Test staff knowledge on The Joint Commission's standards on miscellaneous topics with the following questions. Answers may be found on p. 12....

Q: National Patient Safety Goal 15.01.01 says that the suicide of a patient while in a staffed, round-the-clock care setting is a frequently reported sentinel event, and that identifying at-risk in...

It's been six years since a group of infection prevention organizations, hospital associations, and regulators assembled to release the Compendium of Strategies to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infec...

Hello, everyone. I just wanted to let you know that if you missed last week’s networking call you can now listen to the recording on the AHAP website....

Given the prevalence of Environment of Care (EC) standards appearing on this year's list of most cited standards, it should come as no surprise that The Joint Commission has focused its latest Booster...

The next Quarterly Conference Call is scheduled for this Wednesday, May 23, at 2pm EST/1pm Central/11am Pacific. For those members who have signed up, a notification with dial-in instructions should h...

The Joint Commission, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and 22 other organizations are celebrating National Fire Prevention Week, October 7-13, by commemorating the one year anniversary of the...

For hospitals using The Joint Commission for the purposes of deemed status, verbal orders should be signed within ________ except when ____________. ...

True or False: As long as a hospital has a thorough and complete formulary, the hospital can omit having a process to obtain medications that are not on the formulary....

We talk often about the cost of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) violations in terms of regulatory fines and penalties, and we may also mention that similar privacy regulati...