**WHAT’S NEW for March 2014

• Article of the Month

• Perspectives on Patient Safety: Building Physician Leadership 
  [The Source, March 2014, Vol 12, #3, Pg 13 [Recommended for: GB, LDR, MD] Pressure is building in the field of medicine, including psychiatry, to achieve greater quality, safety and reliability… but at lower cost. Physicians will be a critical factor in achieving this goal. This white paper outlines the case for developing physician leaders and the competencies they will need.  
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• Members & Guests: Question of the Quarter (ends 3/30)
  
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**RECOMMENDED READING – Mbrs

1. PR: TJC Simplifies Guest Access to Extranet Ftxt [REF: JCSC]
2. TS: The State of Patient Safety: with Saul Weingart, MD, PhD Ftxt [REF: GB, LDR, PI]
3. TS: Building Physician Leadership Ftxt [REF: LDR, MD]
4. EC: Test Your Standards IQ  Ftxt [Pearl: EOC, CJCP]
   
5. EC: Progressing further into EC.02.03.05: Eps 5/6 Ftxt [REF: EOC]
6. EC: How to safely manage hazardous drugs Ftxt [REF: EOC, P&T, RN]
7. JO: Prepub–Revised Requirements for the EC Chapter Ftxt [REF: CMS, EOC]

**USEFUL LINKS & DOWNLOADS – Mbrs/Gsts

• TJC: Latest Hospital Medical Record Statistics Form (3/11/14)
• TJC: Prepublication – Revised Requirements for the EC Chapter
• CMS: S&C: 14-12–Hospital Emergency Preparedness Checklist [Review/Mbrs]
• CMS: S&C: 14-07–Hospital Equipment Maintenance Requirements  [Review/Mbrs]
• AHA: Physician Leadership Education Report White Paper (1/22/14)
• TJC: BHC News – Issue One 2014  (Featuring the RPI Corner)
• Latest TJC Blogs: Physician Leader Monthly – Leadership Blog 

**SupporTips – Mbrs/Gsts

• S-Tip#15: Question of the Quarter/Suggestion Box – To improve the quality of this newsletter and our online support of members, we need input from our guest readers and members.  Each quarter there will be a (very) short poll/questionnaire.  Please click on the link! We promise it will take less than a minute to complete. Also, if you have a few seconds left over for any other idea, comment, criticism or commendation you would like to share, please place it in our Suggestion Box.  We want to hear from (and respond to) you. Thx!

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