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Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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COVID-19 and the Hierarchy of Controls

December 21, 2025

Environment and Facilities, Infection Control, Workplace safety, Quality & Errors

With a spike in both COVID-19 and influenza cases expected this fall, many are reexamining and shoring up their infection control processes. Healthcare providers have already made several changes this...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

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Protect longterm supply chain: Don’t hoard, just order what you need

December 21, 2025

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities, Infection Control, Workplace safety

As the COVID-19 surge continues through its second wave and collides with influenza season as well as hurricanes, wildfires, or whatever natural disasters the year still has in store, supply experts h...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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OSHA fines hospitals for PPE failures related to COVID-19

September 18, 2020

Environment and Facilities, Workplace safety, Infection Control

Ensure workers are trained fit-tested for using respirators and are not sharing protective gowns as they care for potentially infectious patients, or you may face fines from OSHA. ...

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Survey: Emergency preparedness training needed for nurses

December 21, 2025

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Patient Safety, Workplace safety

In addition to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the United States and the world continues to be challenged by disasters, such as droughts, earthquakes, fires, floods, severe weather events, and terroris...

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IHI rolls out new National Action Plan for patient safety

December 21, 2025

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

December 21, 2025

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...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

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‘Hope is not a plan’: Points to consider for a season of COVID-19 plus flu

December 21, 2025

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Patient Safety, Workplace safety, Infection Control

Keep assessing how you triage your COVID-19 and influenza patients as the flu season escalates, and include facilities management as well as clinicians and other staff in the continuing discussion. Ma...

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4 recent research articles examine N95 respirator mask sterilization methods

December 21, 2025

Infection Control, Workplace safety

N95 respirator masks have been in limited suppl since the beginning of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, and sterilization is a primary strategy to address shortages of this key person...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Patient Safety Monitor Journal, September 2020

December 21, 2025

Behavioral & Mental Health, Environment and Facilities, Patient Safety, Quality & Errors, Workplace safety, Cybersecurity & Technology, Infection Control

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Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Use of force in healthcare

December 21, 2025

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Behavioral & Mental Health, Natural & Manmade Disasters, Patient Safety, Workplace safety

As the nation continues to discuss use of force by law enforcement, healthcare organizations must have their own discussions on how force is applied on their grounds. There are no simple solutions for...

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COVID-19 and the Hierarchy of Controls

Protect longterm supply chain: Don’t hoard, just order what you need

OSHA fines hospitals for PPE failures related to COVID-19

Survey: Emergency preparedness training needed for nurses

IHI rolls out new National Action Plan for patient safety

Avoid punitive approach to your safety event reporting

‘Hope is not a plan’: Points to consider for a season of COVID-19 plus flu

4 recent research articles examine N95 respirator mask sterilization methods

Patient Safety Monitor Journal, September 2020

Use of force in healthcare

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