AHRQ Patient Safety Network

The Collection > Nurse Managers

Narrow By

clear selections

Safety Target

•Device-related Complications (26)

•Diagnostic Errors (2)

•Identification Errors (15)

•Discontinuities, Gaps, and Hand-Off Problems (69)

•Fatigue and Sleep Deprivation (21)

•Medication Safety (230)

•Medical Complications (74)

•Nonsurgical Procedural Complications (14)

•Surgical Complications (49)

•Transfusion Complications (1)

•Psychological and Social Complications (29)

Origin/Sponsor

•Asia (21)

•Australia and New Zealand (31)

•Central and South America (2)

Resource Types

•Journal Article (585)

•Legislation/Regulation (5)

•Meeting/Conference (4)

•Newspaper/Magazine Article (27)

•Press Release/Announcement (1)

•Special or Theme Issue (14)

•Tools/Toolkit (6)

•Web Resource (4)

Error Types

•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (107)

•Active Errors (86)

•Latent Errors (43)

•Near Miss (22)

Approach to Improving Safety

•Quality Improvement Strategies (114)

•Legal and Policy Approaches (22)

•Error Reporting and Analysis (124)

•Communication Improvement (135)

•Human Factors Engineering (93)

•Teamwork (80)

•Specialization of Care (34)

•Logistical Approaches (111)

•Culture of Safety (118)

•Technologic Approaches (75)

•Education and Training (136)

Clinical Areas

•Allied Health Services (1)

•Medicine (295)

•Nursing (525)

•Pharmacy (42)

Target Audience
< All

Nurse Managers

Setting of Care

•Hospitals (434)

•Psychiatric Facilities (6)

•Residential Facilities (19)

•Ambulatory Care (27)

•Outpatient Surgery (2)

•Patient Transport (3)

1 - 20 of 665

Show ExcerptDon't Show Excerpt

dropdown

COMMENTARY

A plan for achieving significant improvement in patient safety.

Johnson K, Maultsby CC. J Nurs Care Qual. 2007;22:164-171.

STUDY

Barriers to nurses' reporting of medication administration errors in Taiwan.

Chiang HY, Pepper GA. J Nurs Scholarsh. 2006;38:392-399.

STUDY

Use of temporary nurses and nurse and patient safety outcomes in acute care hospital units.

Bae SH, Mark B, Fried B. Health Care Manage Rev. 2010;35:333-344.

REVIEW

Fall prevention in hospitals: an integrative review.

Spoelstra SL, Given BA, Given CW. Clin Nurs Res. 2012;21:92-112.

STUDY

Nursing care quality and adverse events in US hospitals.

Lucero RJ, Lake ET, Aiken LH. J Clin Nurs. 2010;19:2185-2195.

STUDY

The association of shift-level nurse staffing with adverse patient events.

Patrician PA, Loan L, McCarthy M, et al. J Nurs Adm. 2011;41:64-70.

COMMENTARY

Nursing student medication errors: a case study using root cause analysis.

Dolansky MA, Druschel K, Helba M, Courtney K. J Prof Nurs. 2013;29:102-108.

STUDY

Influence of unit-level staffing on medication errors and falls in military hospitals.

Breckenridge-Sproat S, Johantgen M, Patrician P. West J Nurs Res. 2012;34:455-474.

COMMENTARY

Increasing the use of 'smart' pump drug libraries by nurses: a continuous quality improvement project.

Harding AD. Am J Nurs. 2012;112:26-35.

STUDY

Nursing home error and level of staff credentials.

Scott-Cawiezell J, Pepper GA, Madsen RW, Petroski G, Vogelsmeier A, Zellmer D. Clin Nurs Res. 2007;16:72-78.

STUDY

Nurses' responses to medication errors: suggestions for the development of organizational strategies to improve reporting.

Covell CL, Ritchie JA. J Nurs Care Qual. 2009;24:287-297.

STUDY

Nurses' perceptions of causes of medication errors and barriers to reporting.

Ulanimo VM, O'Leary-Kelley C, Connolly PM. J Nurs Care Qual. 2007;22:28-33.

REVIEW

The effect of nurse staffing patterns on medical errors and nurse burnout.

Garrett C. AORN J. 2008;87:1191-1192, 1194, 1196-1200, 1202-1204.

STUDY

An investigation of the relationship between safety climate and medication errors as well as other nurse and patient outcomes.

Hofmann DA, Mark B. Personnel Psychol. 2006;59:847-869.

REVIEW

The novice nurse and clinical decision-making: how to avoid errors.

Saintsing D, Gibson LM, Pennington AW. J Nurs Manag. 2011;19:354-359.

STUDY

Nurses relate the contributing factors involved in medication errors.

Tang FI, Sheu SJ, Yu S, Wei IL, Chen CH. J Clin Nurs. 2007;16:447-457.

BOOK/REPORT

Focus on Patient Safety.

Fitzpatrick J, Stone P, Hinton-Walker P, eds. Annual Review of Nursing Research. New York, NY: Springer; 2006. ISBN: 0826141366.

STUDY

Hospital staff nurses' shift length associated with safety and quality of care.

Stimpfel AW, Aiken LH. J Nurs Care Qual. 2013;28:122-129.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Scanner beep only means the barcode has been scanned.

ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. June 30, 2011;16:1-2.

COMMENTARY

A performance improvement plan to increase nurse adherence to use of medication safety software.

Gavriloff C. J Pediatr Nurs. 2012;27:375-382.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Next >