https://www.pslhub.org/learn/patient-safety-in-health-and-care/patient-management/nursing/page/2/?d=1Learn: Learnenhttps://www.pslhub.org/learn/patient-safety-in-health-and-care/patient-management/nursing/impact-of-alarm-fatigue-on-the-work-of-nurses-in-an-intensive-care-environment%E2%80%94a-systematic-review-13-november-2021-r4134/4134Wed, 03 Feb 2021 13:59:00 +0000https://www.pslhub.org/learn/patient-safety-in-health-and-care/patient-management/nursing/managing-errors-and-mistakes-guidance-for-newly-qualified-nurses-24-june-2020-r2485/2485Thu, 25 Jun 2020 07:00:00 +0000https://www.pslhub.org/learn/patient-safety-in-health-and-care/patient-management/nursing/how-to-undertake-intravenous-infusion-calculations-r1326/ Key points

• Medication errors are the most common type of error affecting patient safety and the most common single, preventable cause of adverse events.
• Medicines calculations can assist in preventing an inaccurate medicines dose from being administered to the patient, which could result in suboptimal therapeutic benefit and/or possible harm to the patient.
• It is crucial for IV infusion calculations to be accurate, because these medicines directly enter the venous system and generally have a prompt action. Therefore, there is limited possibility of removing the medicine if an error is made.
• Individual nurses and healthcare organisations must ensure that medicines calculation skills are developed and maintained in practice.

]]>1326Mon, 13 Jan 2020 10:44:00 +0000https://www.pslhub.org/learn/patient-safety-in-health-and-care/patient-management/nursing/development-of-the-%E2%80%98safety-huddle%E2%80%99-in-the-community-setting-r301/ The Safety Huddle’s main aim was to improve and document all clinical handovers within individual teams across the locality. This case study explains how they initiated the huddle. It also includes downloads for;

• a template for handover
• the safety huddle template
• the standard operating procedure for the huddle.

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