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Medical Environment Update
- Volume
33
Issue
9

Q&A: Can you make lab safety training engaging? : Part 1

December 13, 2025
Laboratory Safety, Leadership & Finance, Policies and Procedures, Workplace safety
Getting staff engaged with safety training can be the difference between them remembering how to do something safely and them injuring themselves or others. ...
Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor
- Volume
17
Issue
36

Virtual reality decreases nursing students’ unease in treating anxiety-prone patients

December 13, 2025
Behavioral & Mental Health, Policies and Procedures, Healthcare Staff
Full-immersion virtual reality simulation decreased nursing students’ anxiety levels when communicating with anxious patients, says new research published in the September issue of Clinical Simulation...
Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor
- Volume
17
Issue
35

CDC launches Hospital Sepsis Program Core Elements to help sepsis patients

December 13, 2025
Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Infection Control, Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors
On August 24, the CDC launched the Hospital Sepsis Program Core Elements, with seven core elements aimed at strengthening survival and recovery rates for all sepsis patients. Hospitalized patients wit...
Patient Safety Monitor Journal
- Volume
24
Issue
8

Improving behavioral healthcare: Examples of unnecessary rules

December 13, 2025
Behavioral & Mental Health, Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures
“One thing behavioral healthcare can do is get rid of unnecessary rules—rules that have been developed for staff convenience or organizational reasons like cost, rather than for patient comfort and ca...
Patient Safety Monitor Journal
- Volume
24
Issue
8

Improving customer service in behavioral health

December 13, 2025
Behavioral & Mental Health, Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Workplace safety
While the term might invoke images of restaurants, hotels, and store clerks rather than healthcare, customer service is about working with stressed, unhappy, or potentially violent customers/patients ...
Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor
- Volume
17
Issue
32

ONC: Hospitals need to put SDOH data to use

December 13, 2025
Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Health Equity
More than 80% of hospitals recently surveyed by the American Hospital Association are collecting data on social determinants of health (SDOH), many through their EHR platform and health information ex...
Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor
- Volume
17
Issue
30

Nurses, not policymakers, should determine appropriate staffing levels

December 13, 2025
Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Healthcare Staff
Staffing is a complex decision based on the experience and clinical expertise of the nurse, care team, resources, and patient needs,” AONL said in a prepared statement. “Organizational leaders, nurse ...
Patient Safety Monitor Journal
- Volume
24
Issue
7

Q&A: Customer service to promote better behavioral healthcare

December 13, 2025
Behavioral & Mental Health, Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors, Healthcare Staff
For the good of providers and patients, behavioral healthcare facilities need to prioritize good customer service, says Kevin Ann Huckshorn, PhD, MSN, RN, ICADC, a licensed and certified mental health...
Patient Safety Monitor Journal
- Volume
24
Issue
7

Q&A: Customizing team-based care

December 13, 2025
Leadership & Finance, Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors
Jeff Salvon-Harman, MD, CPE, CPPS, vice president at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, spoke with PSMJ about how to create a team-based care model that works best for your hospital, clinic, or...
Patient Safety Monitor Journal
- Volume
24
Issue
7

Making better outcomes: How team-based care fits into high reliability

December 13, 2025
Leadership & Finance, Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors, Healthcare Staff
“Often the work drives us together, but again, then it gets to that difference between ‘we connect when we have to because the work demands it’ versus ‘we’re intentional in the team construct and we m...

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