by Functional Pathways | Wednesday, June 23, 2021 | Risk Management
Wikipedia Definition: Patient safety is a discipline that emphasizes safety in health care through the prevention, reduction, reporting, and analysis of error and other types of unnecessary harm that often lead to adverse patient events. The frequency and magnitude of...
by Functional Pathways | Monday, June 7, 2021 | Risk Management
Violent actions in the workplace are ever present in the news these days. It is becoming more and more common to hear of violent actions performed against healthcare workers in all the various healthcare environments. Due to the nature of our jobs, we tend to be...
by Functional Pathways | Monday, May 3, 2021 | Risk Management
Providing therapy services can be a physically challenging job at times. Taking good care of yourself allows you to provide better care for your patients. By pre-planning activities and taking caution, you can help prevent injury and avoid needless pain. Most...
by Functional Pathways | Monday, April 12, 2021 | Risk Management
Herd immunity in some instances, is also called community immunity and is established when there is a sufficient amount of the population who show immunity to the disease thereby preventing spread. There are two ways we can establish immunity. Vaccinations build...
by Functional Pathways | Tuesday, March 23, 2021 | Risk Management
Throughout the pandemic, routine survey focus shifted to Infection Control measures, but should it not have always been there? Arguably, our nation’s most vulnerable population resides in Skilled Nursing and other post-acute care facilities, focus should always be on...
by Functional Pathways | Monday, March 8, 2021 | Risk Management
Building immunity takes time and the current estimation is two weeks after the second dose of the two-dose vaccine you will be considered “fully vaccinated.” It is still unknown the amount of time you will retain this immunity. Current discussions are ongoing to...
