Researchers estimate that each additional nurse-hour per patient day is associated with 10% lower odds of receiving penalties under The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's Hospital Readmissio...

Reaching in once again to the viewer mailbag, we find a question regarding the laundering of staff uniforms. In this particular instance, this organization is moving from a business casual dress code ...

How would you prove that the hospital has a sufficient number of competent, qualified, staff to care for patients?...

When it comes to blood clots in surgical patients, "vigilant hospitals get penalized because [when] they look more, they find more. Their rankings look atrocious," says the author of a repor...

Recently I received a question from the field regarding whether employers are required to provide antibody testing at the conclusion of the Hepatitis B vaccine administration process. Now, this is an ...

The terms “contact,” “droplet,” and “airborne” refer to what?...

Encouraging healthcare workers to get their flu shots has been a patient safety and quality of care issue for years. Mandatory public reporting of this hospital quality measure is finally moving the n...

I recently came across a survey finding that I thought would be worth sharing with the class. In this particular survey, an organization was cited because it had not identified the square footage of t...

For our final 2013 benchmarking survey and report, we decided to go back to our first year to see if one of our original surveys would benefit from and update so we could compare and contrast how thi...

The standards in the EC chapter are organized around some basic concepts. What are those concepts?...