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 This Best Practices Center is dedicated to sharing ideas for providing excellent patient care proven successful at facilities around the country. Here we have narrowed our focus to new and innovative nursing protocols for pain management, infection control, preventing medical errors and patient falls, pressure ulcers and "failure to rescue."
Podcast: Evidence-Based Best Practices
An interview with Susan E. Shapiro, PhD, RN, CEN, and Mary E. Foley, MS, RN, both with the Center for Research & Innovation in Patient Care, UCSF School of Nursing.
Error & Action
Preventing medication errors means understanding the real cause.
Before the Fall
For nurses, fall prevention begins with the first assessment.
Feeling Their Pain
Best practices in acute pain nursing care call for ongoing assessment, treatment and reassessment.
Failure to Rescue
A flight nurse illustrates her definition of best practices.
Raising the Stakes
Multidisciplinary team collaborates to eliminate pressure ulcers.
Changing Minds, Changing Practice
Sutter Roseville Medical Center follows seven steps to eliminate catheter-related bloodstream infections.
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