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NAHQ: Quality professionals and quality work essential during crises such as coronavirus pandemic

April 15, 2026

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Leadership & Finance, Quality & Errors, Infection Control

The coronavirus pandemic has illustrated the value of quality professionals and their work in healthcare, according to a recent whitepaper from the National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ). ...

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Add sleep problems to the list of COVID-19 challenges for nurses

April 15, 2026

Behavioral & Mental Health, Workplace safety, Healthcare Staff, Infection Control

Working the front lines of the early COVID-19 pandemic led to sleepless nights, anxiety, and depression for more than half of nurses surveyed for a new study. “Nurses are already at risk for higher...

Healthcare Safety Leader

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OSHA emphasizes engineering controls in workplace violence citation

February 08, 2022

Workplace safety

Review your workplace violence prevention program to ensure staff are protected from violent patients. That includes the use of engineering controls. A solid program might not only save your staff fro...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

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Rely on CMS memos to keep updated on CoP expectations

February 08, 2022

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

Expect hospital accrediting organizations to continue to update their standards, especially to align more with the language in CMS Conditions of Participation. ...

Mac's Safety Space

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It never really ends, does it…

February 07, 2022

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant Concept-wise, this week’s topic is rather limited, but there is a little bit of ground to cover. I am hopeful that this is no news for most of you, bu...

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Opioid use disorder plays significant role in many sepsis cases

April 15, 2026

Infection Control, Quality & Errors

The Sepsis Alliance is highlighting the intersection of sepsis and opioid use disorders. Sepsis develops in response to infection, and can lead to tissue damage, organ failure, and death. Sepsis is th...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Medication reconciliation: Prescriptions from multiple providers provide room for error

April 15, 2026

Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors

The importance of medication reconciliation is obvious. When taken together, certain medicine combinations can cause harmful effects. Therefore, keeping an updated record of all the medicines a patien...

Medical Environment Update

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Points of origin

April 15, 2026

Laboratory Safety, Workplace safety, Infection Control

After two years of watching and waiting, I have been infected with the COVID-19 virus. I realize that this is nothing special. Millions of others have caught the virus, and some have had a far more de...

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IAHSS Q&A on Executive Protection Guideline 06.03

April 15, 2026

Leadership & Finance, Patient Safety, Workplace safety

The International Association for Healthcare Security and Safety (IAHSS) has released its Executive Protection Guideline 06.03. As of January 2022, it was in the process of finalizing the guidance. ...

Healthcare Safety Leader

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Work on COVID-19 worker protections ahead of OSHA scrutiny

February 01, 2022

Infection Control, Workplace safety

OSHA’s two COVID-19-related emergency temporary standards (ETS) requiring specific worker protections as well as vaccinations are both on hold for now but you may still be held responsible for those w...

NAHQ: Quality professionals and quality work essential during crises such as coronavirus pandemic

Add sleep problems to the list of COVID-19 challenges for nurses

OSHA emphasizes engineering controls in workplace violence citation

Rely on CMS memos to keep updated on CoP expectations

It never really ends, does it…

Opioid use disorder plays significant role in many sepsis cases

Medication reconciliation: Prescriptions from multiple providers provide room for error

Points of origin

IAHSS Q&A on Executive Protection Guideline 06.03

Work on COVID-19 worker protections ahead of OSHA scrutiny

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