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Pain medication, when properly ordered, administered and monitored for effectiveness, can provide patients with relief of their suffering ...

Often patients are placed on defined precautions when a risk has been identified.  This includes fall, Pressure Injury, ...

Our consulting team has noticed this year that we are finding increasing issues with testing strips.  These strips ...

Recently the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (IMSP) released their annual update to the High Alert Medication Lists ...

Borescopes are visual inspection tools used on instruments that have a lumen that is hard to access because ...

Water and ice dispensers are convenient sources of fluids for patients and are frequently found in hospital nutrition ...

Instrument insulator testers are commonly used on laparoscopic instrumentation and other surgical instruments (bi-polar instruments) that have an ...

Following medical orders for pain medication is essential to support effective pain control.  If pain medications are not ...

Ensuring that transplantable tissues are safely managed is critical for patient safety.  This includes maintaining acceptable storage conditions, ...

Slush, sleet, black ice, and snow-every winter, these weather phenomena contribute to slips, trips, and falls. For the ...

The pace of hospital life tends to stay continuously busy, with patient equipment such as wheelchairs and stretchers ...

As we move into the latter part of the year, we look forward to the Holiday season.  Many ...