Ten Years After Keeping Patients Safe: Have Nurses' Work Environments Been Transformed?

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Ten Years After Keeping Patients Safe: Have Nurses' Work Environments Been Transformed?

April 2, 2014

Princeton, NJ: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Washington, DC: George Washington University School of Nursing. March 14, 2014;22:1-8.

This issue brief discusses what has changed since the Keeping Patients Safe report was released a decade ago, including continued efforts toward improving work environments to reduce opportunities for harm and the persisting challenges that hinder progress.

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