augmented Intelligence or Electric Sheep?
Although individuals on the panel expressed slightly differing views overall, they agreed that AI in healthcare is an overhyped concept inappropriately attributed to programs that do not fit any reasonable definition of AI tools.