Establishing a competency validation program is an effective risk mitigation strategy. Knowledge surrounding a concept or skill is only a portion of what...
Category - Patient Safety/Clinical Care
Improving health care risk management processes and systems is ongoing. Leigh Ann Yates, AIC, MBA, CPHRM, DFASHRM, offers insights
into her experiences as an...
Challenged by transfers of care between hospitals and
post-acute care facilities? You are not alone. Administrators and nursing leadership in both settings...
“Building a High-Reliability Organization: A Toolkit for Success” is an
extremely valuable resource for anyone seeking to make their health care
facility...
While Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) has traditionally been a focus for large hospitals and health systems, many ERM strategies can be effectively...
In health care organizations and physician practices, dynamic relationship issues and concerns among family members and their physicians often provide an...
ASHRM Academy 2020 will be held in Spring 2020. The programs referenced in this article will also be offered at ASHRM 2019 Pre-conference in Baltimore on...
Health care providers and organizations often struggle with using
chaperones. Conversations revolve around issues of duty, choice, safety,
budgetary...
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...