Forum, May 2008 Issue

Physician-Nurse Collaboration and Patient Safety

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Articles

• Collaboration Between Physicians and Nurses: Essential to Patient Safety [PDF]
• Medical Malpractice Cases Involving Nurses [PDF]
• Building a Foundation for Nurse-Physician Collaboration [PDF]
• Lessons from Settled Malpractice Cases Involving Failed Physician-Nurse Communication [PDF]
• Triggers: Rapid Response at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center [PDF]
• How to Encourage Collaboration in the OR [PDF]
• Let’s Talk: Building Better Physician-Nurse Collaboration [PDF]
• Implementing a Nursing Peer Review Process [PDF]
• Additional Reading [PDF]

Case Studies

• Case Study: Failed Physician-Nurse Communication [PDF]