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Avoid Sentinel Events With Effective Communication

Published on Tue Mar 04, 2014

Summarize the patient’s situation using an SBAR. You can improve outcomes and decrease hospitalizations with efficient communication between nurses and physicians. Understanding key communication differences is the first step. Know how you can ensure that the doctors know whether a communication is routine, urgent or emergent. Don’t Get Derailed by a Failure to Communicate Almost 70 percent of sentinel events [...]
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