Want to Reduce Costs Due to Employee Absenteeism? The TakeCHARGE Campaign May Be Able to Help
Lost work days among staff costs business owners in many ways
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I Turned 18 and Healthcare Changed for Me:
What I Wish I’d Known Then
When I turned 18, I was looking forward to moving away for college, being able to vote, and maybe purchasing a lottery ticket one day or getting a tattoo.
Read MoreTakeCHARGE Campaign Moves to “Step 2” — Keep Track of Your Medical History and Medications
TakeCHARGE Campaign Moves to “Step 2” — Keep Track of Your Medical History and Medications The popular TakeCHARGE Campaign 5 Steps to Safer Health Care has entered its second month with a new task for everyone who wants to stay safer and enjoy more secure medical care. For the month of May, the mission for…
Read MoreTakeCHARGE Campaign Focuses Second Month of Action on Keeping Personal Medical Records
The TakeCHARGE Campaign (5 Steps to Safer Health Care) has laid out five steps individuals can and should take towards safer health care. The campaign aims to teach and motivate the whole community to do one of these steps each month between April and August 2020. April’s task was to “Understand and Complete Your Advance…
Read MoreThe First Month of The TakeCHARGE Public Health Care Awareness Campaign Was a Huge Success
Coronavirus and Patient Empowerment By Ilene Corina, BCPA, President, Pulse Center for Patient Safety Education & Advocacy At a time when the term “coronavirus” is a common everyday word, there is more to it than a disease that is affecting millions of people. When we think of coronavirus we may think of either those who…
Read MoreBringing Work Home
Bringing My Work Home This may be an odd way of saying that I bring my work home with me — but as a patient safety advocate, focusing on helping the families and friends of patients understand and prevent unplanned outcomes in healthcare – I can truly say I am bringing work home with me. …
Read MorePPS April 13th 2020
PPS April 13th 2020 7:00 PM Eastern Time Step #1 Understand and Complete Your Advance Directives Continuing on the theme of The TakeCHARGE Campaign Susan Capurso, an End of Life Doula and Legacy Creator of East End Doula Care will speak about The Five Wishes Document and the essential reasons to complete this document for…
Read More“Rants of a Patient Safety Advocate”
“Rants of a Patient Safety Advocate”: Stories from the Bedside Ilene Corina BCPA, leading national educator and campaigner for patient safety, has published a collection of her stories from the bedside. Titled Rants of a Patient Safety Advocate, the book —a no-holds-barred account of the fight to improve medical safety standards in America — has…
Read MoreDo You Know Your Meds?
Do You Know Your Meds? Pulse has always been about helping educate members of “the public” about being actively involved in their medical care and most important, preparing to enter the healthcare system. But it’s easy to forget that people who work in health care are also members of the public and will, inevitably, be…
Read MoreActivist Turned Advocate to Stop Medical Errors
March 2020 Ilene Corina, BCPA, President,Pulse Center for Patient Safety Education & Advocacy In March 2020, it is 30 years since the death of my son from a preventable medical error. I use this term because it is one that I read about in research; research done by healthcare professionals who talk to each other…
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