Health care providers and organizations often struggle with using
chaperones. Conversations revolve around issues of duty, choice, safety,
budgetary...
Category - Patient Safety/Clinical Care
Threats and acts of violence have continued to escalate in
health care organizations and physician practices across the nation[i].
The following are...
Hospitals and health care employers often rely exclusively on injury data, patient falls and OSHA logs for decision making on safe patient handling...
Events of the past decade have changed how Americans view safety and security. While physician offices and ambulatory medical facilities won’t require the...
The internet of things (IoT) consists of objects endowed with computing power through processors or imbedded sensors that are capable of transmitting...
Breaking up with difficult patients is a hot topic for health care providers. Having a properly structured termination process for the ambulatory/physician...
Some seem to believe that physicians, although human, are part of some master race – one that soldiers on battling their own disease, death and a cadre of...
Although there are many quotable passages in James Reason’s 2008 book The Human Contribution, this is one of my favorites:
For any organization, the only...
In working with patients, their families and visitors, at some point we all encounter someone who is angry, hostile or frustrated. Conflict is inevitable and...
Most states have Do-Not- Resuscitate laws. However there are different requirements from state to state and not all DNR orders are honored between states. For...