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National Patient Safety Awareness Week: March 13 – 19, 2022

Briggs Healthcare

Patient Safety Awareness Week is an annual recognition event intended to encourage everyone to learn more about health care safety. Patient Safety Awareness Week serves as a dedicated time and platform for growing awareness about patient safety and recognizing the work already being done.

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How Beautiful Questions and HRO Principles Enhance Patient Safety

HIT Consultant

But the team won’t know unless they ask the question and delve into each piece of the patient puzzle. Using Such Questions – Along With HRO Principles – to Enhance Patient Safety To implement these beautiful questions, organizations can learn from other segments — high reliability organizations (HROs), to be exact.

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10th Annual World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit Begins

Patient Safety Movement

On the first day of the Summit, global patient safety leaders call for increased urgency in reducing preventable deaths. A large proportion of patient safety problems can be eliminated. There wasn’t much thinking about patient safety in the pandemic planning that preceded Covid,” said Donaldson.

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Nurses Hacking for Health, Addressing Burnout, Workplace Violence, and AI

Health Populi

Three in four nurses working in hospitals care about the success of their institution — “they show up and gown up…yet only 57% feel a sense of ownership in their hospitals, leaving leaders to expect 100% quality to be delivered by about half of the nursing workforce.” health system. health system.

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Safety in Health Care Ties Closely to Workforce Well-Being – Updates from Press Ganey and ECRI

Health Populi

The phrase “patient safety” summons up a list of common sources such as medication errors, surgical errors, health care-associated infections, diagnostic errors, among other adverse events and harms people experience in the course of receiving health care. “Safety is the foundation of healthcare.

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Why is Patient Safety in Its Own Bucket?

Susan E. Mazer, Ph.D

I have always wondered why patient safety is talked about by itself. As if all other procedures, policies, and practices are not about safety. And why should patient safety be separate from the patient experience? For staff, patient safety is a lot like playing in tune for a musician.

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Encore Post: “Do No Harm” is Not Enough Anymore for Patient Safety

Susan E. Mazer, Ph.D

Note: This is a popular post from 2014 that is still relevant to the critical issue of patient safety. Florence Nightingale was not only the Mother of Modern Nursing; she also was the Mother of Healthcare Design and Patient Safety. Thus, the patient safety and quality movement was born.