There is no greater pain than the loss of a child. It is a degree of suffering that is impossible to grasp without experiencing it first-hand. And this type of [...]
Getting caregivers to embrace the philosophical goal of zero harm is easy, but having them institute zero as an operational goal has been discovered to be a much more daunting [...]
Sepsis, redefined in 2016 because of new recommendations aimed to enhance its diagnosis, is “a life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated host response to infection,” taking the lives of [...]
Mari Miceli, a retired Registered Nurse, is the creator of a revolutionary app called PatientAider. With her experience educating patients through the medium of shared resources, Miceli saw the need [...]
Early on in his career, Dr. Tim McDonald, MD, JD, realized the healthcare system’s approach to handling patient harm, events, and mistakes was all wrong. Barriers within the health and [...]
“Correctly placing and securing a breathing tube for a patient and performing an intubation is one of the riskiest procedures in healthcare.” – Drew Fuller, MD, CPPS, MPH, FACEP, RRT
Airway procedures take [...]
True integration of mental health services into medical care may have seemed like an impossible dream even five years ago, but today an increasing number of medical systems are recognizing the [...]
“With my background in family medicine, emergency medicine was not difficult to learn, but in the early 1980’s we were terrified when an acutely ill or injured child came into the [...]
Parrish Medical Center, a 210- bed, non-profit organization has made a commitment to all 13 of the Patient Safety Movement Foundation’s Actionable Patient Safety Solutions (APPS). Edwin Loftin, Chief Nursing [...]
