Safety cultures encourage the reporting of adverse events and unsafe conditions. A just and trusting culture can reduce nurse burnout.

Hospitals must prevent "never events", but most don’t have the technology to track frequency or quality of patient monitoring.

By increasing the number of observations, hospitals can achieve a truer measure of compliance and quantitatively reduce HAIs.

Safety cultures should have five elements: informed culture, reporting culture, learning culture, just culture and flexible culture.

By CS Copeland, PhD “Do-the-2. Verify two patient identifiers — every patient, every time." This pithy advice from the University of Texas Medical Branch at ...

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