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RTN1306_A_Highlights
State & Psychiatric Hospital Compliance Collaborative’s Reading Tips Newsletter (RTN) June 2013, Volume 7, Issue 6 ••WHAT’S NEW for June Fresh SPHCC Guests & Visitors – We welcome you to this Highlights section of our newsletter. As you will see below, it contains a listing of our best reading recommendations and some downloadable material for…
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RTN1306_B1_Patient Flow (LD.04.03.11)
Recommended Readings, Tips & Pearls •PR: – The “Patient Flow Standard” and the 4-Hour Recommendation[®] [Ref: GB, LDR, MDx, RNx] Perspectives, June 2013, Pg 1, Vol 33, #6 Effective January 1, 2014, there will be two enhancements to the requirements for managing patient flow as called for in LD.04.03.11. Although these standards focus primarily on the…
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RTN1306_B2_SE Reporting
• PR: – Clarifying Misconceptions About Sentinel Event Reporting [Pearl: JCSC, Mdx, PI, LDR] Perspectives June 2013, Pg 9, Vol 33, #6 This article provides general encouragement for organizations to self-report sentinel events. It raises several examples of misconceptions that may hinder such reporting unnecessarily. One of these would relate to the statement ‘the patient came…