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Addressing the Quality and Safety Gap - Part I
Issue 10 of the Charting Nursing's Future series examines case studies in transforming hospital nursing and building cultures of safety.
Between 44,000 and 98,000 Americans die each year as a result of hospital errors, while many others sustain serious injuries, according to the Institute of Medicine’s groundbreaking report To Err Is Human (1999). As the largest single health care workforce, nurses are playing a leading role in addressing this alarming problem. This issue of the series begins a three-part exploration of quality and safety innovations by looking at how four health care systems and a state government are using quality improvement strategies to strengthen care processes, optimize staffing, and promote safe work habits.
Charting Nursing's Future Archives
- 1 Addressing the Nursing Shortage - Part I
- 2 Addressing the Nursing Shortage - Part II
- 3 New Research that Illuminates Policy Issues
- 4 The Nursing Faculty Shortage
- 5 Facts and Controversies about Nursing Staffing Policies
- 6 New Research Provides Solutions to the Nursing Shortage
- 7 Strengthening Public Health Nursing - Part I
- 8 Strengthening Public Health Nursing - Part II
- 9 Nursing's Prescription for a Reformed Health System
- 10 Addressing the Quality and Safety Gap - Part I
- 11 Addressing the Quality and Safety Gap - Part II
- 12 Perspectives on Pay for Performance in Nursing
- 13 Expanding America's Capacity to Educate Nurses
- 14 Unlocking the Potential of School Nursing
- 15 Addressing the Quality and Safety Gap - Part III
- 16 Implementing the IOM Future of Nursing Report - Part 1
- 17 Implementing the IOM Future of Nursing Report - Part II
- 18 Implementing the IOM Future of Nursing Report - Part III
- 19 Celebrating a Sustained Commitment to Improving Health and Health Care Through Nursing: RWJF Marks Its 40th Anniversary
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