Mar 33 minAre Your Care Providers Washing Their Hands Long Enough to Prevent Bacterials and Viral Infections?Vitalacy’s electronic hand hygiene monitoring system is the only one on the market that can track hand wash duration, as well as compliance.
Feb 254 minThree Ways Electronic Hand Hygiene Monitoring Makes Antibiotic Stewardship More EffectiveAccording to CDC guidelines, C. diff infections are best prevented by hand hygiene using soap and water rather than hand sanitizers.
Jan 74 minWhy Effective Hand Hygiene Requires Soap and Water, As Well As Hand SanitizerComplying with hand hygiene protocols incorporating both soap and water and hand rubs is the best way to prevent hospital-acquired infection
Oct 8, 20194 minLeapfrog Group Adds Electronic Compliance Monitoring to Hand Hygiene Practice Standards Leapfrog Group added electronic monitoring to its hand hygiene practice standards and plans to score and publicly report by 2020.
Sep 24, 20193 minWhat Is Your Organization’s Approach to Patient Experience?The best experience for a patient is to receive effective treatment without harm, and then to go home feeling better.
Sep 3, 20193 minHow to Reduce Burnout and Medical Errors by Engaging Healthcare Workers in Patient SafetySafety cultures encourage the reporting of adverse events and unsafe conditions. A just and trusting culture can reduce nurse burnout.
Feb 11, 20194 minHow Public Policy Impacts the Way Hospitals Make Decisions By Sasha Viasasha Hospital administrators regularly address questions larger than efficiency and productivity when it comes to helping people live healthier ...
Dec 19, 20184 minThe Joint Commission’s National Patient Safety Goals for Improving Caregiver Communication By Lauretta Ihonor The Joint Commission’s annual National Patient Safety Goals articulate clear goals around which organizations can organize to increase the...
Jun 24, 20171 minIs Magnet Recognition Worth The Effort?It’s an honor and an accreditation that only 8% of US hospitals can boast: Magnet recognition. The American Nurses Credentialing Center’s (ANCC) Magnet Recog...
Jun 6, 20175 min“Employees Must Wash Hands”: How Non-Healthcare Industries Tackle Hand HygieneYou’ve heard the disheartening statistic: The hand hygiene compliance rate at US hospitals hovers around 40%. Not surprisingly, hospital-acquired infections ...
Mar 31, 20174 minHealthcare Lawsuits And Infection Control: An Expensive CollisionRead about 6 serious healthcare lawsuits involving infection control failures in U.S. hospitals: It won’t come as any surprise to infection control directors...
