Safety Patient Care

Safety and Patient Care
Nurses as educators and care givers will play important role in establishing an environment and culture of safety, and as a result, nurses are emerging as safety leaders in the health care setting. This article discusses the history of the patient safety movement in the United States. It also describes the concepts of patient safety culture as the foundations for excellent health care delivery.
Safety has been an issue in today’s health care system. The institution of medicine a nonprofit organization conducted research from a system approach to improve the healthcare of the nation. A 1999 the institution of medicine research report to errs is human building a safer health system focused on prevention of medical errors