Episode #23: Patient and Clinician Safety in Hospitals Today: A Chief Nursing Officer’s experience and perspective featuring Liz Murphy

Patient and Clinician Safety in Hospitals Today:  A Chief Nursing Officer’s experience and perspective featuring Liz Murphy

Introduction to Episode:

When it comes to patient and clinician safety, what’s keeping you up at night?

Are the clinician’s in your organization at risk?  Is their safety being threatened?

Patient safety has been on the minds of healthcare leaders across the United States ever since the Institute of Medicine published the landmark report, To Err is Human:  Building a Safer Health System.

More recently there is increasing concern about clinician safety.

Clinician harm is escalating. 

Are we doing enough to keep clinician safe?  Do we have the right safeguards in place?

In this episode we talk with Liz Murphy an experienced CNO from a large hospital in Western Michigan. 

Liz shares her insights and experiences around clinician safety and examples of processes, and practices for keeping clinicians safe.

Join us to learn more about the safety challenges and some innovative practices to maintain safety for both patients and clinicians.

Inside the Episode We Talk About:

·         Biggest threats to clinician safety

·         Best practices for keeping clinicians safe

·         Psychiatric and safety response teams

·         Safety courses/training

·         Disruptive behavior

·         Behavior standards

·         Long-term affects of physical and verbal harm

·         Intolerance

·         Individual safety practices

·         Second victim

·         Discharge and transitions of care as safety risk for patients

·         Best practices for patient safety

Related Episodes:

Episode #8:  Patient and Clinician Safety from a Patient’s Point of View 

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