Author name: Vitalacy Team

Before getting into specifics, put the issue of patient safety in perspective: What do you think would happen if 100,000 people died every year in airplane crashes? Doubtless, the aviation industry would descend into a critical state of emergency, devoting all available resources to address and maintain consumer safety. Yet, this is about how many

Recent data indicates that close to 25,000 fatal falls and 3.2 million medically-treated injuries from non-fatal falls occurred in hospitals across the U.S. in 2012. These figures make one thing clear: falls are highly prevalent in hospitals. This is a serious concern because according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, falls are the

Providing patients with sufficient attention and compassion can be just as crucial to their overall outcomes as the clinical treatment they receive in-hospital. This can be achieved through the practice of purposeful nurse rounding, i.e., when ward nurses carry out regular checks on their patients at set intervals, using a standardized protocol. Extensive research has