Patient Safety

There's been a lot of buzz—and a lot of articles—about hospitals that are using the micro-blogging site Twitter to describe surgeries in real...Read More »

Some hospitals believe they can't afford investing in assistive technologies that improve patient safety and protect nurses from injury. Can...Read More »

The general public have a particular image of nursing in their heads. It's a caring individual at a patient's bedside giving...Read More »

Test staff knowledge on The Joint Commission's National Patient Safety Goals with the following questions.

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The general public have a particular image of nursing in their heads. It's a caring individual at a patient's bedside giving...Read More »

Test staff members' knowledge of healthcare-associated infections with the following questions. Answers are on p. 12.Read More »

A transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedure replaces a patient's diseased aortic valve through a delivery device...Read More »

There is a whole field of medicine related to keeping patients safe in ­hospitals, and many of these professionals' daily jobs...Read More »

Music at loud decibels can contribute to miscues among surgeons and nurses in the operating room, raising the risk of medical error, researchers...Read More »

Could patient-centered design lead to reduced readmission rates and less expensive outcomes? As hospital construction has held steady during the...Read More »