Latest Patientsafety Podcast Episodes
Medication Safety at Summer Camps
Smart Healthcare Safety from ECRI - May 23, 2024 13:39 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsAs the school year is winding down, children across the nation are getting ready to attend summer camps. Many of them will need prescription and over-the-counter medications while they’re at camp, away from their parents and primary care providers. If camps aren’t ready to manage the responsibil...
The Myth of the Five Rights for Safe Medication Administration
Smart Healthcare Safety from ECRI - September 15, 2023 09:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsThe idea of the “five rights” for medication safety has been taught in nursing school since at least World War II, used as a memory tool that nurses should rely on to administer medications safely. Even though no one can identify where the five rights came from, the idea is embedded in medicatio...
Managing the Supply Chain in Non-Acute Care Settings
Smart Healthcare Safety from ECRI - August 15, 2023 10:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsIn this episode, Tim Gibson, Senior Manager, Functional Equivalents, and Andy Poole, Associate Director, Strategy and Innovation, ECRI, describe strategies for enhancing the supply management process in non-acute organizations like nursing homes, ambulatory surgery centers, and physician practic...
Addressing Workplace Violence in Healthcare
Smart Healthcare Safety from ECRI - July 11, 2023 10:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsIn the latest episode of our podcast, we speak to Karen Garvey, Vice President, Safety and Clinical Risk Management, and J.D. Buchert, Workplace Safety Manager, Parkland Health (Dallas, Texas). They describe their data-driven approach to identifying and combatting workplace violence, including t...
A Day in the Life of an ENT Resident
Endoscopy Insights - December 09, 2022 17:39 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsDr. Wesley Stepp is a resident at the University of North Carolina’s Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. UNC is a national leader in training the next generation of ear, nose and throat surgeons and Dr. Stepp brings an interesting perspective to this kind of work. Not just beca...
Comparing Single-Use and Reusable Bronchoscopes for Interventional Pulmonology
Endoscopy Insights - November 03, 2022 12:20 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe conventional wisdom in interventional pulmonology has long been that reusable bronchoscopes perform better than their single-use counterparts, but new research counters that thinking. A recent study, part of a poster presentation at the World Congress for Bronchology and Interventional Pu...
Chat with Matt: The Importance of Hemodilution in Infusion Therapy
INS Infusion Room - October 28, 2022 23:46 - 30 minutesHost: Dawn Berndt, DNP, RN, CRNI® - Director of Publications and Educational Design Guest: Matt Gibson, RN, CRNI©, VA-BC, CPUI Listen in on this chat with Matt Gibson as he talks about the importance of hemodilution and measures that can be taken to improve successful completion of therap...
Navigating Career Paths and Challenges in Flexible Endoscopy
Endoscopy Insights - October 20, 2022 13:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsDr. Marybeth Spanarkel describes GI endoscopy as a labor of love. You can hear the passion in her voice when she talks about performing a procedure and the gratification that comes from getting an immediate medical answer to the clinical question that’s being asked. Spanarkel, however, suffere...
Right Pocket, Left Pocket: Achieving Buy-In for Single-Use
Endoscopy Insights - October 06, 2022 13:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsHealthcare staff shortages, while not new, have spawned a world today where it can take five hours to get an X-ray for a dislocated elbow and another two to get pain medication for the injury. Ambulances sometimes wait eight hours to drop off a patient, and nurses work 12- to 16-hour shifts, wit...
Innovative Staffing Models to Overcome Nursing Shortage
Smart Healthcare Safety from ECRI - September 15, 2022 16:05 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsIn this episode, we talk with nurse leaders from Allegheny Health Network (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) about their innovative blended staffing model that encourages LPNs to return to acute care, along with other programs to help bolster staffing, like incentivizing nurses who have left the workfor...
Leading with Value to the Patient
Endoscopy Insights - September 15, 2022 11:43 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsMedical device suppliers and group purchasing organizations are teaming to bring new healthcare innovations such as single-use endoscopes to hospitals and health systems. By creating specific single-use endoscope categories for their members, these healthcare improvement companies can help acc...
Calculating the Total Cost of Care
Endoscopy Insights - September 01, 2022 12:38 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsTransitioning from reusable to single-use endoscopes has obvious infection control benefits and even provides workflow and efficiency advantages — but the financial implications are usually one of the biggest hurdles to implementation. That’s why it’s important to explore all the variables tha...
How Effective is Flexible Ureteroscope Reprocessing?
Endoscopy Insights - August 18, 2022 15:33 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWhen the U.S. Food and Drug Administration released a letter to healthcare providers in April 2021 announcing its investigation into numerous medical device reports involving reprocessed urological endoscopes, Dr. Seth Bechis and his colleagues set out to learn more about reprocessing and its ef...
Fighting Healthcare Disparities | Outreach to those Experiencing Homelessness
Smart Healthcare Safety from ECRI - August 11, 2022 15:15 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsProviding equitable care for a diverse population requires providers to meet patients where they are—including if they are experiencing homelessness. In this episode, Dr. Jose Ramos, of Pomona Valley Health Centers, describes his team’s outreach efforts to homeless individuals, how those efforts...
Becoming a Next-Gen Urologist
Endoscopy Insights - August 04, 2022 15:21 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsMatthew Katz was at Weill Cornell Medicine when a chance digital encounter ended up steering him into urology. “If you had asked me what a urologist did before medical school I probably wouldn’t have been able to answer the question,” he told me self-deprecatingly when we chatted at the Americ...
Mentoring and Empowering Women in Endoscopy, Part 2
Endoscopy Insights - July 21, 2022 12:38 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsEmpowering women in endoscopy is something Dr. Arthi Sanjeevi is clearly passionate about. It shows in her work mentoring young gastroenterologists and in the way she tackles gender-related challenges in the field. In this conversation, Dr. Sanjeevi discusses what’s missing when it comes to em...
Fighting Healthcare Disparities | Utilizing Shared Decision-Making
Smart Healthcare Safety from ECRI - July 14, 2022 14:57 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsIn this episode, our guest, Emily Transue, MD, MHA, FACP, Medical Director for the Washington State Health Care Authority (HCA), discusses how shared decision-making can be more than a tool to engage patients in their care, and can also help in the fight against care inequities and disparities.
Mentoring and Empowering Women in Endoscopy
Endoscopy Insights - July 07, 2022 12:07 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsDr. Arthi Sanjeevi remembers a fellowship during her residency, when a mentor played a key role in helping guide her career path. Seeing her passion for therapeutic endoscopy — and her ability to perform the complex procedures — he gave Sanjeevi the push she needed. Dr. Sanjeevi does the same ...
Great Retirement Leading to Continued Workforce Shortages
Smart Healthcare Safety from ECRI - June 21, 2022 13:22 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsIn this episode, we talk with our guest, Tom McCormick, Vice President, Patient Accounting, at Penn Medicine, about adjusting staffing patterns in the patient accounting department during the COVID-19 pandemic. He shares his perspective on how staff roles changed, how the shift to remote work ha...
Nurse Retirement Leading to Continued Workforce Shortages
Smart Healthcare Safety from ECRI - June 21, 2022 13:22 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsIn this episode, we talk with our guest, Tom McCormick, Vice President, Patient Accounting, at Penn Medicine, about adjusting staffing patterns in the patient accounting department during the COVID-19 pandemic. He shares his perspective on how staff roles changed, how the shift to remote work ha...
Fighting Healthcare Disparities | Equitable and Accessible Healthcare for All
Smart Healthcare Safety from ECRI - June 10, 2022 18:59 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsIn this episode, our guests discuss their data-driven approach to identify and combat disparities and realize their vision of creating a Dallas County with equitable, accessible healthcare for all. Our first guest, Brett Moran, MD, is from Parkland Health & Hospital System, one of the country’s ...
The State of Bladder Cancer Awareness and Research
Endoscopy Insights - June 02, 2022 13:01 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsMay was Bladder Cancer Awareness Month, so we wanted to share a conversation with Dr. Yair Lotan on the state of bladder cancer awareness and research, his work with the Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network, and some of the advancements in bladder cancer research that most excite him. Dr. Lotan is...
Shortages in the Nursing Workforce
Smart Healthcare Safety from ECRI - May 16, 2022 19:46 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsIn this episode, we're taking another look at shortages in the nursing workforce. Healthcare has faced workforce shortages in the past, and even before the COVID-19 pandemic made things even worse. The American Nurses Association and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics forecast the retirement of...
Study Probes FDA Adverse Event Data Tied to Flexible Endoscopes
Endoscopy Insights - May 05, 2022 13:07 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsA comprehensive review and analysis of adverse event reports involving flexible endoscopes filed with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration shows a marked increase for six types of scopes from 2014 through 2021. The analysis was undertaken by Dr. Larry Muscarella, president of LFM Healthcare Solu...
Plasma-Derived Medications – Donors Make Them Possible
INS Infusion Room - April 29, 2022 23:38 - 18 minutesHost: Dawn Berndt, DNP, RN, CRNI® - Clinical Education and Publications Manager Guest: Vlasta Hakes, Senior Director, Corporate Affairs - Grifols Plasma is a vital source material for a number of plasma-derived medications that treat and prevent life-threatening diseases, illnesses and co...
Right Line, Right Now Preconference Workshop at INS 2022 – Discussion with Teleflex Leaders
INS Infusion Room - April 14, 2022 22:10 - 24 minutesWelcome to INS Infusion Room. Join us as we discuss current issues with innovative clinicians and industry partners.
How Single-Use Cystoscopes Solved Continuation of Care Challenges from Major Floods
Endoscopy Insights - April 07, 2022 13:15 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsA storm dumped three to five inches of rain in the Detroit metro area one day in June 2021, and a major flood forced a Michigan urology clinic to close. Urologists with Henry Ford Health System were forced to quickly pivot and take all their patients coming in for clinic appointments and procedu...
Top Patient Safety Concern–Staffing Shortages
Smart Healthcare Safety from ECRI - March 29, 2022 14:46 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsIn this episode, we're talking about ECRI’s number one Top 10 concern for 2022: staffing shortages and the potential dangers to both the patients and the staff. Prior to 2021, there was a growing shortage of both clinical and non-clinical staff, but the problem has grown exponentially. Our guest...
Safe IV Push Medication Administration Practice
INS Infusion Room - March 25, 2022 00:53 - 24 minutesHost: Dawn Berndt, DNP, RN, CRNI® - Clinical Education and Publications Manager Guest: Loretta Dorn, RN MSN CRNI®, Director of Clinical Liaisons – Fresenius Kabi US LLC Does your health care organization standardize practice for IV push medication administration? Do you have ready-to-adminis...
Fighting Healthcare Disparities | Supporting the Refugee Community
Smart Healthcare Safety from ECRI - March 15, 2022 12:53 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsIn this episode, we’re talking to our guest from Valleywise Health's Refugee Women's Health Clinic, serving more than 9,000 refugees since 2008 from over 60 countries and is located in the greater Phoenix, Arizona area; specifically, Maricopa County. The Refugee Women's Health Clinic has a long-...
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