Website spotlight: Nurses too scared to speak up
Nurse Leader Weekly, April 4, 2011
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Rebecca Hendren, for HealthLeaders Media, March 29, 2011
How many quality improvement projects are going on in your organization right now? How many committees are devoted to improving safety? If you're like most facilities, there are probably dozens. Across the country, countless hours are devoted to preventing errors that harm patients through creating checklists, protocols, automated systems, and the like.
Are they worthless?
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