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Healthcare Workforce Safety: Nurse Safety and Patient Safety Go Hand in Hand

Relias

­Healthcare workforce safety depends on both nurse safety and patient safety. Patients depend on competent, compassionate care, physical security, and the satisfaction of knowing they’re well cared for. Conversely, inadequate staffing negatively impacts nurse safety and patient safety.

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Healthcare Workforce Safety: Nurse Safety and Patient Safety Go Hand in Hand

Relias

­Healthcare workforce safety depends on both nurse safety and patient safety. Patients depend on competent, compassionate care, physical security, and the satisfaction of knowing they’re well cared for. Conversely, inadequate staffing negatively impacts nurse safety and patient safety.

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Not a single version - of truth or of the report

Learning Social Worker

We have found, during our research for Forever Gone: Losing Count of Patient Deaths (7th August 2023) that there are NHS trusts who seem to investigate the majority of their deaths and have more open and transparent ways of reporting them. The culture at NSFT has been described as unsafe. This has happened in plain sight, in THEIR sight.

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How Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Can Influence Healthcare

Relias

By ensuring that you have an equitable environment, you are creating an organizational culture that will attract and retain experienced staff and support your patients. How culture influences attitudes, behaviors and expectations related to health, medications, treatment regimens, healthcare, and healthcare providers.

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The draft Mental Health Bill: parliamentary proposals for change

Community Care

By Tim Spencer-Lane The joint committee on the draft Mental Health Bill was appointed in July 2022 to consider the government’s draft bill to reform the Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA) , which is summarised here. The joint committee received 114 submissions of written evidence and over 100 responses to its online survey.

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Memorial Hermann Health System’s Innovative Approach To Reimagining a Culture of Excellence

Relias

Adapting communications to meet urgent needs. Communication is always a key priority in a high reliability-focused organization. Taking a disciplined approach to incorporate interventions aligned to support patient safety as a core value is imperative, especially during a pandemic. An 8-hour mental health day.

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Don’t Call Us Heroes: Nursing Is a Calling — and a Profession

Relias

Transparency and communication with nursing leaders. Better support for work-life balance — for example, mental health services, encouragement of using personal days, and streamlining processes. Stronger management training. Advocating on behalf of nurses to hospital executives. Listen to the nurses. We have made our demands.