Managing Healthcare Staffing Needs

Managing Patient Identification: The Right Patient, Every Time

In any unit, one of the most important safety checks is making sure the right patient receives the right treatment. The Joint Commission knows the importance of identifying each patient before tests are run, medications are administered or procedures are performed.   Being able to locate the proper identification in a timely fashion to guarantee patient safety is absolutely critical in medical error prevention.

 

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National Patient Safety Goals for 2008
Healthcare environments are swamped with information. We educate on organizational information. We educate on clinical processes, procedures, policies and resources. We educate on new program implementations. The problem is, none of this matters if we don't educate on safety. Read more

Managing Mistakes: Learning From Them
When it comes to patient safety, we all have memories of events that are unsettling. Medical mistakes occur and are often tragic. What would be worse is if we did not learn for them. Read more

Transitioning from Staff Nurse to Nurse Manager
Rome wasn't built in a day; neither can a truly effective nurse manager by made in a day. Yet professional training for management-bound RNs is seldom comprised of more than a few disjointed days and/or weeklong development seminars. Such training is valuable but, by itself, inadequate. Read more

The Data-Driven Nursing Residency
Facing wave after wave of new-graduate nurses, many hospitals have instituted training or residency programs to improve the competence and confidence of their nursing staff, lower their costs and increase the quality of care patients receive. However, it is important to ask two key questions. First, are these residency investments paying off? And second, how can a hospital measure the effectiveness of its training programs with meaningful data? Read more