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# Blog & Articles

## [A Note From the Editor: Spring 2025](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/a-note-from-the-editor-spring-2025)

## [Case: Risks of Misdiagnosed Orthopedic Injuries](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/case-risks-of-misdiagnosed-orthopedic-injuries)

## [Case: Recognizing Stroke Mimics and Chameleons](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/case-recognizing-stroke-mimics-and-chameleons)

## [Case: The Critical Role of POCUS in Modern Clinical Practice](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/case-the-critical-role-of-pocus-in-modern-clinical-practice)

## [Patient Safety and Nurse Turnover Rates](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/patient-safety-and-nurse-turnover-rates)

## [Case: Boarding Psychiatric Patients in the ED](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/case-boarding-psychiatric-patients-in-the-ed-1)

## [Case: When Is It More Than Just Back Pain?](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/case-when-is-it-more-than-just-back-pain-1)

## [Hospital Triage Assessment: An Under-Appreciated Risk?](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/hospital-triage-assessment-an-under-appreciated-risk)

## [How Disruptive Behavior in Healthcare Impacts Patient Safety](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/how-disruptive-behavior-in-healthcare-impacts-patient-safety)

## [10 Considerations for Recognizing Stroke Mimics](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/10-considerations-for-recognizing-stroke-mimics)

## [Improving Nurse Retention & Job Satisfaction](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/improving-nurse-retention-job-satisfaction)

## [Case: A Nurse's Role in Preventing Diagnostic Error](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/case-a-nurses-role-in-preventing-diagnostic-error-1)

## [Diagnostic Error: Chaos or Conquerable?](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/diagnostic-error-chaos-or-conquerable)

## [Clinical Documentation and Patient Safety: We’re on a Slippery Slope](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/clinical-documentation-and-patient-safety-were-on-a-slippery-slope)

## [Situation Critical: The Discharge of Patients with Very Abnormal Vital Signs](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/situation-critical-the-discharge-of-patients-with-very-abnormal-vital-signs)

## [First Impressions are Critical to Patient Experience](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/rsqsolutions/first-impressions-critical-patient-experience)

## [10 Tools to Combat Sub-Par Triage Nurse Onboarding](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/onboarding-new-triage-nurses)

## [TSG Announces New Appointments to Executive Leadership Team](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/tsg-announces-new-appointments-to-executive-leadership-team)

## [A Comprehensive Initiative To Improve Maternal Health](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/a-comprehensive-initiative-to-improve-maternal-health)

## [Addressing Behavioral Health in the Emergency Department](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/behavioral-health-patients-in-the-emergency-department)

## [Mitigating the Consequences of Burnout, Medical Errors, and Liability](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/mitigating-the-consequences-of-burnout-medical-errors-and-liability)

## [Honoring Dr. Tom Syzek and Introducing Dr. Stassia Sullivan](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/honoring-tom-syzek-and-introducing-stassia-sullivan)

## [Case: A Nurse’s Role in Preventing Diagnostic Error](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/case-a-nurses-role-in-preventing-diagnostic-error)

## [EMTALA Considerations for Triage](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/emtala-triage-considerations)

## [Improving Healthcare Handoffs](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/healthcare-handoffs)

## [Using Telemedicine and Self-Monitoring to Safely Provide Prenatal Care to COVID-19 Patients](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/using-telemedicine-and-self-monitoring-to-safely-provide-prenatal-care-to-covid-19-patients)

## [COVID & Burnout: The MAACU Effect](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/covid-burnout-the-maacu-effect)

## [Treatment for Pregnant COVID-19 Patients Not Requiring Hospitalization](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/treatment-for-pregnant-covid-19-patients-not-requiring-hospitalization)

## [COVID–19 Vaccines During Pregnancy: What should we tell our pregnant patients about taking the vaccine?](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/covid-19-vaccines-during-pregnancy)

## [Case: When Is It More Than Just Back Pain?](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/case-when-is-it-more-than-just-back-pain)

## [Case: Complicated Angiogram Reveals VEDS Diagnosis](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/case-complicated-angiogram-reveals-veds-diagnosis)

## [COVID-19 Updates for the OB Unit](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/covid-19-updates-for-the-ob-unit-august-2020)

## [Triage Competency Checklist: Onboarding a New Nurse to Triage](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/triage-competency-checklist-triage-onboarding)

## [Anchoring: Its Role in Diagnostic Error](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/anchoring-its-role-in-diagnostic-error)

## [Pediatric Infections](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/pediatric-infections)

## [Increasing Hospital Profitability by Improving Physician Engagement](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/rsqsolutions/increasing-hospital-profitability-by-improving-physician-engagement)

## [7 Steps to Improving Patient Experience](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/7-steps-to-improving-patient-experience)

## [Surgery Malpractice: Are Surgeons More Prone to Complaints?](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/surgery-malpractice-are-surgeons-more-prone-to-complaints)

## [Surgical Error Cases](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/surgical-error-cases)

## [Obstacles to Implementing Emergency Department Triage Best Practice](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/obstacles-to-implementing-emergency-department-triage-best-practices)

## [Minimizing Spread of COVID-19 in the Obstetrics Unit](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/minimizing-spread-of-covid-19-in-the-obstetrics-unit)

## [Triage Tips for the COVID-19 Pandemic](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/triage-tips-for-the-covid-19-outbreak)

## [How Disclosure Programs - not Apology Laws - Reduce Medical Errors and Lawsuits](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/apologies-and-medical-error-do-apology-laws-create-more-medical-malpractice-lawsuits)

## [Case: How to Disclose Medical Errors to a Patient's Family](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/case-how-to-disclose-medical-errors)

## [5 Tips to Reduce Stress as an Obstetric Nurse](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/5-recommendations-to-reduce-obstetric-nursing-stress)

## [Measuring Clinical Performance Improvement in Obstetrics](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/measuring-clinical-performance-improvement-in-obstetrics)

## [Spinal Epidural Abscess: 5 Things You Should Know](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/rsqsolutions/spinal-epidural-abscess-5-things-know)

## [Differential Diagnosis for Abdominal Pain & Documentation Pearls](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/differential-diagnosis-for-abdominal-pain)

## [How to Recognize Child Abuse](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/how-to-recognize-child-abuse)

## [Strategies to Improve Provider-Patient Communication](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/strategies-to-improve-provider-patient-communication)

## [Framework for a Physician Integration Program](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/framework-for-a-physician-integration-program)

## [Informed Consent Process Forms & Documentation](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/informed-consent-form)

## [Surgical Errors](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/surgical-errors)

## [Headache Differential Diagnosis & Documentation](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/differential-diagnosis-for-headache-documentation-pearls)

## [Framework for a Nursing Clinical Excellence Program](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/framework-for-a-nursing-clinical-excellence-program)

## [Preventing Medical Errors: 7 Things Every Provider Needs to Know](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/preventing-medical-errors-7-things-every-provider-needs-to-know)

## [Improving Nursing Retention & Job Satisfaction](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/improving-nursing-retention-job-satisfaction)

## [Chest Pain Differential Diagnosis & Documentation](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/chest-pain-differential-diagnosis)

## [Chest Pain Malpractice Claims & "Bedside Maneuvers"](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/rsqsolutions/chest-pain-malpractice-claims)

## [Nurses: Standardize Patient Education with These Postpartum Warning Signs](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/standardized-patient-education-postpartum-warning-signs)

## [Framework for an Obstetrics Training Program](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/framework-for-an-obstetrics-training-program)

## [Medication Error Case: Opioid Adverse Drug Event in the Hospital](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/medication-error-case-opioid-adverse-drug-event-in-hospital)

## [Framework for an Emergency Medicine Training Program](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/framework-for-an-emergency-medicine-training-program)

## [EMTALA On-call Physicians](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/emtala-on-call-physicians)

## [Discharge Instructions for Patients: Best Practices](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/discharge-instructions-for-patients-best-practices)

## [Measles Outbreak: ACOG Practice Advisory](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/measles-outbreak-acog-practice-advisory)

## [Patient Safety in Clinical Trials](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/patient-safety-in-clinical-trials)

## [Wrong Site Surgery Statistics](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/wrong-site-surgery-statistics)

## [Best Practices of Postpartum Discharge Teaching](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/best-practices-of-postpartum-discharge-teaching)

## [EMRs & Physician Burnout: What's the link?](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/emrs-physician-burnout-whats-the-link)

## [Case Examples of EMTALA Violations](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/case-examples-of-emtala-violations)

## [What is EMTALA?](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/what-is-emtala)

## [Understanding Secondary Postpartum Hemorrhage](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/understanding-secondary-postpartum-hemorrhage)

## [Case: Recognizing Secondary Postpartum Hemorrhage](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/case-recognizing-secondary-postpartum-hemorrhage)

## [How Medical Technology Can Prevent Opioid Abuse](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/how-medical-technology-can-prevent-opioid-abuse)

## [Hot Topics: Top 10 Blogs of 2018](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/rsqsolutions/top-10-blogs-2018)

## [Triage Training Courses: How to Structure Your Education Program](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/triage-training-courses-how-to-structure-your-education-program)

## [The Missed Obvious: Patient Satisfaction Starts With Physicians](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/patient-satisfaction-starts-with-physician-satisfaction)

## [Code Trauma & Cognitive Errors](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/code-trauma-cognitive-errors)

## [Newborn Identification: A National Patient Safety Initiative](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/newborn-identification-a-national-patient-safety-initiative)

## [Physician Satisfaction: The Alpha & Omega of Medicine!](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/physician-satisfaction-the-alpha-omega-of-medicine)

## [Strategies to Reduce Harm from Opioid Prescribing & Abuse](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/strategies-to-reduce-opioid-abuse)

## [Opioid Prescribing & Liability Trends](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/opioid-prescribing-liability-trends)

## [The Opioid Crisis: Far from Over](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/the-opioid-crisis-far-from-over)

## [Medical Errors, Communication, and Teamwork: Lessons from Angola](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/medical-errors-lessons-from-angola)

## [How to Engage Nurses in Your Training Program](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/how-to-engage-nurses-in-your-training-program)

## [A Good Shift is a Choice](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/a-good-shift-is-a-choice)

## [Physician-Patient Interaction: Key Elements of Mastering the Moment](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/the-physician-patient-interaction-key-elements-of-mastering-the-moment)

## [Retained Surgical Sponge: Never Means NEVER!](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/retained-surgical-sponge-never-means-never)

## [Pay for Performance: Destroying the Essence of Medicine!](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/pay-for-performance-destroying-the-essence-of-medicine)

## [Top 10 Risks in Ambulatory Practice](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/top-10-risks-in-ambulatory-practice)

## [Optimizing Post-Delivery Care with Breastfeeding](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/optimizing-post-delivery-care-with-breastfeeding)

## [Who is Competent to Triage?](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/who-is-competent-to-triage)

## [Avoiding the Dead Leg: Acute Limb Ischemia (ALI)](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/avoiding-the-dead-leg-acute-limb-ischemia-ali)

## [Beware of the “Dirty Urine”](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/beware-of-the-dirty-urine)

## [10 Medical-Legal Basics Every Provider Must Know](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/10-medical-legal-basics-every-provider-must-know)

## [5 Strategies to Impact Maternal Mortality Rates](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/5-strategies-to-impact-maternal-mortality-rates)

## [Case: Boarding Psychiatric Patients in the ED](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/case-boarding-psychiatric-patients-in-the-ed)

## [Goals of Triage: Rapidly Identifying & Sorting Patients](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/triage-goals-rapidly-identifying-sorting-patients)

## [How to Obtain Clinician Support](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/how-to-obtain-clinician-support)

## [Measuring Clinical Performance Improvement in Emergency Medicine](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/what-is-the-emergency-medicine-assessment-tool)

## [Identifying Resources & Personnel for Initiative Implementation](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/identifying-resources-for-initiative-implementation)

## [Physician Burnout: An Emotionally Malignant Disease](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/physician-burnout-an-emotionally-malignant-disease)

## [What is the Triage Competency Assessment Tool?](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/triage-competency-assessment)

## [EMTALA and Psychiatric Hospitals](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/emtala-and-psychiatric-hospitals)

## [5 Reasons to Use Retrospective Chart Review for Triage Competency Validation](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/5-reasons-to-use-retrospective-chart-review-for-triage-competency-validation)

## [6 Common Errors in Fetal Heart Monitoring (FHM)](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/6-common-errors-in-fetal-heart-monitoring-fhm)

## [CASE: Refusal of Care Based Upon Religious Beliefs](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/case-refusal-of-care-based-upon-religious-beliefs)

## [CASE: Suicide in the Emergency Department](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/case-suicide-in-the-emergency-department)

## [Warfarin Complications](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/warfarin-complications)

## [How Disruptive Behavior in Healthcare Impacts Patient Safety](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/consequences-patient-safety-implications-disruptive-behavior-healthcare)

## [Incivility & Disruptive Behavior in Healthcare](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/disruptive-behavior-in-healthcare)

## [Pediatric Abdominal Emergencies](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/pediatric-abdominal-emergencies)

## [The Intoxicated Patient](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/the-intoxicated-patient)

## [Defending Shoulder Dystocia Claims](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/defending-shoulder-dystocia-claims)

## [Code STEMI: Calling Dr. Herrick](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/code-stemi-calling-dr.-herrick)

## [Preventing Surgical Site Infections](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/preventing-surgical-site-infections)

## [Preventing CAUTI (Catheter-Associated UTI)](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/preventing-cauti)

## [Case: Avoiding Cognitive Bias in Diagnosing Sepsis](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/case-avoiding-cognitive-bias-in-diagnosing-sepsis)

## [Can Efficiency & Productivity Return to Physician Documentation?](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/can-efficiency-productivity-return-to-the-physician-documentation-workflow-in-the-era-of-enterprise-ehrs)

## [Preventing Central Line-Associated Blood Stream Infections (CLABSI)](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/preventing-central-line-infections)

## [Healthcare-Associated Infections](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/healthcare-associated-infections)

## [Striking the Balance with EMR Risk Notifications](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/striking-the-balance-with-emr-risk-notifications)

## [Triage Nurses: Questions for Chest Pain & Chest-Related Symptoms](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/triage-questions-for-chest-pain-chest-related-symptoms)

## [Vital Signs: Leveraging the EMR to Heighten Awareness](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/vital-signs-leveraging-the-emr-to-heighten-awareness)

## [10 Considerations for Recognizing Stroke Mimics](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/stroke-mimics)

## [Encouraging the Maternal-Fetal Triage Index OB Triage Tool](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/encouraging-the-maternal-fetal-triage-index-ob-triage-tool)

## [Embedding Evidence-Based Medicine into EMR Physician Documentation](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/embedding-evidence-based-medicine-into-emr-physician-documentation)

## [4 Clinical Tips for Triage Nurses](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/4-clinical-tips-for-triage-nurses)

## [Clinical Decision Support in the “Mental Workflow”](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/clinical-decision-support-in-the-mental-workflow)

## [Shoulder Dystocia Risk Factors](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/shoulder-dystocia-risk-factors)

## [Optimizing e-Learning for Healthcare Professionals](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/optimizing-e-learning-for-healthcare-professionals)

## [Does Guided EMR Documentation Impact Clinical Practice, Documentation Compliance and Outcomes?](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/does-guided-emr-documentation-impact-clinical-practice-documentation-compliance-and-outcomes)

## [End-User vs. Risk Management: Expectations of the EMR](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/end-user-vs.-risk-management-expectations-of-the-emr)

## [Should EHR Documentation Templates Have Chief Complaint-Specific Content?](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/should-your-ehr-documentation-templates-include-chief-complaint-specific-content)

## [SLIDESHARE: The ABCs of Healthcare Risk Management](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/rsqsolutions/abcs-risk-management)

## [The History of EMRs & Opportunities to Improve Patient Safety](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/the-history-of-emrs-opportunities-to-improve-patient-safety)

## [Preeclampsia Treatment](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/preeclampsia-treatment)

## [Correlation among Competency, Patient Safety and Nurse Turnover Rates?](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/do-clinical-competency-patient-safety-and-nurse-turnover-rates-correlate)

## [Case: Is Lumbar Puncture Needed to Rule Out Subarachnoid Hemorrhage?](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/lumbar-puncture-necessary-to-rule-out-subarachnoid-hemorrhage)

## [MEDITECH ED Physician Documentation: Specific vs. General Templates](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/meditech-physician-documentation-ed-chief-complaint-specific-templates)

## [Vulnerable Adult & Elder Abuse](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/vulnerable-adult-elder-abuse)

## [Defining and Diagnosing Preeclampsia](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/defining-and-diagnosing-preeclampsia)

## [Code Sepsis: Recognize, Resuscitate, and Refer](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/code-sepsis-recognize-resuscitate-and-refer)

## [Physician Documentation Templates in MEDITECH - Workflow Videos](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/physician-documentation-templates-in-meditech-workflow-videos)

## [10 Reasons Your Urgent Care Isn't as Safe as You Think It Is](https://blog.thesullivangroup.com/10-reasons-your-urgent-care-isnt-as-safe-as-you-think-it-is)

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