Relias

MARCH 16, 2022

How’s your organization doing in keeping your patients safe? Patient Safety Awareness Week is March 13-19, 2022, so it’s a good time to ask this question and make an honest assessment of where you stand. What is Patient Safety Awareness Week?

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Patient Safety Healthcare Communication Treatment Planning 83

Community Care

JULY 28, 2022

A social care staffing ‘crisis’ is putting patient safety at risk and undermining NHS efforts to clear backlogs and relieve record A&E pressures.

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Patient Safety Hospitals Government Mental Health 73

The Social Care Elf

JANUARY 17, 2022

Amelia Talbot looks at a recent qualitative study of patient and carer perspectives, which explores the reasons why some patients do not receive a psychosocial assessment in emergency departments following self-harm.

Self-harm 65

Self-harm Psychosocial Patient Safety Psychiatry 65

Relias

AUGUST 5, 2022

It is important to consider how to provide equitable resources for patients regardless of where they live and what resources they have so that everyone has an equal opportunity to achieve the best health outcomes. Industry Patient Experience Patient Safety Reducing Variation

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Patient Safety Healthcare Hospitals Communication 52

Relias

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

As leaders continue to focus on improving quality of care , improving the patient experience, and reducing readmissions, healthcare organizations find an even greater need for an effective onboarding process to ensure nurses are prepared to care for complex patient populations.

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Patient Safety Healthcare Clinic Communication 52

The Guardian

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The health service has hit “breaking point”, the leaders say, with record numbers of patients seeking care.

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Patient Safety Hospitals 113

Relias

JULY 14, 2022

Lora Sparkman, MHA, RN, BSN, Partner, Patient Safety and Quality at ReliasAlarmingly, the maternal mortality rate in the U.S. Lora Sparkman, MHA, RN, BSN, Partner, Patient Safety and Quality, Relias.

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Patient Safety Mental Health Healthcare Domestic Violence 52

Community Care

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Police have opened an investigation into abuse of patients at a mental health hospital uncovered by the BBC. Undercover reporter Alan Haslam, who spent three months at the centre, also found staff falsely recording that they had carried out required observations of patients.

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Hospitals Mental Health Patient Safety Clinic 94

Relias

MARCH 17, 2022

Healthcare organizations have a growing responsibility to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts not only for their employees, but also to better serve patients and their families. Also, hiring and retaining a workforce that is representative of the patient population served.

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Healthcare Diversity Patient Safety Communication 83

Relias

AUGUST 29, 2022

These cases could cause difficulties for both patients and providers as they navigate new legal realities brought by the Dobbs decision. As physicians, we are focused on protecting the health and lives of the patients for whom we provide care.

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Healthcare Medicaid Patient Safety Empathy 56

Relias

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Department of Health and Human Services emphasized monitoring staffing availability and needs frequently based on census and acuity, clinician-to-patient ratios, coverage within units, and staff on call. Healthcare organizations across the U.S.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Patient Safety Hospitals Recovery 52

Community Care

AUGUST 4, 2022

Social care staff shortages putting patient safety at risk, say NHS bosses. Adult social care is bereft of funding to tackle current pressures and longer-term reforms, MPs warn today.

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Hospital Discharges Government Patient Safety Hospitals 79

Learning Social Worker

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

For example, they could be used with patient/service-user participation representatives and/or carers to explore their experiences and what values-based behaviours they would like to see from professionals. How can you ‘speak loudly’ for the patients/service-users you work with? ·

Social Worker 60

Social Worker Mental Health Psychiatric Justice and Corrections 60

Society of Clinical Psychology

JANUARY 20, 2020

Similar to Skype or Facetime, TMH-V allows providers to deliver psychotherapy, medication management, or assessment to clinics without on-site mental health services or directly to patients’ homes. If providers do not support the use of TMH-V, patients will be unable to access TMH-V care.

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Psychology Telehealth Healthcare Patient Safety 52