AHRQ Patient Safety Network: Special Focus Issue: Patient Safety.

AHRQ Patient Safety Network

A special issue of the popular nursing journal AORN J focuses on patient safety.
AORN J. 2014;100:351-456.

Special Focus Issue: Patient Safety.

Wagner VD, ed. AORN J. 2014;100:351-456.

Articles in this special issue explore strategies to establish a culture of safety in health care settings, includingcoaching to improve team briefing and debriefing discussions, a guideline to confirm safe perioperative on-call staffing, and the value of workforce safety to promote high reliability.

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The normalization of deviance: what are the perioperative risks?

McNamara SA. AORN J. 2011;93:796-801.

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Adherence to a medication safety protocol: current practice for labeling medications and solutions on the sterile field.

Brown-Brumfield D, DeLeon A. AORN J. 2010;91:610-617. 

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Causes of near misses: perceptions of perioperative nurses.

Cohoon B. AORN J. 2011;93:551-565.

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Communication in the perioperative setting.

Cvetic E. AORN J. 2011;94:261-270.

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