Blog categorized as Patient Safety & Clinical Quality

Improving Patient Satisfaction Using the 5 Ps of Proactive Hourly Rounding
The 5 P's is a simple but effective way to ensure patient satisfaction and safety are being provided consistently.
The 5 Ps of Rounding: The Foundation of Patient Satisfaction
Proactive rounding that incorporates the 5 Ps is the foundation to delivering consistent, superior patient satisfaction and experience.
Improving Hospital Wayfinding to Boost HCAHPS Scores
Explore how hospital wayfinding strategies enhance patient experience and satisfaction through clear signage, digital tools, and seamless navigation.
Your Environmental Rounds Cheat Sheet: Problems, Causes, and Fixes
A practical troubleshooting guide for environmental rounds, helping you identify common safety challenges, understand their root causes, and implement effective solutions.
Overcoming the Challenges of Nurse Leader Proactive Rounding: Strategies for Success
Unlocking the Hidden Barriers and the Path to Effective Rounding Strategies
Creating a Culture of Quality: Strategies for Hospital Leaders
Explore actionable strategies for hospital leaders to cultivate a culture of quality by focusing on clear communication, data transparency, staff engagement, and sustainable performance improvement.
Active Shooter in Your Hospital Part II
Part 2 of the preventive steps to address healthcare's response to an active shooter crisis.
The Pain Game - How Will Your Hospital Play?
The AMA wants to lose pain as “the 5th vital sign.” How will this affect your hospital?
Top 5 Concerns of Hospital CEOs
The Top Concerns of Hospital CEOs and more latest hospital news stories.
The Solution to Healthcare's Hemorrhaging Costs of CAUTI & CLABSI
The Hemorrhaging Costs of CAUTI & CLABSI in Healthcare.
VAE Prevention Strategies & Tips | Healthcare Associated Infections
Find out what data is needed for collection and reporting in order to reduce VAE rates.
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
Sentinel Events & Patient Safety: The Disturbing Data, Part I
One thing is very clear: hospitals, by and large, have not embraced a culture of safety.
The Great Hospital Escape - A Tale of Patient Safety on the Run
Read a personal account about patient safety and emergency door alarms.
The 8-Step Program to Becoming CAUTI-Free
Since 2014 only slight improvements have been reported each year. So, what is causing this CAUTI epidemic?
Strategies for Nurse Driven CAUTI Prevention
Our in-house RN, Kimberlee Aubrey, offers strategies for nurses to drive CAUTI prevention.
Active Shooter in your hospital: Are you prepared? [Patient Safety]
Implementation specialist, Wendy Axlund, discusses the preventive steps to address healthcare's response to an active shooter crisis.
The Hidden Key to Higher HCAHPS Scores: Better Use of Communication Boards
In today’s healthcare environment, where HCAHPS scores directly impact hospital funding and reputation, leveraging patient communication boards effectively can make a measurable difference.