Articles Tagged With: process
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Reducing Immediate-Use Steam Sterilization
Once called “flash sterilization,” the practice of quickly sterilizing a surgical instrument and returning it to the sterile field now is called immediate-use steam sterilization (IUSS). Regardless of the name, it generally has been been discouraged if used as a substitute for lack of sufficient supplies or to save time for a non-emergency reason.
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Watch for Quality Improvement Opportunities in Your Own Department
An important way to make sure one is operating at peak performance is to see that each project is as efficient as possible. Clinician buy-in often is key to success. Make sure everyone involved with quality improvement, including other departments, knows about the goals.
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Investigators Raise Alarm About Prevalence, Impact of Secondary Traumatic Stress in Emergency Nursing
If left unaddressed, secondary traumatic stress can negatively affect mood, relationships, job satisfaction, and patient care.
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Kaizen Method Can Improve Case Management
Efficiency and cost savings are worthy goals. Satisfaction also is relevant, whether applied to patients, frontline staff, managers, or chief executive officers. If your hospital workday is inefficient, satisfaction suffers at all levels. That is where the Kaizen method can help.
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Doctor Wins Defamation Suit Alleging Improper Peer Review Process
Responding to allegations of physician misbehavior is a challenge. A recent court case holds lessons for what can go wrong when a hospital does not follow best practices or even its own internal policies.
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Tips for Introducing a New Data System With the Fewest Problems
Any data system can affect a wide range of hospital operations, interacting with and possibly hindering the operation of other systems, as well as clinical and business operations. Those far-reaching effects can be underestimated, giving hospital leaders a false sense of the scope of the project they are undertaking. Successful implementation begins with hospital leaders identifying an accurate perspective on the work ahead.
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Following Lean and the 5S Philosophy Can Make Quality Improvement Sustainable
Surgery centers can put workflow processes in place that are sustainable — if leaders use the right tools.
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To Improve an ASC’s Workflow, Try Following These Principles
Using Lean principles, surgery centers can improve their workflow and increase efficiency. The key is to make workflow efficiency a priority from a managerial perspective.
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Rapid Assessment Zone Re-Engineers Patient Intake Process, Expedites Care
The approach has proved beneficial, enabling the ED to make improvements in several operational metrics without the need to take on additional staff.
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Program Improves Discharge Instructions, Reduces Same-Day Cancellations
After many patients requested better discharge and recovery instructions, one center created a laminated sheet with illustrations and easy-to-understand language.