Background Nurses play an essential role in patient safety. Inadequate nursing physical
assessment and communication in handover practices are associated with increased patient …

Background Nurses play a major role in patient safety. Poor nursing assessment and
communication practices are associated with higher incidence of the adverse events of …

Background Miscommunication during handover has been linked to adverse patient events
and is an international patient safety priority. Despite the development of handover …

Background Standardising handover processes and content, and using context-specific
checklists are proposed as solutions to mitigate risks for preventable errors and patient harm …

Background Patient safety is threatened when early signs of clinical deterioration are missed
or not acted upon. This research began as a clinical–academic partnership established …

Introduction Poor patient assessment results in undetected clinical deterioration. Yet, there is
no standardised assessment framework for> 29 000 Australian emergency nurses. To …

Abstract In 2008, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust introduced a ward-based
performance assessment framework, the Nursing Assessment and Accreditation System …

Aim Identify and analyse literature investigating nurses' and midwives' use of early warning
tools during the care of adult inpatients. Design An integrative literature review. Methods …

Introduction Positive deviance is an asset-based approach to improvement which has
recently been adopted to improve quality and safety within healthcare. The approach …

RICHARDSON A. & STORR J.(2010) Patient safety: a literative review on the impact of
nursing empowerment, leadership and collaboration. International Nursing Review57, 12 …