Keeping patients safe is a core responsibility of all nurses working in every clinical setting. Patient safety as a nursing specialty, however, focuses on in depth analysis and critical incident reviews of adverse events utilizing quality and performance improvement methodologies such as lean six-sigma, failure mode effects analysis (FMEA), and root cause analysis.
What do patient safety nurses do?
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- Patient safety nurses have knowledge of evidence-based clinical practices, national benchmarks, and regulatory reporting requirements.
- Patient safety nurse specialists communicate safety improvement recommendations that are derived from the analyses to hospital administration and implement error prevention strategies into the organizational structure.
- Patient safety nurses may manage quality improvement projects, contribute to annual revisions to the Patient Safety Plan, provide regular feedback to leadership, and serve as a liaison to Risk Management and other quality teams.
More patient safety nursing resources
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- Nursing Pocket Cards, including isolation precautions and CLABSI
- Guideline Summaries, including suicide risk assessment
- Blog posts, with infographics, mnemonics, tips, and more
- Articles and nursing continuing professional development (NCPD) activities
- Headlines and news stories
- Society partners