Nurse-to-Physician Communications: Connecting for Safety

By Diane W. Shannon, MD, MPH; and Leigh Ann Myers, RN, MSN

Ms. Jones, a 52-year old real estate agent, pulls into the hospital parking garage and after some delay, finds a free space. She hurries to the elevator, knowing that her 85-year old father, Mr. Kelley, is eager to get home after his three-day hospitalization for an exacerbation of chronic heart failure.

ECRI Institute PSO Deep Dive™ Analyzes Medication Events

By Charlotte Huber, RN, MSN; Barbara Rebold, RN, MS; Cynthia Wallace; and Karen P. Zimmer, MD, MPH

With this issue, Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare (PSQH)
reaches its fifth anniversary, which prompts me to take a moment and
think about how much the world has changed and stayed the same in the
past five years. When we published the first issue, in July 2004, the
patient safety community was discussing how much progress—if any—had
been made since the IOM published To Err Is Human five years earlier, and now we are assessing progress made over the past 10 years.

DNV Accreditation Leads to Improving Informed Consent

By Emily Turnure, RN, MSN, NEA-BC

South Jersey Healthcare (SJH) is an integrated health system that performs a high volume of surgeries each year in its two hospitals, emergency, and outpatient services departments. That volume of procedures requires a diligent patient informed consent process to ensure patient safety, patient satisfaction, and the highest quality of care.

Editor’s Notebook

Are We There Yet?

By Susan Carr

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