When It Comes to Patient Safety, ‘Good Enough’ Is Simply Not
While we will never fully eradicate safety events, we can ensure we manage safety better. This is especially critical now. We are only beginning to fully realize some of the pandemic’s far-reaching consequences, including extreme turnover among our most experienced nursing and clinical staff, pervasive budget cuts, and department or hospital closures, all of which threaten even the most robust quality and care safeguards.
Patient Safety Awareness Week Resources
Patient Safety Awareness Week (PSAW) is coming to a close, but the focus on patient safety and healthcare quality will continue on as always. Thanks to all the dedicated professionals who work in healthcare organizations to provide top-notch care. We highlighted some of these efforts this week and will continue to do so.
PSQH Quick Poll: Taking the Pulse of Patient Safety
As part of PSQH’s celebration of Patient Safety Awareness Week, we decided to reach out to our readers with a few questions to find out the state of patient safety efforts in 2023. Part of PSQH’s Patient Safety Awareness Week activities, this PSQH Quick Poll is presented in partnership with GOJO – the makers of Purell, Nuance, Origami Risk, and the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission. The Quick Poll had a total of 105 respondents.
How Virtual Monitoring Technology Improves Patient Safety
To overcome challenges associated with staffing shortages and improve patient safety, many leading hospitals and health systems have turned to virtual monitoring technology, in which a remote team of care providers supports a hospital’s bedside providers through audio and visual connections in patient rooms. This model of care helps health systems improve clinical safety and quality while liberating their bedside nurses to provide elevated, hands-on patient care.
Facilities Demonstrate a Commitment to Quality and Patient Safety through IAC Accreditation
By Tamara Sloper For more than 30 years, IAC accreditation has provided facilities with a method for demonstrating their commitment to providing quality patient care. Facilities performing a variety of diagnostic testing and interventional procedures, across a wide range of settings from private offices, outpatient imaging centers to community hospitals and large medical systems have … Continued
Healthcare Risk Management Technology Supports Patient Safety Culture
By Origami Risk The key to establishing a transformative safety culture begins with leadership and filters through the entire organization. “Leaders are key to instilling a commitment to safety in all members of the organization to create a positive safety culture,” writes Dana Costar in “Cross-Cutting Patient Safety Topics/Practices” from Making Healthcare Safer III: A … Continued
Improving Patient Safety: The Challenges and How to Make an Impact
By Tony Oliva, DO, MMM, FACPE – Vice President and CMO, Nuance In March of 2000, the book “To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System” was published. That publication began a national conversation and movement to address safety concerns and failures in our healthcare system. Unfortunately, since that time while we have seen … Continued
ECRI: Pediatric Mental Health Crisis Top Patient Safety Concern of 2023
Patient safety has been a pressing issue in healthcare since 1999, with the publication of the landmark report To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System. Despite two decades of attention, estimates of annual patient deaths due to medical errors have risen steadily to as many as 440,000 lives, a figure that was reported in the Journal of Patient Safety in 2013.
Ready, Set, Grow: Planting Seeds for Successful Change
By Lori Moore, MPH, MSCE, BSN, RN Change is a constant in healthcare, and over the past few years, the pace has quickened. And the fact that there has been little time to prepare has made implementing change even more difficult. Healthcare organizations have had to move from an initial idea to full-scale implementation … Continued
Preventing Hospital-Acquired Infections is Everybody’s Job, Not Just Nurses
Awareness is the key to a successful infection prevention program, says Carol Vance, MSN, RN, PHN, CIC, the multi-site prevention director for Advocate Children’s Hospital in Chicago, a 381-bed facility that is one of the largest network providers of pediatric services in Illinois.