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Qualification/Competency Assessment

The Role of Teamwork in the Professional Education of Physicians: Current Status and Assessment Recommendations
Identifying Impaired Physicians: How to address problem physicians quickly
Ask the experts : Float Nurse Competency
Commentary : Racial stereotyping and Medicine; Need for Cultural Competence
JCI: Institute of Mental Health's Nursing Competencies Assessment Checklist

Credentialing/Privileging

Proposed Revisions to the Medical Staff Credentialing and Privileging standards
Physican Assistance in Hospital : Credentialing and Privileging

Assessing Staffing Effectiveness

Turning the Tide on the Nursing Shortage: Training, Recruiting, and Retaining Registered Nurses
Exploring Assumptions About Teams
Assessing the Quality of Communication Within an Organization
Determining Appropriate Staffing Levels
Securing Your Organization’s Safety: A Proactive Approach
The Healthcare Workforce in Europe: Problems and solutions
Managing Unnecessary Variability in Patient Demand to Reduce Nursing Stress and Improve Patient Safety
Staffing Effectiveness
Improving Nurse-to-Patient Staffing Ratios as a Cost effective Safety Intervention
Nursing Shortage: Not a simple problem
Joint Commission White Paper : Strategies for Addressing Evolving nursing Crisis

Supervision

Taking a Patient Safety Approach to an Integration of Two Hospitals
A Morning Briefing: Setting the Stage for a Clinically and Operationally Good Day
Monitoring Conditions in the Environment

Orientation

Orienting Staff to Ensure Patient Safety
Building Contractor Awareness: One Hospital Uses a Handbook to Help Educate Construction Workers
Joint Commission Code of Conduct
Preparing new Nurses with Effective Orientation, Training and Education
Float staff
Case and Commentary : Nursing
Agency staff
Benefits of a healthy workplace for nurses, their patients and the system
“Keeping Each Patient Safe”: Quality Safety Teaching/Learning Packets

In-Service/Continuing Education & Training

Needlestick prevention educational brochure
Training, Recruiting and Retaining Registered Nurses
Video: Part of the Oath: The Physician's Role in Medication Safety
JCR: 10 Ways to Improve Patient Safety
Electronic Resource: Patient Rights Web-Based Training
Using Teaching/Learning Packets to Create a Culture of Safety
Screen-Saver Technology: An Easy Way to Enhance Communication with Employees
Educating Staff About Providing Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Health Care
Altering Meperidine Prescribing Patterns in a University Teaching Hospital
Just-in-Time Training: A Web-Based Tool for Needlestick Injury
Team training
Case Study : Team Building for Hospital at Night

Compliance with Policies & Procedures

Hand hygiene
Goal ImageNational Patient Safety Goal 7A

Goal ImageInternational Patient Safety Goal 5A

SOL_image Improved Hand Hygiene to Prevent Health Care-Associated Infection (HAI) (PDF)

Sentinel Event Alert #28
Infection Control in Medication Storage Bins
Getting Your Hands on a Culture of Safety
Improving Hand Hygiene Practice with Six Sigma
WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care
WHO Global Challenge
Promoting Proper Hand Hygiene in your organization
Performance Improvement in Infection Control
Collecting Data for Infection Control Efforts
Gathering Information for Universal Protocol
Hand Hygiene Practices in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Multimodal Intervention and Impact on Nosocomial Infection
Hand Hygiene in Healthcare Settings
IHI Improving Hand Hygiene Guide
Facts about Universal Protocol
Sentinel Event Alert #24
Sentinel Event Alert #6
ACS Statement
A Slides Set on Hand Hygiene
See also Infection related events
Surgical site marking
Goal ImageNational Patient Safety Goal 4B

Goal ImageInternational Patient Safety Goal 4C

Time out
Goal ImageNational Patient Safety Goal 4A

Goal ImageInternational Patient Safety Goal 4B

Sentinel Event Alert #6
Sentinel Event Alert #24
ACS Statement
Implementation Expectations for Time Out
Universal Protocol
Implementations Expectations for Universal Protocol
Righting Wrong Site Surgery
Frequently Asked Questions for the Universal Protocol
Facts about Universal Protocol

Design and use of Equipment

Design Flaws
Conducting Quality Control Checks for Waived Testing
Using "No problem found"
Sentinel Event Alert #21
Sentinel Event Alert #25
Sentinel Event Alert #27
Sentinel Event Alert #15
Poor interface design and lack of usability testing facilitate medical error
Using "no problem found" in infusion pump programing as a springboard for learnning about human factors engineering
An overlooked alliance: Using human factors engineering to reduce patient harm
Who left the defibrillator on?
Nuts! I can't figure out how to use my life-saving epinephrine auto-injector!
Human Factors Engineering: Taking Root Cause Analysis One Step Further
User Training
Needlestick prevention educational brochure
Sentinel Event Alert #8
Sentinel Event Alert #22
Ergonomics in Action : Art and Science to Reduce Health Care Worker Back Injuries
Needlestick Prevention for Worker Safety : Sharps Injuries a Leading Occupational Hazard
Using variance analysis to detect hazards in a bar-code-assisted medication preparation process
An overlooked alliance: Using human factors engineering to reduce patient harm
Using "no problem found" in infusion pump programing as a springboard for learnning about human factors engineering
Nuts! I can't figure out how to use my life-saving epinephrine auto-injector!

Fatigue

Limiting Fatigue in Medical Residents: Improving awareness by increasing rest
Fatigue and Anesthesiology
Discipline-Specific Role in Safety: Engaging Physicians in Safety Initiatives

Behavior/Attitude

Violence Prevention Program for Worker Safety
Intimidation: Practitioners Speak Up About This Unresolved Problem
Defensive Medicine: Physicians’ fear of lawsuits may cause poor patient care
Civility in the Health Care Workplace: Strategies for Eliminating Disruptive Behavior
Factsheet: Violence in the workplace
Problem Doctors: Is There a System-Level Solution?
Physician engagement and computerized order entry
Guide to reducing errors in the ED

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