By now, the Health Insurance Portability and ­Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) is well known to the healthcare community. Hospital staff and physicians have long been practicing a strict standar...

Years ago, when I wanted information on certain patient safety subjects, I might have gone to multiple sources—the Internet (of course), a colleague within my network, and maybe even a book....

Has patient safety over-compartmentalized itself? There are some days when the field of patient safety gets a little down on itself about the slow pace of change in the past couple of decades. How...

Ensure correct HPPD for best patient care Determining and agreeing on how many hours per patient day (HPPD) it takes to care for your patient population is a challenging aspect of our work as nurse...

The National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) will soon kick off its annual Patient Safety Awareness Week (PSAW), which runs March 4-10. ...

The National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) will soon kick off its annual Patient Safety Awareness Week (PSAW), which runs March 4-10. ...

After reading this article, you will be able to: Discuss how many deaths are believed to be caused by ­radiation from CT scans, according to a recent article by the American College of Radiol...

Privacy curtains are a seemingly innocuous part of a patient room compared with the various other high-touch surfaces that are the focus of environmental cleaning. ...

Policies and procedures are the backbone of the hospital and provide the aim and direction of hospital operations....

Test staff knowledge with this quiz on the National Patient Safety Goals. Answers are on p. 12....