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Employment Opportunities

• Palos Community Hospital / Director of Quality / Palos Heights, IL / Posted: 5-10-12

• The Johns Hopkins Medicine Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality / Project Administrator / Baltimore, MD / Posted: 5-4-12

• The Johns Hopkins Hospital / Director, Quality Improvement / Baltimore, MD / Posted: 4-29-12

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March/April 2012

Features

• Smart Pump Workarounds: What's the Legal Risk?

• Applying Lessons Learned to Accelerated Adoption of BCMA

• Q & A with Diane Pinakiewicz: ‘Patient Safety Is Everyone’s Work’

• Noah’s Story: Please Listen

• We Can All Define Patient Safety… or Can We?

Columns

• Editor's Notebook: A New Look, Nickname, and Expanded Content

• AHRQ: Evidence-Based Methods and Tools Help Reduce Risk of Falls in Hospitals

• Health IT & Quality: Sensory Overload?

• Meaningful Use: The Next Stage for BCMA

• Human Factors: Design Principles for Manual Safety Systems

• ISMP: Building Patient Safety Skills: Common Pitfalls in Root Cause Analysis

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January/February 2012 | Digital Edition
• Making Sense of a Safety Reporting System’s Data with BI Software
• Forging a New Era of Accountable Care
• Safety in Numbers? Try Connectivity
• Perioperative Technology Improves SCIP Measurements in a Community Hospital
• Wander-Risk Patients: Best Practices for Hospitals and Assisted-Living Facilities
• Emergency Ultrasound at the Bedside: Not Just FAST

November/December 2011 | Digital Edition
• MRI Safety 10 Years Later
• The Stories Behind the Data
• Getting a Feel for Better Infection Control
• Telluride Interdisciplinary Patient Safety Roundtable: Medical Students’ Daily Narrative Reflections
• Patient Safety in Africa: A Culture Shift?

September/October 2011 | Digital Edition
• Medication Reconciliation in Daily Rounds in the NICU • State-wide Leadership Creates a Culture of Patient Safety in Rhode Island • Daily Check-In for Safety: From Best Practice to Common Practice
• Automated Pre-op Instructions in a Culture of Continuous Improvement • The Silent Treatment: Why Safety Tools and Checklists Aren’t Enough
• Patient Safety Summit in Emergency Care

July/August 2011 | Digital Edition
• Design for Reliability: Barcoded Medication Administration • In Pursuit of a Patient-Centered VA Prescription Label • Barcode Technology for Positive Patient Identification Prior to Transfusion • Applying the IHI Global Trigger Tool to Pediatric and Special Needs Populations • Forever Changed: Shared Learning in Patient Safety

May / June 2011 | Digital Edition
• Hand Hygiene Measurement and Education • Central Line Infections: Targeting Zero on an Oncology Unit • Revisiting the Perinatal Adverse Outcome Index? • Understanding Care Transitions as a Patient Safety Issue • Quest 2011: A Rallying Point for Patient Safety Advocates, a Commitment to Reshape Culture • The State of Compassionate Healthcare

March / April 2011 | Digital Edition
• Reducing Alarm Hazards: Selection and Implementation of Alarm Notification Systems
• Team Training in Obstetrics: Improving Care by Learning to Work Together
• Rapid Implementation of an Anesthesiology Information Management System
• Safer PCA Therapy
• Patient Mobilization

January / February 2011 | Digital Edition
• The Case for Regulating EMRs
• Standards for Medical Device Interoperability and Integration
• Interoperability and Actionable Intelligence: Future Requirements, Current Possibilities
• Critical Values Reporting: Making Day-to-Day Performance Count
• Open Source Health IT in the Psychiatric Care Environment

November / December 2010 | Digital Edition
• Building a PSO “Field of Dreams” for Emergency Medical Services
• Integrated Quality Measures Improve Patient Safety & Care
• Addressing Institutional Conflict of Interest to Promote Patient Safety
• VAP: It's the Little Things that Count
• Safety and Savings in Las Vegas: Nurses Have Decision Support at UMC
• The Leapfrog CPOE Evaluation Tool: One Academic Medical Center's Experience

September / October 2010 | Digital Edition
• Hospitals Collaborate to Prevent Wrong-Site Surgery
• Raising SBAR to a Higher Level: P.U.R.E. Conversations in Obstetrics
• Prospective Risk Management: Analysis, Evaluation, and Control
• Automated Informed Consent: Patients and Institutions Benefit Alike
• Inside the AHA’s Product Endorsement Process
• Using Telehealth to Improve Continuity of Care

July / August 2010 | Digital Edition
• Improving IV Catheter Care to Safeguard against Deadly Infections
• Look-Alike Drug Name Errors : Is Enhanced Lettering the Answer?
• Patient Safety Top of Mind for Medical Center and Design Team
• First, Protect the Patient from Harm: Applying Adult Learning Principles to Patient Safety
• Patient Safety on the Fly Technology and Teamwork

May / June 2010 | Digital Edition
• Medication Reconciliation: A Survey of Community Pharmacies and Emergency Departments
• Safety Huddles for a Culture of Safety
• Common Cause Analysis
• Post-Discharge Call Programs Improving Satisfaction and Safety

March / April 2010 | Digital Edition
• Distractions and Interruptions: Impact on Nursing
• Disclosure and Apology: What’s Missing?
• Florida Collaborative Tackles Hospital Readmissions
• Patient Engagement in Patient Safety: Barriers and Facilitators
• Be Prepared: Anticipating Pediatric Emergencies in Ambulatory Surgery
January / February 2010 | Digital Edition
• Five Essential Components of an Effective Stroke System
• Connectivity to Improve Patient Safety
• Online Connectivity
• Clinical Documentation: More than a Cumbersome Chore
• The Laboratory as a Service Line and Revenue Generator
November / December 2009 | Digital Edition
• How a Captive Insurer Uses Data and Incentives to Advance Patient Safety
• Rapid Response Teams and Continuous Quality Improvement
• MedWise: Preventing Medication Waste While Promoting Safe Administration
• Measuring and Improving Surgical Quality
• Advancing the Practice of Evidence-Based Medicine with Standardized Order Sets

September / October 2009 | Digital Edition
• Risk Management & Patient Safety:
       • Focus on the Patient and the Rest Falls into Place
       • Motivation Brings Us Together
       • Now Is Your Time
       • Nurses as Frontline Risk Managers
       • Risk Management’s Role in Infant Protection
• Unit Transformation Improves Safety for Mothers and Newborns
• Healthcare FMEA in the Veterans Health Administration
• Suicide Prevention Outside the Psychiatry Department: A Bundled Approach
• IT Integration in the OR

July / August 2009 | Digital Edition: • Medication Safety Technologies: What Is and Is Not Working
• Biomedical Device Integration: The Impact on Clinicians at the Point of Care
• Tests of Change: Simulated Design of Experiments in Healthcare Delivery
• EHR Supports Healthier Patients and a Healthier Bottom Line
May / June 2009 | Digital Edition: • Leadership Practices to Advance Patient Safety; • Patient Safety Organizations: Building a Safer Healthcare System; • Pilot Study: The Role of the Hospitalized Patient in Medication Administration Safety; • Continuous Pulse Oximetry Monitoring in the Inpatient Population

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