Preparing supervisors to provide safeguarding supervision for healthcare staff. (Nursing Management – UK, 2017, 24(8) p. 34-41)

This paper outlines why experienced supervisors at a London healthcare provider received skills training so they could offer safeguarding supervision to front-line colleagues with case management responsibilities for vulnerable children and young people. It examines how supervisors use the main functions of supervision and a cycle of reflection in clinical practice with supervisees.

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Quality Improvement: Staff Radiation Exposure Reduction While Maintaining Patient Safety. (Journal of Radiology Nursing, 2017, 36(4) p. 242-244)

Radiology nurses continuously strive for improved patient safety. However, these practices may lead to unanticipated decreased staff safety. Nursing leadership identified an increase in quarterly dosimeter readings among staff and found that the root cause was linked to insufficient education and practices regarding radiation exposure times.

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Perceptions of Risk and Safety in the ICU: A Qualitative Study of Cognitive Processes Relating to Staffing* (Critical Care Medicine, 2018, 46(1) p. 60-70)

The aims of this study were to examine individual professionals’ perceptions of staffing risks and safe staffing in intensive care and identify and examine the cognitive processes that underlie these perceptions. Perceptions of safety hinged around the importance of achieving a “dynamic balance” influenced by the burden of prevailing circumstances and the clinical status of patients.

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Priming Patient Safety Through Nursing Handoff Communication: A Simulation Pilot Study (Western Journal of Nursing Research, 2017 39(11) p. 1394-1411)

This study aims to understand how safety culture mechanisms affect nursing safety-oriented behavior and thus patient outcomes is critical to developing hospital safety programs.

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Understanding Nursing Handoffs: Safety Scholarship in Nursing (Western Journal of Nursing Research, 2017 39(11) p. 1391-1393)

The article discusses the impact of nurse staffing, work environments and education on the safety of hospitalized patients.

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