Nonprofit Innosight Institute's Dr. Jason Hwang says nurses can play a significant role in helping patients avoid three adverse events in particular: infection, falling and drug administration errors. Because nurses spend a lot of time with patients, "they have the biggest opportunity to impact patient safety," said Children's Healthcare of Atlanta's infection prevention manager J. Renee Watson. NurseZone.com (3/17)
Another consideration that requires safe staffing ratios and better yet nurse satisfaction...Wonders never cease when it requires maintaining actual standards for your nursing staff.
Many studies have shown that simply providing safe staffing ratios drastically limits the above incidents as well as many sentinel events. Another time for the CLUE Game...
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