Conclusion Nurse safety is an important topic for organizations, individual nurses, and the
patients they serve. While patient safety is often identified as a top priority, as heretical as it …

Patient safety seems like such a basic thing--so basic that we often assume it exists when it
does not. The Institute of Medicine (IOM)(2000) report, To Err Is Human: Building a Safer …

The slogan for Nurses' Week 2016 is Culture of Safety--It Starts With You, reflecting the
critical responsibility of each individual registered nurse in creating and sustaining a culture …

To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System, caught the attention of the media, and
there were headlines across the nation about the safety (or lack of safety) for patients in …

Little is known regarding the specific managerial activities or best practices that nurse
managers in outpatient hemodialysis settings use to achieve positive safety outcomes. The …

With its philosophical origins extending back to mid-19th century Paris (Sackett, Rosenberg,
Gray, Haynes, & Richardson, 1996), Florence Nightingale used EBP during the Crimean …

harm-free healthcare errors occur at a much higher rate (300 times higher rate) than adverse
events, where harm actually occurs (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality [AHRQ] …

In order to assure patient safety, it is necessary to create positive patient safety cultures. This
article presents the initial qualitative results from a national study," Patient Safety Culture in …

Hospitals face the increasing challenge of balancing the need to provide quality care with
that of being cost-effective. While guidelines and benchmarks for quality care exist in many …

Patient safety culture has been studied in many practice settings, but there is a dearth of
information on the culture of safety in nephrology nurse practice settings. This research …