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Make staff buy-in for quality improvement an easy sell
Rolling out a new quality improvement (QI) initiative by itself doesn't guarantee its successful...
Spies help raise hand-hygiene compliance in one hospital
Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston uses spies to monitor hand-hygiene compliance. The...
Stock up on N-95 respirators to prepare for flu pandemic
An analysis of influenza's potential to spread via air in addition to surface droplets supports the...

Sorting out confusion over Joint Commission lab accreditation
Do your RTs perform blood-gas workups or other tests at the bedside? Technically, a patient's room...
Learn the ins and outs of medical gas cylinder storage in your facility
The "RCM Talk" e-mail list is often abuzz with queries from one manager to another about how to...
Plan today for Joint Commission queries that could come
It's got a new name, new logo, and new Web site. The newly dubbed Joint Commission (formerly the...
Evidence against smoking to prevent COPD overwhelming despite new study
Editor's note: RCM contributing editor Judy Tietsort, RN RRT, FAARC, defined the concept of...

Reach out to uninsured patients with asthma care plans
The latest government statistics show that 46.3 million Americans don't have health insurance...
Sharpen RT rounding, procedures
A physician at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore came up with a great idea for improving rounds...
Hospital offers tough lessons in the wake of infant deaths
It's a difficult scenario: Two infants in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) die. The suspected...

Justify RT raises with collected data
The RT shortage continues, with 29,000 vacancies nationwide according to the Occupational Outlook...
Meet OSHA compliance in the home
If you're managing RTs for a home-care agency or at a hospital that sends RTs into patient's homes...
Reverse tracer methodology is a unique system to try
Texas hospital will do future mock tracers backward to more closely mirror survey experience...
Improve quality by improving your measurements
The recent push by national agencies to monitor and improve quality in healthcare should have...

RTs can spearhead the development of patient support groups
In addition to providing treatments to chronically ill patients with respiratory conditions such as...
Back up your arguments with research on relevant topics
You need help when you're trying to get your medical director or administrator on board with...
Flash sterilization criteria dissected in new guide
The Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) released a superset of device...
Ask Judy T: RTs can use the national COPD awareness campaign in their daily work
Editor's note: RCM contributing editor Judy Tietsort, RN, RRT, FAARC, defined the concept of...

RTs key to Medical Reserve Corps
The U.S. Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) is a grassroots movement of 100,000 volunteers spread among...
Send your AE-Cs out into the world
Consider the following example: A group of RTs on your staff obtains their certified asthma...
Busted: How staff RTs should handle suspected illegal drugs found on patients
What do you tell your RTs to do when they find a patient in possession of pot or something that...

RTs can take steps to improve patient communication, patient care
Put yourself in the typical respiratory patient's shoes. According to U.S. Department of Education...
RC manager's cheat sheet for how to deliver better presentations
Presentations: They're not something in which many respiratory care (RC) managers receive a lot of...
JCAHO surveyors can show up on any given workday
Every Monday Karen Holland, RN, BSN, religiously checked the JCAHO extranet site to see whether it...

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