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 …

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 …

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 …

Twenty years ago, the Institute of Medicine (IOM)(2000) published To Err Is Human: Building
a Safer Health System, calling attention to the number of preventable patient deaths and …

Transparency came to the forefront as a strategy for improving patient safety in the US in
1999, when the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released the first in a series of reports to address …

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] …

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

Abstract The Renal Association Patient Safety Project has identified that renal patients have
been exposed to incidents and risks from failure of dialysis equipment or disposables, or …

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 …

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 …