The American Nurses Association (ANA) issued a press release applauding The Joint Commission for implementing standards that allow nurse-led practices to qualify as primary care medical homes....

AHAP is currently looking for topic suggestions for its upcoming benchmarking survey. If there are any particular topics you’d like us to report on, please contact Matt Phillion directly at mp...

True or false: We need to define what are critical values, as well as the time frames for reporting those values to the appropriate caregiver. ...

They Joint Commission has approved a new National Patient Safety Goal (NPSG) set to go into effect in 2012. The new goal focuses on catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI), and will be a...

AHAP is currently looking for topic suggestions for its upcoming benchmarking survey. If there are any particular topics you’d like us to report on, please contact Matt Phillion directly at mp...

True or false: Hands should be washed or decontaminated with hand gel after every contact with a patient. ...

The Joint Commission has released an official statement reacting to revisions by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to its telemedicine credentialing and privileging requirements, ...

The 2011 Salary Survey Report has been uploaded and is available for viewing on the AHAP website. You can find it under the Benchmarking Surveys tab, or just click here....

The Joint Commission requires which of the following? ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have released a much-anticipated final rule intended to ease the burden of cumbersome credentialing and privileging requirements for the use of t...