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Critical Care Nursing

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•Health Care Providers (77)

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•Hospitals (78)

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STUDY

Intensive care unit nurses' perceptions of safety after a highly specific safety intervention.

Elder NC, Brungs SM, Nagy M, Kudel I, Render ML. Qual Saf Health Care. 2008;17:25-30.

COMMENTARY

Patient safety and collaboration of the intensive care unit team.

Despins LA. Crit Care Nurse. April 2009;29:85-91.

MEETING/CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

Safety in the NICU: preventing medical errors.

Stokowski LA. Highlights of the National Association of Neonatal Nurses 22nd Annual Conference [Medscape.com]. March 8, 2007.

COMMENTARY

Unreported errors in the intensive care unit: a case study of the way we work.

Henneman EA. Crit Care Nurse. 2007;27:27-34.

COMMENTARY

Changing the work environment in ICUs to achieve patient-focused care: the time has come.

McCauley K, Irwin RS. Chest. 2006;130:1571-1578.

STUDY

The impact of a tele-ICU on provider attitudes about teamwork and safety climate.

Chu-Weininger MYL, Wueste L, Lucke JF, Weavind L, Mazabob J, Thomas EJ. Qual Saf Health Care. 2010;19:e39.

STUDY

Structural empowerment and patient safety culture among registered nurses working in adult critical care units.

Armellino D, Quinn Griffin MT, Fitzpatrick JJ. J Nurs Manag. 2010;18:796-803.

STUDY

Worries and concerns experienced by nurse specialists during inter-hospital transports of critically ill patients: a critical incident study.

Gustafsson M, Wennerholm S, Fridlund B. Intensive Crit Care Nurs. 2010;26:138-145.

STUDY

Developing and testing a tool to measure nurse/physician communication in the intensive care unit.

Manojlovich M, Saint S, Forman J, Fletcher CE, Keith R, Krein S. J Patient Saf. 2011;7:72-76.

STUDY

Nurses' behaviors and visual scanning patterns may reduce patient identification errors.

Marquard JL, Henneman PL, He Z, Jo J, Fisher DL, Henneman EA. J Exp Psychol Appl. 2011;17:247-256.

STUDY

Improving communication in the ICU using daily goals.

Pronovost P, Berenholtz S, Dorman T, Lipsett PA, Simmonds T, Haraden C. J Crit Care. 2003;18:71-75.

STUDY

Medical errors recovered by critical care nurses.

Dykes PC, Rothschild JM, Hurley AC. J Nurs Adm. 2010;40:241-246.

STUDY

Competence and certification of registered nurses and safety of patients in intensive care units.

Kendall-Gallagher D, Blegen MA. Am J Crit Care. 2009;18:106-113.

COMMENTARY

Double Dosing, by the Rules

Cohen H. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. February/March 2009.

STUDY

Recovery from medical errors: the critical care nursing safety net.

Rothschild JM, Hurley AC, Landrigan CP, et al. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2006;32:63-72.

IMAGE/POSTER

Distributing Cognition: ICU Handoffs Conform to Grice's Maxims.

Brandwijk M, Nemeth C, O'Conner M, Kahana M, Cook RI. Departments of Pediatrics and Anesthesia and Critical Care: Chicago, IL: University of Chicago.

STUDY

Moral distress, compassion fatigue, and perceptions about medication errors in certified critical care nurses.

Maiden J, Georges JM, Connelly CD. Dimens Crit Care Nurs. 2011;30:339-345.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Too many abandon the "second victims" of medical errors.

ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. July 14, 2011;16:1-3.

STUDY

Orienting frames and private routines: the role of cultural process in critical care safety.

Hazlehurst B, McMullen C. Int J Med Inform. 2007;76(suppl 1):129-35.

STUDY

A model of recovering medical errors in the coronary care unit.

Hurley AC, Rothschild JM, Moore ML, Snydeman C, Dykes PC, Fotakis S. Heart Lung. 2008;37:219-226.

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