Don't wait for large-scale disasters to put your emergency systems to the test
Briefings on Infection Control, July 1, 2008
This is an excerpt from a member only article. To read the article in its entirety, please login.
Imagine this scenario: a norovirus outbreak hits your hospital’s psychiatric unit, prompting an emergency evacuation of multiple units and taking weeks to clear the infection out of the facility.
Although you might not consider an event such as this an emergency situation on par with a pandemic flu outbreak or a flood, it certainly feels like a crisis for the facility involved, says Peggy Luebbert, MS, MT (ASCP), CIC, CHSP, owner of Healthcare Interventions, Inc., in Omaha, NE.
This is an excerpt from a member only article. To read the article in its entirety, please login.
Comments
0 comments on “Don't wait for large-scale disasters to put your emergency systems to the test ”
Related Products
-
Patient Safety Monitor
Patient Safety Monitor features a fully customizable, Web-based crosswalk that organizes state, CMS, and Joint Commission...
-
Patient Safety Monitor Insider
This e-mail newsletter provides healthcare professionals with the latest patient safety news, while offering useful...
Most Popular
- Articles
-
- Note from Hugh
- Note from the instructor: CMS clarifies payment amount to be applied to payment caps and manual review thresholds for outpatient therapy services provided by critical access hosptials
- Steps to comply with HIPAA 2.0: Revise your policies and procedures
- Recent Recovery Auditor activity
- The week in Medicare updates
- Steps to comply with HIPAA 2.0: Revise your policies and procedures
- Citing HIPAA, CVS to end prescription reminders via mail
- ACDIS/AHIMA brief provides guidance on query best practices
- Change your EMR to prepare for ICD-10
- 2014 Hospice Proposed Rule Released
- E-mailed
-
- Note from the instructor: CMS clarifies payment amount to be applied to payment caps and manual review thresholds for outpatient therapy services provided by critical access hosptials
- Q&A: Focused professional practice evaluation (FPPE)
- Change your EMR to prepare for ICD-10
- 2014 Hospice Proposed Rule Released
- Solidify processes to avoid HAC penalties
- Steps to comply with HIPAA 2.0: Revise your policies and procedures
- Citing HIPAA, CVS to end prescription reminders via mail
- 2014 IPPS Proposed Rule: CMS focuses on quality measures, inpatient status
- HCA initiative boosts flu shots among hospital workers
- HIPAA Q&A: Faxes to wrong number
- Searched