Latest Patientsafety Podcast Episodes
How to Implement a Successful RPM Program
Vital Insights - October 05, 2021 09:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe development and implementation of remote patient monitoring solutions into healthcare spaces has been a long and winding road. Today's guest has been in the front seat for most of that historical journey – and can probably attest to more than her fair share of the bumps along the way. But wi...
Fighting Healthcare Disparities | COVID-19 Vaccine Access
Smart Healthcare Safety from ECRI - October 04, 2021 14:25 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsThis episode is part of a series regarding the ECRI and the ISMP Patient Safety Organization's (PSO) annual Deep Dive report. The 2021 Deep Dive report focuses on issues of racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare. Research has repeatedly confirmed that members of racial and ethnic minority ...
Vital Insights: Fast Takes - The Standardization of Health Data
Vital Insights - September 28, 2021 15:27 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe Vital Insights podcast crew regularly sits down with internal experts at EarlySense for what we call “Fast Takes” – quick conversations with people who are in the know. From clinical architects to technology engineers to industry analysts – they have their finger on the pulse of everything t...
Vital Insights: Fast Takes - Virtual Care for a Post-Pandemic World
Vital Insights - September 28, 2021 09:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe Vital Insights podcast crew regularly sits down with internal experts at EarlySense for what we call “Fast Takes” – quick conversations with people who are in the know. From clinical architects to technology engineers to industry analysts – they have their finger on the pulse of everything t...
Vital Insights: Fast Takes - Top Three Issues Impeding Virtual Care
Vital Insights - September 28, 2021 09:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe Vital Insights podcast crew regularly sits down with internal experts at EarlySense for what we call “Fast Takes” – quick conversations with people who are in the know. From clinical architects to technology engineers to industry analysts – they have their finger on the pulse of everything t...
Vital Insights: Fast Takes - The Staying Power of Hospital@Home Movement
Vital Insights - September 28, 2021 09:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe Vital Insights podcast crew regularly sits down with internal experts at EarlySense for what we call “Fast Takes” – quick conversations with people who are in the know. From clinical architects to technology engineers to industry analysts – they have their finger on the pulse of everything t...
Vital Insights: Fast Takes - The Make-or-Break Factor of Patient Compliance
Vital Insights - September 28, 2021 09:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe Vital Insights podcast crew regularly sits down with internal experts at EarlySense for what we call “Fast Takes” – quick conversations with people who are in the know. From clinical architects to technology engineers to industry analysts – they have their finger on the pulse of everything t...
Vital Insights: Fast Takes - Sleep as a Clinical Marker
Vital Insights - September 28, 2021 09:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe Vital Insights podcast crew regularly sits down with internal experts at EarlySense for what we call “Fast Takes” – quick conversations with people who are in the know. From clinical architects to technology engineers to industry analysts – they have their finger on the pulse of everything t...
An In-Depth Look at Digital Healthcare Infrastructure
Vital Insights - September 20, 2021 22:50 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe name AT&T has been synonymous with telephone communications, with the company’s history going all the way back to Alexander Graham Bell. But after more than a century of business evolution, the company now provides the infrastructure for some of the largest business industries around the wor...
Innovative Dressing for Ultrasound-Guided Peripheral Intravenous Catheter Insertion
INS Infusion Room - September 20, 2021 21:52 - 22 minutesHost: Dawn Berndt, DNP, RN, CRNI® – INS Clinical Education and Publications Manager Guest: Nancy Moureau, PhD, RN, CRNI®, CPUI, VA-BC - Chief Executive Officer and Educational Specialist at PICC Excellence, Inc. Standardizing practice for ultrasound-guided peripheral intravenous catheter (U...
Best Practices in Endoscope Reprocessing
Endoscopy Insights - September 20, 2021 16:31 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration revealed in a letter to healthcare providers that it’s investigating numerous medical device reports describing patient infections and other possible contamination issues potentially associated with reprocessed urological endoscopes. Dr. Larry Muscarella del...
FDA Investigating Reports of Infections Associated with Reprocessed Urological Endoscopes
Endoscopy Insights - September 20, 2021 16:27 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration is investigating “numerous” medical device reports (MDRs) describing patient infections and other possible contamination issues possibly associated with reprocessed urological endoscopes. Dr. Larry Muscarella, an independent safety expert who advises hospita...
The FDA’s Safety Communication Update for Reprocessing Bronchoscopes
Endoscopy Insights - September 20, 2021 16:22 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently updated a safety communication on reprocessing flexible bronchoscopes. In that update, the FDA recommends, among other things, that healthcare providers consider using single-use bronchoscopes when there is increased risk of spreading infection and ...
Infection Control Risks and Endoscopy
Endoscopy Insights - September 20, 2021 16:12 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWhat are the challenges, and potential missteps, when it comes to reprocessing bronchoscopes, GI endoscopes and ureteroscopes? How have guidelines and standards evolved? And how has COVID-19 flipped the script when it comes to pursuing evidence-based strategies to eliminate infections related to...
Managing Vulnerable Patient Populations
Vital Insights - September 16, 2021 21:27 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsOur two guests on this episode of Vital Insights join us from HealtheMed, an organization dedicated to improving the lives of the Medicaid participants living isolated at home in the community. HealtheMed’s Clinic@Home telemedicine platform drives improved care outcomes, and we welcome our two g...
Vital Insights: Fast Take - The Accuracy Baseline Lies in Data Standardization
Vital Insights - September 16, 2021 21:20 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn the world of remote, or virtual, care, there’s one thing that’s of huge importance, and that’s the ability of healthcare providers to rely on the data they’re receiving as being accurate. If the data is inaccurate, the whole foundation falls apart. Today's episode talks about how manufacturer...
Vital Insights: Fast Take - Why Gold Standards Matter
Vital Insights - September 16, 2021 20:56 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe Vital Insights podcast crew regularly sits down with internal experts at EarlySense for what we call “Fast Takes” – quick conversations with people who are in the know. From clinical architects to technology engineers to industry analysts – they have their finger on the pulse of everything t...
Data That Save Lives: Improving Patient Safety with Smart Infusion Pumps
INS Infusion Room - August 30, 2021 00:59 - 38 minutesHost: Dawn Berndt, DNP, RN, CRNI® – INS Clinical Education and Publications Manager Guest: Dan Degnan, PharmD, MS, CPPS, FASHP – Clinical Research Associate, Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering; Clinical Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice, College of Pharmacy Purdue Universi...
Preparing for the Next Global Pandemic
Smart Healthcare Safety from ECRI - July 26, 2021 14:09 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsToday, more than a year into the COVID pandemic, we're talking about the process of disaster recovery. While much has been written over the past year about the ways in which the national and global healthcare systems prepared (or could have prepared) for the pandemic, and should prepare for the ...
Smileyscope: Pain Management with Venipuncture and Vascular Access Procedures
INS Infusion Room - July 22, 2021 22:35 - 38 minutesHost: Dawn Berndt, DNP, RN, CRNI® – INS Clinical Education and Publications Manager Guests: · Evelyn Chan, MBBS, MSc, DCH · Thomas Sutton Interested in innovative technology that supports pediatric pain management and procedure phobia? In the 2021 Infusion Therapy Standard...
Overcoming COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy
Smart Healthcare Safety from ECRI - July 01, 2021 19:58 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsWith access to COVID-19 vaccines now more widespread throughout the United States, but still only available under emergency use authorization, employers are wrestling with questions about whether to mandate that their staff received the vaccine. Perhaps, no industry has a more fraught decisions ...
Discussing Healthy Work Environment and Nurses’ Health with the New INS President
INS Infusion Room - June 11, 2021 21:24 - 21 minutesHost: Dawn Berndt, DNP, RN, CRNI® – INS Clinical Education & Publications Manager Guests: Sue Weaver, PhD, RN, CRNI®, NEA-BC – President, INS Board of Directors Do you know the six standards of a healthy work environment? Is research part of your clinical practice? Are you ready to accept th...
Vein Visualization and Vessel Health
INS Infusion Room - May 28, 2021 15:38 - 47 minutesHost: Dawn Berndt, DNP, RN, CRNI® – INS Clinical Education & Publications Manager Guests: • Nancy L. Moureau PhD, RN, CRNI®, CPUI, VA-BC • Dennis J. Ernst, MT(ASCP), NCPT(NCCT) • Peter J. Carr PhD, MMedSc, BSc, RN The use of vascular visualization technology is recommended to increase ins...
Sickle Cell Disease My Story – Remembering Kelsey Taylor
INS Infusion Room - May 13, 2021 23:56 - 28 minutesHost: Dawn Berndt, DNP, RN, CRNI® – INS Clinical Education & Publications Manager Guest: Kelsey Taylor (Recorded June, 2019) Sickle cell disease is a family of blood disorders that affects the hemoglobin molecule in red blood cells, and impacts approximately 80 000 individuals in the United ...
What Is the Value of Joining a PSO?
Smart Healthcare Safety from ECRI - May 12, 2021 15:22 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsThe U.S. Department of Health and Human Services formally designated ECRI as a Patient Safety Organization (PSO) in 2008. Since then, our PSO has studied nearly 4 million adverse events and near misses from over 1,400 healthcare providers nationwide across acute, ambulatory, and aging services. ...
Tips and Tricks for Effective Educational Programs
INS Infusion Room - May 10, 2021 21:12 - 30 minutesHost: Dawn Berndt, DNP, RN, CRNI® – INS Clinical Education & Publications Manager Guest: Marlene M. Steinheiser, PhD, RN, CRNI® – INS Director of Clinical Education Abstract: Whether developing micro-learning capsules, traditional classroom lesson plans, or annual competency reviews, nursi...
The Dirty Dozen: Contaminated Things
INS Infusion Room - March 26, 2021 21:51 - 40 minutesHost: Dawn Berndt, DNP, RN, CRNI® – INS Clinical Education & Publications Manager Guest: Maureen Burger MSN, RN, CPHQ, FACHE Abstract: Infection prevention in infusion therapy is crucial for safeguarding patient safety. Application of Aseptic Non Touch Technique (ANTT®) is essential for all...
Top 10 Health Technology Hazards to Watch
Smart Healthcare Safety from ECRI - March 15, 2021 17:31 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsToday, we're talking about ECRI's 2021 list of the Top 10 Health Technology Hazards. This report is intended to identify potential sources of danger that we believe warrant the greatest attention for the coming year and offer practical recommendations for reducing the risks. The 2021 list featur...
Vascular Access Device Complications
INS Infusion Room - March 02, 2021 23:27 - 36 minutesHost: Dawn Berndt, DNP, RN, CRNI® – INS Clinical Education & Publications Manager Guest: Barb Nickel, APRN-CNS, CCRN, CRNI® Abstract: Nurses must be competent to recognize signs and symptoms of vascular access device (VAD)-related complications at any juncture in the life of the device and b...
COVID-19 Vaccines: Questions Answered
Smart Healthcare Safety from ECRI - January 29, 2021 21:24 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsIn this episode around COVID-19 vaccines, we’ll discuss topics like why two shots are needed with the currently authorized vaccines, concerns about allergies and contraindications, new mutations, and more.
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