A nurse leader advocates for "positive deviance" in nursing—bending or tweaking rules or guidelines in the interest of positively affecting patient care, even though there is no outco...

Fill in the blank: MDRO stands for ____________....

The most recent round of administrative penalties for hospital deficiencies constituting immediate jeopardy includes two patient falls resulting in deaths, a wrong-site surgery, and a retained surgica...

AHAP’s own Jodi Eisenberg was recently interviewed on the changing world of accreditation. AHAP has been given permission to reprint the contents of that Q and A. Click the link above to read mo...

A while back we discussed the two tribes that inhabit the healthcare world—the finders and the fixers. During that discussion, I advised the development of a more robust participation on the par...

A Texas hospital announced it won’t accept the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award after former patients filed lawsuits alleging that the facility allowed a neurosurgeon to repeatedly botch ...

A Canadian study of surgical safety checklists found no significant difference in outcomes after hospitals began using the tools. ...

A new study found that one in five U.S. health facilities doesn’t make alcohol-based hand sanitizer available at every point of care. ...

What additional steps, besides the use of two patient identifiers, are required when preparing to administer blood or blood products?...

Fill in the blank: When a patient is both in restraints AND secluded, the patient must be ______________ by ________________....