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 …

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 …

Patient safety sounds like such a basic thing. Indeed, most people assume that they are safe
when they are in our care. As nurses, however, we know too well what can go wrong. As a …

Even though haemodialysis (HD) has transformed from an extraordinary to a commonplace
procedure over the past 50 years, outpatient dialysis centres can be potentially hazardous …

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 …

The potential for harm from errors and adverse events in dialysis is significant. Achieving a
culture of safety in dialysis to reduce the potential harm to patients has been challenging …

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 …

Aims: Patient safety culture is an important quality indicator in health care facilities and has
been associated with key patient outcomes in hospitals. The purpose of this analysis was to …

Background End-stage renal disease is a health problem that requires long-term and costly
care. Nurses are the predominant caregivers in hemodialysis units delivering the dialysis …

A way to promote patient safety is to create strategies that can contain the latent failures
present in health organizations, especially in highly complexity services, such as …