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Keep Your Skills Current: Our Medication Aide Update Class

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As a Medication Aide, you play a crucial role in ensuring that residents and patients receive the right medications safely and effectively. Staying up-to-date with the latest practices, regulations, and medication management techniques is essential to providing the highest quality of care.

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5 Risk Control Considerations as Nurse Practitioners’ Scope of Practice Expands

Minority Nurse

Understanding this legal landscape is crucial for NPs to effectively adjust their patient safety and risk control practices to navigate potential pitfalls. If a patient suffers adverse outcomes and lacks documented informed consent, NPs could face liability claims for failing to provide adequate information.

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What is the Quadruple Aim of healthcare?

Mobius MD

In 2019, healthcare leaders declared physician burnout a public health crisis , making connections between provider wellbeing, patient safety, and the quality of care. Popular solutions include improving documentation efficiency (a pain point for physicians) and care team coordination.

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Phlebotomy Duties In Hospital

Phlebotomy Careers

Venipuncture and Capillary Blood Collection: Perform blood draws using sterile techniques, ensuring minimal discomfort for ‌the patient. Proper Labeling and Documentation: Label samples accurately immediately after‍ collection and record all⁣ necessary details in hospital facts⁣ systems.

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The 10-year plan – By Paula the PM

Practice Index

We’re yet another document into the NHS plan. So far, we’ve had the NHS Long-Term Plan, the Darzi report, the Patient Safety Strategy, the Long-Term Workforce Plan, amongst others. Having read the plan, there isn’t a massive amount of detail on what this looks like. Or is this appointment in your pocket via AI?

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How Transformational Leadership Improves Patient Safety

Relias

These attributes (and others) can translate to greater improvements in patient safety. Transformational leadership is especially effective in health care because it emphasizes teamwork and everyone’s ability to step up as a leader when needed. What is transformational leadership?

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National Patient Safety Goals Depend on Good Communication

Relias

Patient Safety Awareness Week, sponsored by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement , is the perfect time to review the Joint Commission’s National Patient Safety Goals. For 2023, its list of patient safety goals for hospitals includes the following: Identify patients correctly.