Alarm hazards as patient safety concern
Year after year, we’ve seen “alarm fatigue” ranked high on the ECRI Institute annual list of Top Ten Health Technology… read more
Social Connectedness & Asynchronous Secure Messaging
An Unexpected Benefit Think about what happens to most of you at work – you spend a portion of your… read more
Data Integrity as a Patient Safety Concern
In its two most recent annual lists of Top Ten Health Technology Hazards, the ECRI Institute pegged “data integrity errors… read more
Achieving Mobile Care Orchestration: How one hospital uses smartphones
Recently, I was privileged to participate in a webinar given by our development partner, Parkview Medical Center (Pueblo, CO). The… read more
4 Ways Clinical Mobility Protects Patients at your Hospital
At healthcare industry events, most of the discussions I hear typically concentrate on care quality performance and cost reduction. While… read more
Compassionate Care Part 2: Autonomy in the Acute Care Environment
This is my second blog on Press Ganey’s Compassionate Care™ model. In the last installment, I reflected on the shackles that… read more
Patient Centered Care: Is It Really That New?
Recently I gave a presentation and asked the audience – hasn’t the care we have provided always been patient centered?… read more
A Conversation on Cognitive Nursing Workload and Leveraging Technology
Nurses’ cognitive workload is a point of concern for nurse informaticist Cheryl Parker, PhD, RN-BC, FHIMSS. Nursing Show host Jamie… read more
Compassionate Care Part 1: Unlocking the Shackles of the Computer
I was recently re-reading Press Ganey’s Compassionate Connected Care™ model1. The concepts truly resonated with my experiences of providing direct nursing… read more
Unsecured Texting – The Monster Underneath the Bed
I think we can all admit that unsecured healthcare texting between clinicians is happening despite prohibitions etc. Ah, yes, Prohibition…forbid… read more