Improving Patient Safety through Effective Team Performance

Submitted by ISRN Coordinati... on Mon, 03/25/2013 - 10:49

“Patients and caregivers should not be at risk in the ways they often are now. We are working to radically change healthcare culture and plot a course to zero tolerance for causal factors of error, ”¹ Mary Salisbury, MSN, RN, President, The Cedar Institute, Inc., and ISRN Steering Council Member.

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Choosing Wisely – Reducing Inappropriate Use

Submitted by ISRN Coordinati... on Fri, 03/22/2013 - 10:25

Contributed by John Øvretveit, PhD, Karolinska Institutet Medical University, Stockholm Sweden.

“Choosing Wisely" - is a more effective way to enlist physicians into more appropriate testing and treatments than "de-implementation" or "stop using ineffective interventions".

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TeamSTEPPS® Master Training Workshop - Registration Open

Submitted by ISRN Coordinati... on Mon, 03/18/2013 - 10:54

May 8-10, 2013 | San Antonio, TX

Are you a Health Professional or Educator who wishes to improve patient safety through interprofessional teamwork?

The Academic Center for Evidence-Based Practice is hosting a TeamSTEPPS® Master Training Workshop May 8-10, 2013.

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Where to Publish Your QI Results -- UPDATE

Submitted by ISRN Coordinati... on Thu, 03/14/2013 - 09:02

With your comments and suggestion, the list of journals has been updated. Keep the suggestions coming in!!

Fueled by the discussions of the CTSA Nursing Special Interest Group (SIG), the ISRN published the Blog post Where to Publish Your Results... What's Your Opinion? asking for YOUR opinion about 'where to publish manuscripts' in the emerging fields of translational science, quality improvement studies, dissemination/implementation research, and newly-dubbed fields (such as delivery systems science).

Network News Briefs

Submitted by ISRN Coordinati... on Mon, 03/11/2013 - 11:15

Network News is a quarterly newsletter designed to connect you to the emerging Improvement Science Research Network (ISRN)—the first nationwide collaboration of clinical and academic leaders devoted to generating a robust science to accelerate quality improvement in hospital patient care.

The Louise H. Batz Patient Safety Foundation

Submitted by ISRN Coordinati... on Fri, 03/01/2013 - 11:28

National Patient Safety Awareness Week

On Monday, we were proud to announce the ISRN's involvement with the National Patient Safety Awareness Week. We also mentioned that we were partnering with the Louise H. Batz Patient Safety Foundation in a national effort to raise awareness about safe care. In this blog post we would like to share with you the story about how the Batz Foundation came to be.