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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 ...

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

Colds, flu, and other respiratory illnesses are more common in colder months. People are indoors more often, allowing ...

With the use of caustic and other dangerous chemicals in healthcare facilities, it's imperative your staff can readily ...

Have you ever opened your medication refrigerators and looked at what is actually in them?  Recently I was ...

Many organizations continue to struggle with the primary source verification requirements.  Primary Source Verification(PSV) is required for any ...

Medical equipment and devices that provide measurement data can be critical in patient care.  This includes the measurement ...

While surveying across the country, we frequently see the same issues over and over again.  Despite educating the ...

During Medical Staff audits, it is not unusual to have National Practitioner Data Bank queries missing in the ...

The use of specialized carts in healthcare provides readily accessible supplies and equipment for addressing specific patient conditions ...