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Expert shares strategies to address bullying and incivility in healthcare

February 12, 2026

Leadership & Finance, Workplace safety, Healthcare Staff

Bullying and incivility are rampant in healthcare organizations. A 2018 study found that 43% of nurses had experienced at least two negative behaviors on a weekly or daily basis, and 12% of nurses sel...

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Take action: Use self-assessment, resource guide to take hard look at patient harm

February 12, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Leadership & Finance, Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors

Review the latest patient safety road map with your accreditation managers, C-suite, and governing board because they may be asked about it during your next accreditation survey. Then use the self-...

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IHI rolls out new National Action Plan for patient safety

February 12, 2026

Leadership & Finance, Patient Safety, Quality & Errors, Workplace safety

With the goal of eliminating preventable medical harm, a new National Action Plan was released today by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s (IHI) National Steering Committee for Patient Safety ...

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Avoid punitive approach to your safety event reporting

February 12, 2026

Leadership & Finance, Patient Safety, Workplace safety

Two decades after the dawn of the patient safety movement in healthcare with the publication of “To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System,” medical errors remain a vexing challenge at healthcar...

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Inside Accreditation and Quality, September 2020

February 12, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Natural & Manmade Disasters, Leadership & Finance, Infection Control

Subscribers, download this month's full IAQ newsletter Not a subscriber yet? Sign up for a Basic of Platinum membership to gain access to all Patient Safety Monitor Journal and Inside Accreditati...

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Case study: Virtual reality at Vanderbilt

February 12, 2026

Leadership & Finance, Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors

How the academic medical center designed a virtual reality course for point-of-care ultrasound training Teaching a hands-on process using virtual reality (VR) may sound counterintuitive, but that’s...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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How to update your restraint and seclusion policy

February 12, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Leadership & Finance, Natural & Manmade Disasters, Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Workplace safety

Kevin Ann Huckshorn, PhD, MSN, RN, CADC, ICRC, a national behavioral health consultant with years of experience in hospital settings and now the director of evidence-based practices and programs for W...

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Physician shortage projected to worsen through 2033

February 12, 2026

Leadership & Finance, Workplace safety

The projected shortage of physicians is worsening. Last year, the AAMC projected the shortfall of physicians at as many as 122,000 by 2032. The new report released today projects the shortfall at as m...

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Q&A: Many hospitals still don’t have drug diversion programs

February 12, 2026

Leadership & Finance, Patient Safety, Quality & Errors

The following Q&A resulted from a conversation PSQH had with Tom Knight, CEO of Georgia-based Invistics, a provider of cloud-based software solutions that improve healthcare inventory visibility a...

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A prescription for social determinants of health

February 12, 2026

Behavioral & Mental Health, Leadership & Finance, Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors

New programs support physicians in addressing these key drivers of health outcomes It’s become more widely accepted that social determinants of health (SDoH)—the environmental conditions in which p...

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Expert shares strategies to address bullying and incivility in healthcare

Take action: Use self-assessment, resource guide to take hard look at patient harm

IHI rolls out new National Action Plan for patient safety

Avoid punitive approach to your safety event reporting

Inside Accreditation and Quality, September 2020

Case study: Virtual reality at Vanderbilt

How to update your restraint and seclusion policy

Physician shortage projected to worsen through 2033

Q&A: Many hospitals still don’t have drug diversion programs

A prescription for social determinants of health

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