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1. Ensuring Correct Surgery. | PSNet
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   May 24, 2017 - This pamphlet informs consumers on steps both patients and clinicians should take prior to surgery to ensure

2. More Effort Is Needed To Ensure Patients Understand Doctors' Instructions (pdf file)
   www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/nhqrdr/dataspotlight-health-literacy.pdf
   March 01, 2019 - More Effort Is Needed To Ensure Patients Understand Doctors' Instructions 1 MORE EFFORT IS NEEDED … TO ENSURE PATIENTS UNDERSTAND DOCTORS’ INSTRUCTIONS Did you know? … Federal programs are working to ensure that all Americans always receive health-literate care, including

3. The Role of the FDA in Ensuring Device Safety | PSNet
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   May 28, 2020 - For this perspective, we will discuss the FDA’s ability to ensure the safety of medical devices. … Not only does the agency have to ensure they are applying efficient and effective methods for evaluating … For the FDA, these modifications raise the question of how to ensure the long-term safety and effectiveness … approved is that some FDA questions regarding the safety of a device require post-approval studies to ensure … As we are asked to evaluate new science and new technologies, we are always trying ensure that we are

4. Ensuring medication reconciliation. | PSNet
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   December 19, 2012 - Newspaper/Magazine Article Ensuring medication reconciliation. Citation Text: Ensuring medication reconciliation. Georgia K, Kinney K, Pace A, Helton K. Patient Saf Qual Healthc. November / December 2007. Copy Citation Save Save to your library Print …

5. How Jurisdictions Can Ensure COVID-19 Vaccine Access for Staff and Residents in Long-term Care Settings | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   September 01, 2021 - How Jurisdictions Can Ensure COVID-19 Vaccine Access for Staff and Residents in Long-term Care Settings … Resource:   How Jurisdictions Can Ensure COVID-19 Vaccine Access for Staff and Residents in

6. A considerative checklist to ensure safe daily patient review. | PSNet
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   June 08, 2011 - Commentary A considerative checklist to ensure safe daily patient review. … A Considerative Checklist to ensure safe daily patient review. … This commentary describes a checklist to help ensure comprehensive information gathering by medical … A Considerative Checklist to ensure safe daily patient review.

7. Registered nurses' efforts to ensure safety for home-dwelling older patients. | PSNet
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   July 19, 2019 - Study Registered nurses' efforts to ensure safety for home-dwelling older patients … Registered nurses' efforts to ensure safety for home‐dwelling older patients. … This qualitative study with 13 registered nurses in Sweden explored how nurses ensure safe home health … Registered nurses' efforts to ensure safety for home‐dwelling older patients.

8. For Hospice Care, a Pressing Need to Ensure Quality for Patients and Families | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   December 01, 2022 - AHRQ Views: Blog posts from AHRQ leaders For Hospice Care, a Pressing Need to Ensure Quality for … We need to understand patient values for end-of-life care and ensure the quality of care they receive

9. Can we ensure medication safety with the use of speech recognition software? | PSNet
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   July 10, 2024 - Newspaper/Magazine Article Can we ensure medication safety with the use of speech … Citation Text: Can we ensure medication safety with the use of speech recognition software? … Linkedin Copy URL Cite Citation Citation Text: Can we ensure

10. Physician Champion Checklist | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2017 - Ensure physicians are educated about project goals and progress. … Ensure your intensive care unit (ICU) has an overarching protocolized approach to daily ICU patient management … Ensure your ICU has a protocolized approach for the appropriate use of noninvasive ventilation. … Ensure your ICU has a protocolized approach for using subglottic secretion drainage endotracheal tubes … Ensure infection control reports of ventilator-associated event (VAE) rates are reviewed with unit staff

11. Actions Needed to Address Employee Misconduct Process and Ensure Accountability. | PSNet
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    July 11, 2018 - Book/Report Actions Needed to Address Employee Misconduct Process and Ensure Accountability … Citation Text: Actions Needed to Address Employee Misconduct Process and Ensure Accountability. … Both organizational and individual accountability are required to ensure safe care. … ensuring whistle-blowers are treated fairly and assigning responsibilities across the hierarchy to ensure … Citation Citation Text: Actions Needed to Address Employee Misconduct Process and Ensure

12. Appendix G. Indwelling Urinary Catheter Insertion Checklist | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2017 - for Use Purpose Use of a standardized indwelling urinary catheter (IUC) insertion checklist can ensure … Ensure privacy and good lighting.     5. … Ensure all supplies are conveniently positioned.     2. … Prepare the antiseptic solution; ensure the resident is not allergic to iodine. … Ensure the tubing in not kinked and the drainage bag is below the level of the bladder.

13. 'Trust but verify'—five approaches to ensure safe medical apps. | PSNet
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    September 27, 2023 - Commentary 'Trust but verify'—five approaches to ensure safe medical apps. … 'Trust but verify'--five approaches to ensure safe medical apps. … 'Trust but verify'--five approaches to ensure safe medical apps.

14. Teaching nurses to make clinical judgments that ensure patient safety. | PSNet
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    August 17, 2022 - Commentary Teaching nurses to make clinical judgments that ensure patient safety. … Teaching Nurses to Make Clinical Judgments That Ensure Patient Safety. … Teaching Nurses to Make Clinical Judgments That Ensure Patient Safety.

15. Investigating for improvement? Five strategies to ensure national patient safety investigations improve patient safety. | PSNet
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    February 28, 2024 - Five strategies to ensure national patient safety investigations improve patient safety. … Five strategies to ensure national patient safety investigations improve patient safety. … This commentary recommends five strategies to ensure investigations inform patient safety improvement … Five strategies to ensure national patient safety investigations improve patient safety.

16. At Bellevue, a desperate fight to ensure the patients' safety. | PSNet
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    September 24, 2014 - Newspaper/Magazine Article At Bellevue, a desperate fight to ensure the patients' … Citation Text: At Bellevue, a desperate fight to ensure the patients' safety. … Cite Citation Citation Text: At Bellevue, a desperate fight to ensure

17. Managing a CAHPS Survey Project | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    May 01, 2022 - Survey Project By developing a comprehensive project management strategy early on, you can ensure … This communication and coordination will ensure that the leaders of each sub-team consult with and inform … Ways to encourage good communication include the following: Ensure some overlap of membership in … you will need to monitor their progress, work with them to overcome any setbacks they encounter, and ensure … using a vendor to produce online or printed reports, your job is to oversee the vendor's work and to ensure

18. 036-Ss-Nursing-Practice-Guide (doc file)
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    April 01, 2025 - Services For: Cardiac, Hip and Knee Joint Replacement, and Spinal Fusion Surgeries Use this guide to help ensure … patient handouts for decolonization and patient/provider talking points · Follow up with patient to ensure … provided by facility, document receipt of CHG product by patient · Document followup with patient to ensure … provided to or used by patient · Document CHG bathing in pre-op if patient did not bathe at home · Ensure … they understand nasal product instructions · Ensure escalation of standard pathway is in place in the

19. Recommendations to ensure safety of AI in real-world clinical care. | PSNet
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    December 06, 2023 - Commentary Recommendations to ensure safety of AI in real-world clinical care. … Recommendations to ensure safety of AI in real-world clinical care. … Recommendations to ensure safety of AI in real-world clinical care.

20. Appendix H. Indwelling Urinary Catheter Maintenance Checklist | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/hai/quality/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/resources/tools/prevent/maintenance-checklist.html
    March 01, 2017 - for Use Purpose Use of a standardized indwelling urinary catheter (IUC) maintenance checklist can ensure … Ensure the order for the catheter and balloon size matches the inserted IUC.     2. … Ensure the IUC is inserted into the device.     4. … Ensure the tubing does not go in and out of the urethra during cleaning.     10. … Ensure that the drainage bag is secured below the level of the bladder at all times and not resting on