Maybe you've had this experience: You attend a workshop or conference to build your skill set, you pick up new strategies and tools, and you leave energized and excited to put them to use in your hospital or clinic. Yet when you return to work, you find it hard to get the ball rolling. Colleagues […]
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Patient Safety and Quality Champions Grow into Leaders
Posted by Melinda Sawyer | Organizational and Cultural Change, Preventing Patient HarmFor years, physician assistant Stephanie Figueroa has worked with our Emergency Department and the sickle cell care team to improve the treatment of patients with this disease who arrive with acute pain crisis. When beds were unavailable in the busy adult ED, these patients might spend hours in excruciating pain before our staff were able […]
Jul 2, 2015 3 comments