Those training to fill roles at the hospital and clinics are part of the team too. Students from the nursing program at Central Texas College attended the symposium to learn more about patient safety.

Get a broad introduction to patient safety and quality improvement work by taking a new set of online courses offered by Johns Hopkins on Coursera. Led by experts from the Armstrong Institute, the ...

Sharon Hewner, assistant professor of nursing and patient safety advocate, worked with a curriculum committee to develop the course, “Promoting Quality Health Outcomes and Culture of Safety,” that ...

UB assistant professor of nursing, Sharon Hewner, PhD, RN, herself a patient safety advocate, worked with a curriculum committee to develop the course called, "Promoting Quality Health Outcomes and ...

Registered nurses at Chinese Hospital in San Francisco, Calif., voted to ratify a three-year contract on June 27. Nurses are ...

Healthcare delivery continues to be unsafe and will probably remain that way for some time unless medical schools make substantial improvements in how they teach patient safety, according to Unmet ...

A patient safety course like the one at the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine acknowledges that, while people make mistakes, good systems can prevent bad outcomes.

Patient safety course compulsory for healthcare staff. Published on January 12, 2014 | 11:44 PM Dr al-Marri, Bisognano, Dr al-Khanji and other officials at ...

ECRI rated barcode workarounds as the second most pressing patient safety concern for 2024. Clinicians often use workarounds when there are scanning or labeling errors with medications.

No patient safety course, but we had talks here and there. I went to med school because I was passionate about science and care, so the patient safety topics weren’t the most exciting.