Articles on Perinatal Quality & Safety

This article explores the critical role of psychological safety in delivering safe, high-quality healthcare, particularly within multidisciplinary teams operating in complex, high-stakes environments.

Describes components of safety culture

This is a brief article highlighting the definition of a sentinel event and how organizations can learn and improve systems of care as a result.

This month’s blog post dives into a real-life clinical case involving not one, but two “never events”—and the key lessons every healthcare professional can learn from it.

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Discover how the Fishbone diagram enhances root cause analysis in healthcare. Learn to use the Fishbone diagram to improve patient safety.

This article provides study tips for the ONQS NCC exam

Integrating change in healthcare can be difficult for many reasons including a lack of the following resources to effectively drive...

Error prevention using checklists is one strategy used by the aviation industry that was later integrated into healthcare to improve safety.

TJC requirement around patient identification is described along with errors involving patient identification.

Difficulties with intrapartum fetal heart monitoring have been identified as a key area of preventable harm.

This article discusses how humans process information related to the development of cognitive biases.

The Model for Improvement, developed by Associates in Process Improvement, is a prominent quality improvement approach in healthcare. The...

In this hospital example, triage occurred on the labor unit. Care providers assigned to triage could also be caring for patients outside of

A 32-year-old G2 P1 undergoes an elective induction of labor at 39 weeks. She’s admitted at 6 a.m. The night nurse quickly starts....

Before putting quality and safety work into practice, it’s important to plan for the challenges brought on by implementation and...

This article discusses severe maternal morbidity and mortality in the United States.

This article describes the six sigma roadmap and describes one hospitals experience using this model to reduce bed turnaround time.

This article discusses symptoms experienced by the Second Victim, stages of response, and supportive strategies.

Structured communication tools, such as CUS and the two-challenge rule can help guide conversations when there is concern for patient safety