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• Why patient hand-offs are important to successful care

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  Standardizing the transition of care helps improve patient safety and ensure the patient's care is smooth and no information is lost

• Oversleeping is NOT a waking up problem

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  Follow these going to bed tips to make sure you never oversleep and arrive late for your on-duty shift, training class or meeting

• Planning for patient safety: Strategic planning, goals and measurement

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  Outlining defined goals and metrics through strategic planning prevents medical errors from reaching patients in the prehospital environment

• Kan. county ambulance returns after nearly year-long makeover

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  The box of the nearly 10-year-old ambulance was remounted onto a new chassis, repainted and equipped with a new cot system

• Photo of the Week: Mayo Clinic ambulance focuses on safety

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  The new ambulance includes a redesigned patient care area layout, injury-reduction features and climate control systems

• Racial disparities in EMS

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  Are we providing the same high-quality EMS treatments to all of our patients?

• Prevent EMS medication errors with checklists and job aids

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  Most EMS providers have witnessed or been involved with a medication error attributable to poor system design and lack of safety behaviors

• An EMS leader’s duty to patient safety

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  The Center for Patient Safety launches a webinar series, “The Road to High Reliability,” allowing industry experts to share strategies to reduce clinical errors by cultivating a robust safety culture

• How to avoid, survive an ambulance collision

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  Ambulance collisions, which happen with frightening regularity, often result in injury and are occasionally fatal, especially for private vehicle drivers

• EMS crews brought patients to the hospital with misplaced breathing tubes. None of them survived.

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  Unrecognized esophageal intubation has occurred in Rhode Island at least 11 times in the last three years, according to a report by The Public's Radio

• Infection control: 4 tips to embrace a clean squad culture

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  Protect your crew, your patients and yourself by limiting your infectious disease exposure risk with PPE and best practices

• Plague in the modern day: Public health outbreaks at home and away

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  From mumps and measles, to the plague and Ebola, it is critical EMS is aware of the outbreaks, syndromes and conditions on the radar of public health

• Role of EMS in preventing infectious disease transmission

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  EMS providers need to follow infection control guidelines for care and transport of patients with infectious, contagious and even deadly antibiotic-resistant organisms

• Some busy hospitals say they must turn away ambulances. Here's how one state banned the practice

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  A Journal Sentinel investigation found at least 21 deaths that came after patients were turned away from hospitals

• 2 Ind. FDs seek to mandate dementia awareness training for first responders

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  The departments hope to make training on identifying patients with dementia a requirement

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