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Enhancing Patient Safety in Nursing: Strategies and Practices

Relias

Medical errors are a healthcare professional’s worst nightmare. One of the most effective ways to reduce this number is by focusing on patient safety in nursing. For many hospitals, achieving better outcomes begins with the implementation of improved patient safety protocols. What is patient safety in nursing?

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The Six Domains of Health Care Quality — New Considerations

Relias

Healthcare organizations have been using a quality improvement framework consisting of six attributes — safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable — for decades. But new research has expanded the framework to include elements that address more recent challenges in healthcare and in society.

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Extended Nurse Work Hours and Patient Safety: Effects and Solutions

Relias

While most healthcare organizations have eight-hour shifts, many hospitals have relied on 12-hour shifts since the 1970s. But the effect of long nurse work hours on patient safety is an area of concern. Many concerns with 12-hour shifts are tied to nurse overtime and patient safety.

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Telehealth is Gaining Traction, but do Mental Health Providers Like It?

Society of Clinical Psychology

This represents a critical gap in the literature, given that providers are often the gatekeepers of healthcare innovations. If providers do not support the use of TMH-V, patients will be unable to access TMH-V care. Concerns regarding licensure, patient safety, and provider liability. At the patient level?