| Subject: | Sentinel Event Alert - Tubing/Catheter Misconnections |
| Category: | The Joint Commission (TJC)
|
| Published: | Thu, 6 Apr 2006 - 10:00 am |
| The Joint Commission has released a Sentinel Event Alert, Issue 36, April 3, 2006, regarding tubing/catheter misconnections.
According to the Alert, tubing and catheter misconnection errors are an under-reported problem in healthcare organizations. These errors are usually discovered and corrected before any harm befalls the patient.
The Joint Commission reports that nine cases involving misconnections have been reported to the Sentinel Event Database. Of those cases, eight resulted in... The full article is available to StayAlert subscribers. Click here for a free trial subscription. |
|
RESOURCES:
Customizable Documents and Tools:
External Links:
Related MCN Products:
|
|
StayAlert! notifies healthcare customers of all federal and regulatory body legislation changes impacting the healthcare industry, including TJC (JCAHO), CDC, CMS, DHHS, FDA, OSHA, OIG and many others. StayAlert! complements this with regulatory implementation action plans. StayAlert! serves as a virtual healthcare department, augmenting traditional employee staffed departments and freeing employees to perform other vital functions. Other vendors have components of legislated requirements available online or on CD-ROM. However there is no other product that marries regulatory agency mandates with implementation tools, making the latest compliance information immediately available online. No other product provides an interpretative analysis, followed by a practical application tool, therefore providing users with an immediate solution to compliance problems. StayAlert! includes operational components for healthcare organizations, allowing complete facility compliance with mandated requirements, online. |
|
