Creating a Culture of Caregiver Support
Researchers urge proactive, positive programs to protect healthcare workers from burnout, trauma, and abuse.
Vaccine Safety: Is Your Team Up To Snuff?
Take time in the final week of August to reflect on immunization preparedness and handling practices in your facility.
Bringing Innovation To Your Facility
In healthcare, some of the best innovations are deciding what not to do—especially when the current practice has no evidence basis.
The Case for Creating A Culture of Caregiver Support
Organizations are developing “second victim” programs to provide care for the caregivers—programs specifically focused on helping healthcare workers recover from trauma.
Fundamentally Human: Learning By Design
Simulations are carried out in the actual clinical areas of care, and with strong objectives, pre-briefs, and debriefs, can also achieve significant outcomes without substantial investment.
Study: Bullying Linked to Decline in Patient Safety
A majority of the events included verbal abuse and intimidating behavior, and other issues reported were work interference and humiliating and threatening behavior. The events occurred in many areas of care, especially in perioperative care, medical/surgical units, and emergency departments, and were often prompted by procedural errors and complications.
Opinion: Uniqueness is Not Unique
With all the regulatory and reimbursement changes occurring in our industry at an ever-increasing rate, one thing is for certain: Your organization is not unique. When speaking to organizations, I often hear things like, “Well, we don’t have the resources that the university hospital has” from community hospitals and then the university hospitals will … Continued
Using Data Analytics to Change Behavior
The data-analytics application works in conjunction with the smart pump system to create a continuous quality loop to strengthen patient safety, opportunities for improvement, and data-driven insights.
Five Years of Nursing Innovation at Massachusetts General Hospital
Five years ago, PSQH spoke with Jeanette Ives Erickson, RN, DNP, FAAN, about a new and exciting innovation in her hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) – an initiative that designated 12 Innovation Units, where a philosophy of relationship-based care and 13 evidence-based interventions could be safely tested. This March, we checked in to see how the initiative has fared.
Sparking Healthy Competition Among Teams
What brings teamwork to life? A subtle but essential enabler is competition—the push to improve.