Nurses and Transforming Patient Safety

The Health Foundation in its latest publication Nursing a safer future: how nurses are using proactive approaches to manage patient safety says that improvement activity has relied on reactive approaches to safety management following harm to patients.  It believes that nurses must move towards a more proactive approach to safety management.
 
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Involving people in safety: a summary of learning from a Health Foundation roundtable.  
Tools and Strategies for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety 
Patient Safety’s First’s:  

Leadership for safety Reducing harm from deterioration 

Reducing harm in critical care  

Reducing harm in perioperative care 

Reducing harm from high risk medicines  

Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-based Handbook for Nurses from the AHRQ.  
The Royal College of Nursing’s publications on Quality Improvement.  
The Center for American Nurses’ The Nurse’s Role in Promoting a Culture of Patient Safety.