Hospital Peer Review – July 1, 2010
July 1, 2010
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Is your hospital prepared if a crime should occur on your campus?
A couple enters the emergency department the wife with a black eye and fresh bruises on her arm. She tells registration she fell down the stairs. -
Common threats and how to deal with them
Experts Hospital Peer Review spoke with say some of the most common criminal activity in hospitals involves assaults by patients on other patients or staff; patients in psychiatric units; patients on drugs; prisoner patients; acts prompted by domestic violence; patients on drugs; and gang members or VIP patients. All present unique challenges. -
Guidelines from the International Association for Healthcare Security and Safety (IAHSS)
STATEMENT: Healthcare Facilities (HCF's) will implement an interdisciplinary protocol addressing workplace violence prevention and response. -
Access policies: A hard or soft approach?
Assessing your hospital's threats should help you address what type of police or security presence you should have. And just as crimes vary by community, security presence differs by institution. -
Serial murders in health care settings
The case of Charles Cullen is one of the most egregious cases of serial murder in health care settings, according to Beatrice Yorker, JD, RN, MS, FAAN, dean of the college of health and human services at California State University Los Angeles, who has researched and published in the field of forensic nursing. -
Accreditation Field Reoport: Pain assessment, documentation TJC focus
With its latest survey, beginning May 25, 2010, and ending May 27, Holy Family Memorial had the most surveyors it ever had seven and its first life safety survey. Mary M. Schilder, quality management, accreditation/CME coordinator, and privacy specialist, says the surveyors, who visited "every single clinic and department," were "very educational." -
Now live: Interim staffing effectiveness standards
As of July 1, The Joint Commission's interim staffing effectiveness requirements are in effect for hospital and long-term care organizations, as it continues to research the issues associated with the standards.