Understanding nurses’ and physicians’ fear of repercussions for reporting errors

"Although further investigation is needed to examine these and other factors in detail, supportive safety leadership appears to be central to reducing fear of reporting errors for both nurses and physicians."

Understanding nurses’ and physicians’ fear of repercussions for reporting errors: clinician characteristics, organization demographics, or leadership factors?
ES Castel, LR Ginsburg, S Zaheer, H Tamim
BMC Health Services Research, 2015, 15:326

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Framework for personalised care and population health

"This framework has been developed to underpin our national programme to maximise the impact of nurses, midwives, health visitors and allied health professionals on improving health outcomes and reducing inequalities."

A framework for personalised care and population health for nurses, midwives, health visitors and allied health professionals
Department of Health, Public Health England
July 2014

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Nurses and their work environment affect patient experience

"Nurses must gain autonomy over their own practice in order to improve patient experiences."

How nurses and their work environment affect patient experiences of the quality of care: a qualitative study
RAMM Kieft, BBJM de Brouwer, AL Francke, DMJ Delnoij
BMC Health Services Research, 2014, 14:249

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Care, compassion, competence, communication, courage, commitment

"The 6Cs Live! Communication hub will offer support and help to staff to deliver the six areas of action by signposting to evidence based tools and techniques as well as examples of how colleagues from across the country have delivered improvement in these areas."

Access 6Cs Live! here.

Nursing a safer future

"Nurses are well placed to make care safer and are doing impressive work to improve the safety of their patients."

Nursing a safer future: how nurses are using proactive approaches to manage patient safety
Health Foundation, Nursing Times
July 2013

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Evidence base of the public health contribution of nurses and midwives

This guide provides evidence sources for nurses and midwives working in public health. It lists sources of good practice, innovation, evidence, and key public health domains:

1. Improving the wider determinants of ill health
2. Health improvement
3. Health protection
4. Healthcare public health and preventing premature mortality

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Making health care safer

The Annals of Internal Medicine have published a special edition reviewing the evidence supporting strategies to improve patient safety. The articles included in this issue are:

1. The top patient safety strategies that can be encouraged for adoption now promoting a culture of safety as a patient safety strategy: a systematic review
2. In-facility delirium prevention programs as a patient safety strategy: a systematic review
3. Patient safety strategies targeted at diagnostic errors: a systematic review 
4. Inpatient fall prevention programs as a patient safety strategy: a systematic review
5. Medication reconciliation during transitions of care as a patient safety strategy: a systematic review
6. Nurse–patient ratios as a patient safety strategy: a systematic review
7. Preventing in-facility pressure ulcers as a patient safety strategy: a systematic review
8. Rapid-response systems as a patient safety strategy: a systematic review
9. Simulation exercises as a patient safety strategy: a systematic review
10. Hospital-initiated transitional care interventions as a patient safety strategy: a systematic review

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Nurse staffing, burnout, and health care-associated infection

"Reducing burnout in registered nurses is a promising strategy to help control
infections in acute care facilities."

Nurse staffing, burnout, and health care-associated infection
JP Cimiotti, LH Aiken, DM Sloane, ES Wu
American Journal of Infection Control, 2012, 40:486-490

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Intentional rounding: what is the evidence?

"The available evidence suggests that intentional rounding can help staff to organise their workload and provide more systematic reliable care."

Intentional rounding: what is the evidence?
Policy +
King's College, London
April 2012

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