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Keeping healthcare workers safe and healthy is a crucial part of maintaining a high quality healthcare facility

Healthcare Safety Leader

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The risks you accept and the risks you can change: Inherent vs. residual risks

May 31, 2022

Environment and Facilities, Workplace safety

Risks in the laboratory can be split into two categories, says Sean G. Kaufman, CEO and founding partner of the lab safety company Safer Behaviors. First, he says, are the physical and environmental r...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Stress on top of stress: Tips for managing PTSD for healthcare providers

May 25, 2022

Health Equity, Workplace safety

Events such as the May 14 grocery story shooting in Buffalo, New York, and the May 24 school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, can be triggering for anyone in healthcare—particularly for anyone who has been ...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Q&A: What the Vaught case means for healthcare

December 19, 2025

Behavioral & Mental Health, Health Equity, Workplace safety, Quality & Errors

Patient Safety Monitor Journal spoke with Kurt Patton, MS, RPh, pharmacist, founder of Patton Healthcare Consulting, and former director of accreditation services for The Joint Commission about the im...

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Breaking down new and revised Joint Commission workplace violence prevention requirements

December 19, 2025

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Workplace safety

The Joint Commission unveiled new and revised workplace violence prevention requirements effective January 1, 2022. Specifically, it issued three new elements of performance (EP) for existing standard...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Fast facts about monkeypox

December 19, 2025

Infection Control, Workplace safety

As of this writing, there is a single confirmed and six presumptive cases of monkeypox reported in the U.S. While everyone hopes this is not the start of another pandemic situation—knock on wood—it is...

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Quarter of physicians report experiencing mistreatment at work

December 19, 2025

Health Equity, Workplace safety

A survey of physicians found that a significant proportion of the clinicians had experienced mistreatment in the prior year, with patients and visitors the most common source of abuse, a new research ...

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Nurse staffing think tank develops toolkit to address staffing crisis

December 19, 2025

Leadership & Finance, Policies and Procedures, Workplace safety

Actionable and immediate strategies for staffing in acute and critical care practice have been unveiled by a specially formed think tank to address the nurse staffing crisis. The Nurse Staffing Thi...

Healthcare Safety Leader

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Remember security concerns when planning construction projects

May 03, 2022

Environment and Facilities, Physical environment, Workplace safety

Hospital projects have slowed throughout the pandemic as construction supplies and worker shortages, along with infection control mandates, have hindered progress nationwide. As the pandemic begins to...

Medical Environment Update

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Key trends and cautionary tales: Staffing shortages and patient safety

December 19, 2025

Leadership & Finance, Health Equity, Workplace safety

Ask any healthcare executive to name the biggest issue that will demand their attention in 2022, and the response will be staffing shortages and their impact on patient safety. Those focused on improv...

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Overwhelming hardship wrought by the pandemic created 'moral distress' in frontline nurses

December 19, 2025

Leadership & Finance, Workplace safety, Infection Control

Nurses on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic suffered overwhelmingly from "moral distress," says a new study from researchers at DePaul University’s School of Nursing in Chicago. The study's pur...

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The risks you accept and the risks you can change: Inherent vs. residual risks

Stress on top of stress: Tips for managing PTSD for healthcare providers

Q&A: What the Vaught case means for healthcare

Breaking down new and revised Joint Commission workplace violence prevention requirements

Fast facts about monkeypox

Quarter of physicians report experiencing mistreatment at work

Nurse staffing think tank develops toolkit to address staffing crisis

Remember security concerns when planning construction projects

Key trends and cautionary tales: Staffing shortages and patient safety

Overwhelming hardship wrought by the pandemic created 'moral distress' in frontline nurses

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