Insights

By meeting titrated medications regulatory requirements, healthcare organizations not only enhance compliance with medication safety practices but empower nurses to provide high-quality patient care ... read more

Vizient’s 2024 chief nursing officer wellbeing survey identifies leadership fatigue and secondary trauma as key drivers in burnout and turnover... read more

Through insights from the 2024 Vizient/AACN Nurse Residency Program™ (NRP) Outcomes Report, healthcare leaders should focus on eight key trends for licensed nurses in 2025... read more

Patients who lose the ability to perform daily living activities during a hospitalization have longer lengths of stay. A recent Vizient PI collaborative indicated mobilization programs not only incre... read more

Silver dressings have been found to be effective against various strains of bacteria, including resistant strains and fungus. They are commonly used to manage localized bioburden in a wide range of w... read more

Effective recall management — whether involving pharmaceuticals, medical devices, food, equipment, vehicles or other defective products — are critical to ensuring patient safety... read more

The devices can reduce the discomfort and pain associated with multiple attempts at finding a vein and improve the accuracy and speed of vein location, reducing the need for repeat attempts or more i... read more

To ensure patient safety, water quality is key. And there are four main strategies that can help achieve that goal: regular water quality testing, water treatment and technologies, equipment maintena... read more

Sustainable procurement in clinical labs remains in its infancy — but we can, and should, harness the potential of environmental stewardship to evolve current laboratory practices. Vizient’s Mellissa... read more

With World Patient Safety Day just around the corner, it feels especially important to highlight some key — and startling — statistics... read more

While advanced energy is a popular category with versatile solutions that make surgery more efficient and precise, there are challenges, especially around surgeons’ fear of change. Luckily, there are... read more

Learn about important action steps hospitals can take to prevent, manage and contain outbreaks of high-consequence infectious diseases such as Ebola, SARS and COVID-19, especially as The Joint Commis... read more