Perspectives
Our Perspectives on Safety section features expert viewpoints on current themes in patient safety, including interviews and written essays published monthly. Annual Perspectives highlight vital and emerging patient safety topics.
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This piece discusses how undergraduate professional nursing education integrates the topic of patient safety into classroom and clinical instruction, and how this affects patient safety as a whole.
Editor’s note: Cheryl B. Jones is a professor, director of the Hillman Scholars Program, and interim associate dean of the School of Nursing’s PhD program at the University of North Carolina at... Read More
This piece focuses on workplace violence trends in healthcare settings and strategies for creating a safer healthcare environment.
This piece focuses on the importance of patient safety following the end of the public health emergency and how organizations can move beyond the pandemic.
This piece focuses on the importance of patient safety following the end of the public health emergency and how organizations can move beyond the pandemic.
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This piece discusses overprescribing of antibiotics and opioids in dental care and challenges in implementing stewardship programs.

Katie J. Suda, PharmD, MS is a professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine. She is a pharmacist by training with a specialty in infectious diseases and a research concentration in the area of dental antibiotic and opioid stewardship. We discussed antibiotic and opioid prescribing in dental care and challenges for implementing stewardship programs.