Effecting Positive Change in Patient Safety/Advocacy Near Misses
The American Nurses Association (ANA) wants to quantify nurses' interventions in preventing errors by capturing information about "near misses." Your responses will be used to inform other nurses and hospitals of strategies to make patients safe. Identify: define the patient safety issue(s) that occurred. Intervention: detail the discipline of the individual who prevented the error from occurring. Outcome: describe the patient outcome. Recommendation: describe how this error could have been avoided. Nursing’s role in the Intervention: May we contact you? Yes No Contact information: Your name: E-mail address: Your e-mail address will not be shared, sold, traded, exchanged or rented. Phone (optional) Best time to call: Day Evening (May take a few moments to process) Search Contact ANA Join/Renew Membership Members Only Online CE NursingInsiderSpecial Offersnursesbooks.org © 2008 The American Nurses Association, Inc. All Rights Reserved Copyright Policy | Privacy Statement
Intervention: detail the discipline of the individual who prevented the error from occurring.
Outcome: describe the patient outcome.
Recommendation: describe how this error could have been avoided.
Nursing’s role in the Intervention:
May we contact you? Yes No
Contact information:
Your name:
E-mail address: Your e-mail address will not be shared, sold, traded, exchanged or rented.
Phone (optional) Best time to call: Day Evening
(May take a few moments to process)
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