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Handoff Communications: Toolkit for Implementing the National Patient Safety Goal will help providers use handoff practices to reduce the risk of medical errors and comply with the National Patient Safety Goal, according to Joint Commission Resources (JCR), which developed the toolkit.
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Within a group purchasing organization, work with specific vendors, suggests Terry Hawes, RN, vice president of Dallas-based National Surgical Care.
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Clinical pathways, multi-disciplinary plans of care for patients with a particular diagnosis, are not only for members of the medical team. Simple versions of these pathways, written in lay language, help to empower patients and their families, and also initiate involvement in the management of their care.
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Cholesterol is a common word. Most people easily connect it with heart disease. Yet in spite of this familiarity, many Americans have cholesterol in the high-risk range.
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When MCGHealth was planning a new neuroscience unit at its Augusta, GA, facility, patients and family members were involved every step of the way.
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Automation and high-tech systems often are touted as the solution for medication errors, but the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) in Horsham, PA, is warning that you could be substituting one type of medication error for another when you use automated dispensing cabinets (ADCs).
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At Children's National Medical Center in Washington, DC, families are given a patient pathway to accompany certain clinical pathways that are used by the medical team to coordinate care.
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Not all teaching is equal. Some is time - and labor-intensive. That is the case with training on equipment that many premature babies and other children must use to survive.
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Reducing falls is a constant worry for hospitals, and sometimes it seems there are no new ideas. But many health care providers are finding the most success with an approach that includes a wide range of efforts, everything from special equipment and monitoring systems to making sure every employee is empowered to prevent falls.
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Including patients and family members in everything from developing a plan of care to making changes in the hospital's physical appearance has paid off at MCGHealth in Augusta, GA.
