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What The Friendly Skies Can Teach Us About Patient Safety

If you fly, you recognize these words… “Ladies and Gentlemen we would appreciate your attention as we explain the safety features of this aircraft.” The approach varies slightly by airline but basic information about air turbulence and the importance of wearing your seat belts, the location of emergency exits, and how to use oxygen masks is spelled out in simple language. For those of us who fly often this safety briefing seems humdrum, and can lead us to a complacent attitude about the role we might assume if there is an in-flight emergency. It could be a fatal mistake if we have not … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Patient Engagement, Patient Safety Tagged With: catheter infections, healthcare-associated infection, infection prevention, medication errors, outcome improvement, patient engagment, patient safety

Clinicians as Pathfinders….Lessons from the Past

Pathfinders are urgently needed!  Flashback to 1914 and glimpse a slice of history that brings perspective to clinical leadership today. Let’s see what we can take away from a quick journey in time. Consider the Landscape One hundred years ago, it was early in the Great War, a time when everyone believed the war would be short-lived, and they would be returning to a world as they knew it. The brutal reality began to unfold daily, until more than five million people died. By the war’s end, 13 million people had been wounded. Despite the incomprehensible agony and chaos of WWI, there were … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Patient Safety, Work Environment Tagged With: healthcare-associated infection, infection prevention, medication errors, patient care, patient safety

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Choosing Wisely: Are We Capable as a Nation?

There is a campaign underway to help consumers understand the risks and benefits of selected procedures commonly used in care. The Choosing Wisely campaign is a collaboration of more than 70 … Continue reading article...

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