Human factors engineering can improve patient safety
Knowing how nurses interact with the environment can help safeguard patients.
Practice Matters
Quantum change: Flapping a butterfly’s wing
Tiny quantum changes can have widespread consequences, transforming the world in untold ways.
Safe sharps disposal in the home
Nurses can easily dispose of sharps in the hospital, but it’s not so easy for patients at home. Learn how you can educate patients…
What Works: Improving documentation of restraints in the neuro ICU
Learn how one unit implemented their project, including outcomes and how to overcome barriers.
How to meet the challenge of disruptive patients
Disruptive patients can be challenging for even the most experienced nurse. Learn how identify those at high risk for disruptive behavior and strategies for…
Introducing the quantum patient
The quantum patient is an indivisible human being whose health problems might not be healed through traditional specialization.
Just culture promotes a partnership for patient safety
The authors explain how workplaces can move toward just culture, which recognizes that errors may be systemic rather than personal.
From our readers: ABC’s of evidence-based practice
A simple mnemonic can serve as a guide for the process of evidence-based practice.
Ethics and the quality of care
Leah Curtin discusses the issue of quality care from an ethical perspective.
Partner with interpreters to prepare patients for discharge
Interpreters are valuable partners when you need to teach a patient who speaks a language you don’t speak. Here’s how to achieve an effective…
Virtual visiting: The next best thing to being there
The author explains how virtual visiting helps keep patients connected with loved ones around the country or even the world.
Human factors engineering can improve patient safety
Knowing how nurses interact with the environment can help safeguard patients.
Quantum change: Flapping a butterfly’s wing
Tiny quantum changes can have widespread consequences, transforming the world in untold ways.
Safe sharps disposal in the home
Nurses can easily dispose of sharps in the hospital, but it’s not so easy for patients at home. Learn how you can…
What Works: Improving documentation of restraints in the neuro ICU
Learn how one unit implemented their project, including outcomes and how to overcome barriers.
How to meet the challenge of disruptive patients
Disruptive patients can be challenging for even the most experienced nurse. Learn how identify those at high risk for disruptive behavior and…
Introducing the quantum patient
The quantum patient is an indivisible human being whose health problems might not be healed through traditional specialization.
Just culture promotes a partnership for patient safety
The authors explain how workplaces can move toward just culture, which recognizes that errors may be systemic rather than personal.
From our readers: ABC’s of evidence-based practice
A simple mnemonic can serve as a guide for the process of evidence-based practice.
Ethics and the quality of care
Leah Curtin discusses the issue of quality care from an ethical perspective.
Partner with interpreters to prepare patients for discharge
Interpreters are valuable partners when you need to teach a patient who speaks a language you don’t speak. Here’s how to achieve…
Virtual visiting: The next best thing to being there
The author explains how virtual visiting helps keep patients connected with loved ones around the country or even the world.
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