Comprehensive Pressure Injury Prevention;Use this risk assessment tool to protect patients' skin from pre-op to PACU.
Patient Safety: Priority One Protecting Patients; Houston Physicians' Hospital is committed to optimizing patient safety.
10 Tips for Safer Electrosurgery; Use these guidelines to keep both patients and staff safe.
Safety: Can You Spot the Drug Safety Hazard?
Are You Doing Enough to Prevent Pressure Injuries; Proper patient positioning will protect patients' skin from avoidable harm.
The Soul of a Surgical Safety Checklist; What started as steps on a static piece of paper is now a digital tool that enhances patient safety.
Safety; 5 Ways You Can Prevent Drug Diversion
Prevent Pressure Ulcers; 7 practical pearls to protect your patients' skin.
The Ink Must Go Where the Knife Will Cut; There'll be less wrong-site surgery if your surgeons cut through their initials.
Almost Left Behind; Lessons learned from a final count that came up 2 sponges short.
6 Hot Trends in Medication Safety; Add these technologies to protect your patients and staff from drug-related harm.
Compounders are engineering safety features into their prefilled products.
Is your staff prepared to swing into action to save a patient's life?
3 non-invasive ways to easily track your patient's core body temperature before, during and after surgery.
Lawsuit: patient suffered emotional distress listening to surgeon talk while he operated on her. The doctor allegedly spooked the patient when he spoke about night sweats and blurred vision in Spanish as part of a language proficiency exam.
Safety: Inside our near-miss wrong-site surgery. Lessons learned from almost implanting the wrong IOL.
Take a closer look at ophthalmic compounded drugs. Here's what you can do to ensure the sterility, potency and purity of the outsourced injections you use in your facility.
4 keys to prevent patient falls. Keep your patients from taking a tumble.
Chicago hospital sues leapfrog for defamation over low patient safety grade.
Recall: Midazolam syringes in blister packs contain syringes of ondansetron. Fresenius Kabi USA is recalling a lot of mislabeled prefilled syringes that were distributed nationwide.