CCMA Patient Safety Questions: Catch the Mismatch Before the Handoff
Spot the mismatch using approved identifiers A common CCMA safety problem is the “familiar patient” trap: the assistant recognizes a face or remembers a frequent visitor and assumes the chart in hand must belong to that person. That is not a safe match. Before a handoff, specimen step, rooming update, or message relay, the chart […]
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