Last week at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Patient Safety Congress in Dallas, the 27 members of the National Steering Committee for Patient Safety (NSC) issued the Declaration to Advance Patient Safety. The NSC features healthcare organizations and healthcare systems; patients,...
Though COVID-19 narrowed the focus on the nursing shortage, other conditions have contributed to it far longer than the pandemic: a higher education system that is training too few nurses; workforce conditions...
Events such as the May 14 grocery story shooting in Buffalo, New York, and the May 24 school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, can be triggering for anyone in healthcare—particularly for anyone who has been on the job for any mass casualty event.