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Feature Article:   What to Do When You Make a Clinical Error

You checked, you double-checked, and you even checked a third time. But despite your best efforts, you've made a clinical error. What are the necessary steps to properly document and rectify the situation?

Feature Article:   A Broader Look at Disability

What does it mean to be disabled? It's much more than the physical effects of being in a wheelchair or the inability to feed yourself. Having a disability can affect all aspects of a person's life.

Feature Article:   Are You Ready for the New Anticoagulant Program Requirements?

It's not too soon to think about the New Year, which will mark the implementation date of the Joint Commission's National Patient Safety Goals for 2009. It's likely you already have January1, 2009 on your radar because hospitals, critical-access hospitals, and ambulatory, home care, and long-term care organizations are required to have an anticoagulation safety program in place by that date.

Feature Article:   Cross-Cultural Counseling: How to be More Effective

Counselors strive to create both a trusting relationship and a comfortable environment with all their clients so that the difficult task of healing therapy can begin. Today, clients seeking counseling come from an array of backgrounds, requiring counselors to know and understand the various ways culture impacts the counseling relationship.