The National Patient Safety Goals this year from the Joint Commission include a renewed push to reduce and eliminate healthcare-acquired infections (HAI) in every healthcare setting through increased hand hygiene compliance. The patient safety goals ask providers to make these…Read more

Medication reconciliation is a huge patient safety issue. More than four out of five adults in the United States take at least one medication, and almost a third take five or more different medications.1 This leads to increased misuse, overuse…Read more

From winning your weekly bowling league to succeeding in professional athletics, these three mental strategies can boost performance when the stakes are high. From Freaking to Peaking – How C’s Are Much More Than Average! It was the 10th frame of…Read more

Part 1 took a closer look at how an Athletic Trainer (AT) could benefit from developing a relationship with a Physical Therapist (PT). Part 2 focuses on the flip side of this relationship: why should a PT develop a relationship…Read more

Female athletes are participating in sports at record levels. Anatomic and physiological differences exist between female and male athletes including the Female Athlete Triad. The sports medicine team should consider both the short- and long-term effects of the triad when treating female…Read more