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Nursing should be considered as an essential element of any patient safety improvement effort.
Surgeons, nurses, doctors, technicians and others gather in simulators at Harvard to learn teamwork.
Participants say it saves lives, money, and grief. Even skeptics say it’s worth the time and it should be done everywhere.
Organizations need to work within a just culture framework that looks beyond the individuals to fully understand why certain policies are sidestepped.
Nurses are named much less often than they are involved.
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March 2, 2021
At the request of its membership, the AMC PSO convened the Virtual Care Task Force to offer guidance for patient safety experts in their efforts to provide the safest possible care to patients through a virtual platform.
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September 26, 2012
Supervising physicians are obliged to know (and share) what risks mid-level provider arrangements may pose to their patients and practice.
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May 1, 2008
While the PCA Committee’s case reviews had long provided an opportunity to identify nursing issues and system problems related to the cases discussed, its mission (and time constraints) limited the opportunity for an in-depth, thoughtful examination of nursing practice, recognition of practice patterns, and determination of nursing action steps to mitigate patient problems.
The Triggers Rapid Response process has helped to enhance collaborative communication by standardizing the expectations for response when a patient becomes unstable. The criteria and the naming of the program with the “trigger” phrase provides rule-based communication that eliminates ambiguity in the expected response.
