Blog categorized as Patient Safety & Clinical Quality

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.
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.