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Health Care Quality & Safety

Information related to health care quality and safety for all health care professions



Can Exoskeletons Reduce Musculoskeletal Disorders in Healthcare Workers?

Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs) remain a major concern for workers in the healthcare industry.

Can Exoskeletons Reduce Musculoskeletal Disorders in Healthcare Workers?

Certified professional midwives will soon need a license to practice in Michigan

Certified professional midwives will soon require a license to practice in Michigan under new administrative rules set to go into effect next month, following a nearly decade-long push from industry professionals.

Certified professional midwives will soon need a license to practice in Michigan


Continuing Education (CE) Activity on Risk Reduction for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and Other Sleep-Related Causes of Infant Death: Curriculum for Nurses

Nurses are among the most trusted advisors and role models for families, especially on the subject of infant health and sleep safety.
Continuing Education (CE) Activity on Risk Reduction for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and Other Sleep-Related Causes of Infant Death: Curriculum for Nurses

Discharge Planning Proposed Rule Focuses on Patient Preferences

Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed to revise the discharge planning requirements that hospitals, including long-term care hospitals and inpatient rehabilitation facilities, critical access hospitals, and home health agencies, must meet in order to participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
Discharge Planning Proposed Rule Focuses on Patient Preferences

Effect of an Enhanced Medical Home on Serious Illness and Cost of Care Among High-Risk Children With Chronic Illness - A Randomized Clinical Trial

Patient-centered medical homes have not been shown to reduce adverse outcomes or costs in adults or children with chronic illness. A randomized clinical trial assesses whether an enhanced medical home providing comprehensive care prevents serious illness (death, intensive care unit [ICU] admission, or hospital stay >7 days) and/or reduces costs among children with chronic illness.
Effect of an Enhanced Medical Home on Serious Illness and Cost of Care Among High-Risk Children With Chronic Illness - A Randomized Clinical Trial

Explore your Treatment Options - It's Your Health.

Explore your Treatment Options - It's Your Health.

Federal watchdog: Nearly half of Medicare patients in long-term-care hospitals experienced harm

Nearly half of Medicare patients in long-term care facilities have experienced some type of harm as the result of their care, endangering their health and increasing Medicare costs, according to a report from a government watchdog.

Federal watchdog: Nearly half of Medicare patients in long-term-care hospitals experienced harm

Guide to Patient and Family Engagement in Hospital Quality and Safety

Guide to Patient and Family Engagement in Hospital Quality and Safety
Guide to Patient and Family Engagement in Hospital Quality and Safety


How a certified wound care nurse improves outcomes, reduces costs

Having a certified wound care nurse on staff makes a positive difference for both patient care and the bottom line.
How a certified wound care nurse improves outcomes, reduces costs

JCAHO 2016 National Patient Safety Goals

JCAHO 2016 National Patient Safety Goals
JCAHO 2016 National Patient Safety Goals


Keep Them STEADI: Preventing Older Adult Falls in Hospital-Based Settings

CDC created the evidence-based Stopping Elderly Accidents, Deaths, and Injuries initiative to help healthcare providers incorporate fall prevention into routine care for older adults.

Keep Them STEADI: Preventing Older Adult Falls in Hospital-Based Settings

Medicare Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program

To improve care and lower costs, Medicare imposes a financial penalty on hospitals with excess readmissions.
Medicare Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program

MHA Keystone Center

Patient Quality and Safety Improvement Practices
MHA Keystone Center

NIOSH Training for Nurses on Shift Work and Long Work Hours

The purpose of this online training program is to educate nurses and their managers about the health and safety risks associated with shift work, long work hours, and related workplace fatigue issues and relay strategies in the workplace and in the nurse's personal life to reduce these risks.
NIOSH Training for Nurses on Shift Work and Long Work Hours


Nurses Learning to Embrace Their Role in Health Technology

Nurses Learning to Embrace Their Role in Health Technology

Nurse Staffing

Registered nurses have long acknowledged and continue to emphasize that staffing issues are an ongoing concern, one that influences the safety of both the patient and the nurse.

Nurse Staffing

Nursing's Expertise Gap

Long-held fears about a coming nursing shortage have shifted from a focus on numbers to a concern about experience.

Nursing's Expertise Gap


QSEN

Quality and Safety in Nursing Education
QSEN

Quad Council Coalition Releases 2018 Community/Public Health Nursing Competencies

In 2018, the QCC updated its C/PHN Competencies.

Quad Council Coalition Releases 2018 Community/Public Health Nursing Competencies

Safer Together: A National Action Plan to Advance Patient Safety

The plan illuminates the collective insights of the 27 member organizations of the National Steering Committee for Patient Safety, convened in 2018 by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and committed to achieving safer care and reducing harm to patients and caregivers.

Safer Together: A National Action Plan to Advance Patient Safety

Short-Staffed Nursing Homes See Drop In Medicare Ratings

The federal government accelerated its crackdown on nursing homes that go days without a registered nurse by downgrading the rankings of a tenth of the nation’s homes on Medicare’s consumer website, new records show.

Short-Staffed Nursing Homes See Drop In Medicare Ratings

Supplement Issue: Fostering Engagement and Independence: Opportunities and Challenges for an Aging Society

Health Education & Behavior's Oct. 2014 supplement, "Fostering Engagement and Independence: Opportunities and Challenges for an Aging Society," is devoted to the latest healthy aging research and practice. The supplement contains peer-reviewed articles that discuss promising research advances and innovative behavioral and psychosocial approaches to improving the health and well-being of older adults. The articles address strategies for promoting mobility and physical activity, community-based healthy aging efforts and models, technology use, and an analysis of health disparities in aging minority populations. See additional healthy aging resources on ASTHO's 2015 President's Challenge, "Healthy Aging: Living Longer Better" website.
Supplement Issue: Fostering Engagement and Independence: Opportunities and Challenges for an Aging Society

Synergy Between Nurses And Automation Could Be Key To Finding Sepsis Early

A quarter of a million Americans die every year from sepsis, which is the body's reaction to overwhelming infection.
Synergy Between Nurses And Automation Could Be Key To Finding Sepsis Early

Technology underscores value of nursing code of ethics

In a profession continually ranked above all others for honesty and ethics, ongoing discussions about delivering quality care with strong integrity and principles is essential.

Technology underscores value of nursing code of ethics

The CMS Equity Plan for Improving Quality in Medicare

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Equity Plan for Improving Quality in Medicare (CMS Equity Plan for Medicare) provides an action-oriented, results-driven approach for advancing health equity by improving the quality of care provided to minority and other underserved Medicare beneficiaries.

The CMS Equity Plan for Improving Quality in Medicare

The Reality of the Nursing Crisis

According to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, one out of five nurses will hand in their resignation one year after getting their license, and research has found that 36% of nurses are unable to care for their patients effectively because of their increasing workloads.

The Reality of the Nursing Crisis

Top 10 Health Tech Hazards for 2019

The safe use of health technology—from simple devices to complex information systems—requires identifying possible sources of danger or difficulty with those technologies and taking steps to minimize the likelihood that adverse events will occur.

Top 10 Health Tech Hazards for 2019