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Rounding

  • By Gayle Porter
  • October 10, 2022

Research shows that bedside nurses who told patients they would check on them every hour on a handful of critical topics (belongings, pain, etc.) were able to reduce patient

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Part II: What is Quality for the Rest of Us?

  • By Gayle Porter
  • October 3, 2022

At first, I was disappointed with some of the reactive responses to adverse events: Nurses on my team were sometimes counseled or written up for being the “origin” of

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Part I: What is Quality for the Rest of Us?

  • By Gayle Porter
  • September 26, 2022

What is the purpose of Healthcare Quality Improvement (QI) exactly? And what does it mean to have quality “for the rest of us”? At the most basic level, Healthcare

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Resources: The Barrier Analysis

  • By Gayle Porter
  • September 23, 2022

Quality tools are used in many different fields, from auto manufacturing to software development, and I thoroughly enjoy applying those tools in unusual ways. The chance to be both

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Patient Consent: A Manifesto

  • By Gayle Porter
  • September 19, 2022

We have an accessibility problem in healthcare. Translation services are difficult to obtain and utilize, and for patients who are illiterate, or whose primary language is, for example, Mexican

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Process Improvement With Excessive Acronyms (PIWEA)

  • By Gayle Porter
  • September 12, 2022

The first time someone told me about the scientific method, I was deeply disappointed. I really thought I was going to learn how to use a Bunsen burner to

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