Citation

Wallace SC. Am. J. Nurs. 2015; 115(11): 58-61.

Affiliation

Susan C. Wallace is a patient safety analyst at the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority in Harrisburg, PA. This article is adapted from "Balancing Family Bonding with Newborn Safety," which appeared in a publication of the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority: Pennsylvania Patient Safety Advisory 2014;11(3):102-8. Contact author: swallace@ecri.org. The author has disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, American Nurses Association, Publisher Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

10.1097/01.NAJ.0000473316.09949.1f

PMID

26510072

Abstract

The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Reporting System is a confidential, statewide Internet reporting system to which all Pennsylvania hospitals, outpatient-surgery facilities, birthing centers, and abortion facilities must file information on incidents and serious events. Safety Monitor is a column from Pennsylvania's Patient Safety Authority, the authority that informs nurses on issues that can affect patient safety and presents strategies they can easily integrate into practice. For more information on the authority, visit www.patientsafetyauthority.org. For the original article discussed in this column or for other articles on patient safety, click on "Patient Safety Advisories" and then "Advisory Library" in the left-hand navigation menu.

Language: en