As I woke up this morning to learn that another healthcare worker has been infected with the Ebola virus at the Dallas Hospital where […]
A Perspective Check….
Have you changed a life today? I know you may be thinking it sounds sappy, but your facility and team do amazing things every […]
Banding together…Looking for better ways to identify our patients.
I recently worked with a facility that used red allergy bands they had sharpie markered with each patient’s allergies. They get kudos for patient […]
Continued adventures in Gastro Reporting…Tips for Quality Reporting # 10
For those of you with GI as a specialty….I hope you found the previous article about # 9 helpful and are well on your way […]
Non Per Os…Latin for…does my patient understand our fasting orders?
Author: Leslie Mattson How many different interpretations of NPO have we heard from our patients? Some of my favorites are: “I was hungry so […]
The adventures of running a Surgery Center
It takes a certain kind of person to manage a surgery center. We have to be smart. We have to be great at multi-tasking, […]
Safety Data Sheets….who is keeping up the book, what needs to be included, and what happened to the “M”??
We have always called it the MSDS book. It typically lives somewhere in the facility where all can reference it, right? Did you know […]
Adventures in Gastro Quality Reporting # 9
Whether you are single specialty Gastroenterology or multispecialty with Gastro cases, you are among many of us who have 2 new measures to track.
The festering task list…
Doesn’t it feel like some days, it’s all about checking off the task list? That some things just get moved to the new list […]
Conscious Sedation…just a little Versed…
Conscious Sedation can be an appropriate way to provide comfort to a patient during certain procedures. Doing it safely means that you implement processes and […]