Meeting Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations requirements for tobacco cessation: the St. Joseph's/Candler Health System approach to success.

Health care institutions can no longer treat only the sequelae of tobacco use. Smoking-cessation programs must be instituted to meet health promotion and education goals developed on admission for all patients. Leading authorities, such as the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, now include tobacco-cessation counseling as quality performance measures.

Intravenous medication safety system averts high-risk medication errors and provides actionable data.

A major responsibility of nursing leaders is to implement systems and policies to improve patient and staff safety, avoid medication errors, and most importantly safeguard patients against harm. In the medication use process, the nurse at the bedside is the most vulnerable, and intravenous (i.v.