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‘First, Do No Harm’: Patient Safety for Healthcare Professionals
It’s a fact of life: Mistakes happen. When those mistakes involve medical errors, however, the costs can be…
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Criminally Negligent Homicide and Patient Safety
In December 2017, RaDonda Vaught, a nurse at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, administered a dose…
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Elderly Patient Falls: Have we Made any Progress?
What kind of progress have we made toward preventing elderly patient falls in healthcare? For the last decade,…
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What is the Price of Patient Safety in the Face of Hospital Cost-Cutting Measures?
In today’s healthcare environment, workers are being asked to do more with less, and this includes nurses. As…