Next time you’re brainstorming a way to engage staff in a patient safety–related fair or observance, consider creating a quilt. That’s what staff at Boone (IA) County Hospital, a 25-...

Identifying patients at risk for suicide has been a requirement of the National Patient Safety Goals since 2007. Since that time, inpatient suicide remains the second most frequently reported sentinel...

Ectopic pregnancy will be used throughout this article to illustrate some of the 2010 standards, highlighting The Joint Commission’s addition of hazardous medications to several standards in 200...

Patients expect that every safeguard is in place when receiving healthcare services. The challenge is how to make this happen with the complexities of the system in which healthcare is delivered, as s...

President Barack Obama has appointed Donald Berwick, MD, president and co-founder of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) administrator. ...

Although the 2010 National Patient Safety Goals (NPSG) are a much smaller set than last year’s version, keeping up with those goals that moved to the general standards is important for maintaini...

Just a reminder to AHAP members, the next working group call will take place on Thursday July 8th at 3PM EST (2PM Central, 12PM Pacific) and will discuss going restraint free....

True or false: Hospitals should perform a risk assessment to determine what areas of the hospital are considered security sensitive....

True or false: Baseline coagulation status should be determined before starting anticoagulation therapy....

The new guidelines contain information on the supervision of a certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA). They also include the supervision of anesthesiology assistants (AA) for those states that ...