Patient Safety & Clinical Quality
The Great Hospital Escape - A Tale of Patient Safety on the Run
Read a personal account about patient safety and emergency door alarms.
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Patient Safety & Clinical Quality
Strategies for Nurse Driven CAUTI Prevention
Our in-house RN, Kimberlee Aubrey, offers strategies for nurses to drive CAUTI prevention.
Patient Safety & Clinical Quality
3 Mistakes When Implementing Digital Rounding Solutions
Trouble implementing digital rounds? Three ways to help promote new rounding solutions AND Improve Patient Safety and Quality of Care
Patient Safety & Clinical Quality
Patient Safety: Which Type of Data Collection is Better ?
Applying the photo versus video analogy to hospital data collection in order to improve patient safety.
Patient Safety & Clinical Quality
How to Improve Patient Safety in 15 Minutes a Day
Taking the “Huddle Challenge” or How to Improve Patient Safety in Fifteen Minutes a Day
Hand Hygiene
Are your manicured fingernails spreading infection?
The World Health Organization (WHO) states that HCWs who wear artificial nails are more likely to harbor Gram-negative pathogens on their...
Patient Safety & Clinical Quality
Patient Safety: Why is it Still an Issue in 2015?
Patient safety continues to be a public issue that affects everyone in this country, patients and caregivers alike.
Hand Hygiene
NOROVIRUS - The gift no one wants!
This is the time of year when it seems that everyone is sick, some with cold and flu, but many with gastrointestinal illnesses.
Patient Safety & Clinical Quality
Spoiled Milk and Patient Safety: Making a Case for Checklists
Blog | Patient Safety and Making a Case for Checklists
Hand Hygiene
Hand Hygiene - Patients Should Not Have to Remind Us to Wash Our Hands
Hand Hygiene - Should Patients be Reminding us to Wash our Hands?
High Reliability Organization
The Ethics of Proactively Checking – and Improving!
We in health care, have access to an array of methods of checking the reliability of systems and processes to improve care.
Hand Hygiene
The Dirty Truth of Hand Hygiene
We know that pathogens causing Healthcare Associated Infections (HAIs) are most frequently spread between patients on the hands of healthcare workers
Patient Safety & Clinical Quality
CAUTI & CLABSI: Ending the Blame Game
As professionals in healthcare, we are taught and trained to heal, not harm. But when poor patient outcomes occur, who is to blame?
Patient Satisfaction & Experience
6 Must Haves for implementing Hospital Checklists
To the point, we all mostly agree that it is important to check for quality, patient safety and patient experience.
Environment of Care
Increasing Patient Safety Through a Safe Environment
Explore increasing Patient Safety Through a Safe Environment