When it comes to nursing documentation, a few areas tend to trip up organizations, requiring them to refocus their efforts. Let’s examine these areas....

Sometimes it takes a spark to bring about a large, important change in an organization. For St. Alexius Medical Center in Hoffman Estate, IL, changing to an improved electronic policy and procedure pr...

Sometimes the lessons learned when working to improve nursing education and empowerment are truly worth sharing—even half a world away. ...

As consultants, we still see citations issued to hospitals for failure to adequately monitor clinical contracted services provided to their patients. Do you know whether you are doing a satisfactory j...

Patient safety staff members at VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System (VAPHS) knew they had a chance to increase their incident reporting, so they did something about it. And what they did didn’t requ...

Do you or your leadership team know how many quality improvement (QI) and performance improvement (PI) teams your organization currently has? Does your frontline staff know the organization’s st...

True or false: It is important to educate caregivers on the risks of coagulation therapy, potential drug or food interactions, and the importance of proper monitoring and follow up. ...

Lean works for healthcare. It has simple concepts to learn and teach. However, Lean projects are far from easy to undertake. Accomplishing Lean requires hard work, and it is tiring. The “easy&rd...

The Joint Commission’s Center for Transforming Healthcare (CTH) has announced the second in its series of solutions for top healthcare challenges: hand-off communication. ...

True or false: Medication containers should be labeled when performing procedures outside of t he operating room. ...