Hospital Peer Review – February 1, 2010
February 1, 2010
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Signing, dating, and timing your verbal orders: Are you in compliance?
It's nothing new. Compliance with verbal orders has been a struggle for hospitals for more than 25 years. Many experts Hospital Peer Review spoke with compare verbal-order compliance to hand-washing compliance. It's behavioral. It's something we know we have to do. And it's not a matter of ill-intentioned practitioners. It's a matter of time and logistics. -
Will EMRs help verbal order compliance?
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in 2007 stipulated a five-year period in which verbal orders must be "dated, timed, and authenticated promptly by the prescribing practitioner or another practitioner responsible for the care of the patient, even if the order did not originate with him or her. -
New medical staff standard still ruffling feathers
When The Joint Commission revised its medical staff standard in 2007, there was tumult in the field. -
Do new nurses have QI skills, understanding?
She watched the young nurse getting chastised for making an error and could see the fear in her face as her manager's voice rose in anger. The young nurse was put on indefinite leave. That's what happens when you make mistakes, she thought to herself. -
Quality improvement, orientation for new nurses
Beth A. Duthie, RN, PhD, director of patient safety at NYU Langone Medical Center, wasn't surprised by findings in the study "New nurses' views of quality improvement education" published in the Jan. 10 issue of The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. -
Accreditation Field Report: Surveyors focus on informed consent, nails
With its last survey in December 2006, Faith Regional Health Services ended up in conditional status.