Showing posts with label medical errors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label medical errors. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Finding Solutions for Stressed Out, Exhausted Nurses, and Potentially Depressed RNs

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A new survey of more than 3,300 registered nurses (RNs) shows that a majority were extremely stressed out due to lack of sleep, long hours,...
Thursday, May 8, 2014

Rates of Infections, Falls, Pressure Ulcers, Other Hospital Acquired Conditions Drop

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Hospitals saw a nine percent decrease in harms experienced by patients from 2010 to 2012, according to a new report from the U.S. Health and...
Monday, March 10, 2014

One in Three Nursing Home Patients Are Harmed By Medical Errors

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A recent government survey found that approximately one-third of patients who were discharged from hospitals to skilled nursing facilities...
Thursday, February 27, 2014

Sound Bending Invention Could Reduce Stressful Hospital Noise

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Excessive hospital noise is stressful for both patients and nurses and can lead to medical errors due to alarm fatigue. To address these iss...
Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Hospital’s Communications, Medical Teams Join Forces to Highlight Medical Errors

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By combining the expertise of a multi-disciplinary medical team and the Communications Department, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cance...
Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Bedside Shift Changes for Nurses Can Reduce Errors, Improve Patient Satisfaction

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Performing nurses’ shift changes at the patient’s bedside can reduce potential medical errors and increase patient satisfaction , according ...
Tuesday, October 22, 2013

A Longitudinal Pridit Approach to Explaining Hospital Quality

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Health outcomes can vary between high- and low-quality institutions, and research has been conducted to identify variables that determine ho...
Tuesday, April 16, 2013

New JAMA Study Underscores Why the Business Case for Nursing Is Problematic

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A new study to be published tomorrow in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) finds that hospitals profit when patients ha...
Thursday, September 20, 2012

INQRI in the News

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Check out some recent news coverage of INQRI projects... Last week, we told you about a new journal article authored by INQRI grantees w...
Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Reducing Central Line Infections

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Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center recently found that hospitals can use a set of basic precautions to reduce the number...
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Friday, August 31, 2012

INQRI Team Finds that Better Environments for Nurses Mean Fewer Medication Errors

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The findings of an INQRI study led by Linda Flynn were published in the Journal of Nursing Scholarship recently.  The article explains that...
Friday, July 20, 2012

Practice Environment Impacts Medication Error Interceptions by Nurses

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INQRI grantees Linda Flynn, Dong Suh and their team were recently published in the Journal of Nursing Scholarship with their article, ...
Monday, June 18, 2012

Nurses Deflect Medical Errors In Cardiac Operating Room

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A study published in this month's edition of the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses Journal found that circulating nurses p...
Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Temp ER Nurses a Safety Threat to Patients, Study Shows

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According to new research from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, temporary emergency room nurses who are unfamiliar with their ...
Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Hazard Alerting Loop Proving Successful in Washington

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The Washington Hospital Center is successfully using a "Hazard Alerting Loop" system (HAL) to avoid patient safety problems. HAL i...
Monday, June 27, 2011

The Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2011

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Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) has introduced legislation to establish federal standards for hospital nurse-to-patient ratios. Schakow...
Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Johns Hopkins Creating Patient Safety Institute

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According to Dr. Edward Miller, dean and chief executive of Johns Hopkins Medicine: "Fewer things are more important in health care rig...
Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Scary Statistics... Unsafe Injection Practices

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According to an article on the Wall Street Journal's Health Blog, unsafe injection practices continue to occur, despite education effort...
Friday, April 22, 2011

New Edition Focuses on Reducing Errors, Improving Safety

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Check out this newly released edition focused on reducing health care errors: Error Reduction in Health Care: A Systems Approach to Improv...
Monday, April 11, 2011

Health Affairs Article: "Preventing Bloodstream Infections: A Measurable National Success Story in Quality Improvement"

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This week, we'll be highlighting papers published in the new edition of Health Affairs, entitled "Still Crossing the Quality Chasm....