Sustainable Quality Management - You Know It, But Do You Have It?

Do you know quality care when you see it?

The mission of the Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) is to promote excellence in oncology nursing and quality cancer care, but have you ever considered how that mission comes to life in your daily practice? Just as it can be challenging to describe the essence of nursing practice beyond listing specific tasks we perform each day, it may be difficult to routinely identify high-quality care. Our tim...

Leadership: do you have what it takes?

Do you have what it takes?

The Childhood Apraxia of Speech Intensive Training Institute (Apraxia Bootcamp) was designed as a means by which our organization could strategically identify and intensively train qualified and interested speech-language pathologists in order to BOOST their clinical expertise in the diagnosis and treatment of CAS. It is intended to provide North American-based speech-language pathologists, who...

Professionalism: hard to measure but you know it when you see it

Professionalism: hard to measure but you know it when you see it I n 1992, the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) convened a committee, which produced a white paper entitled Project Professionalism (1). chaired the committee. The paper emphasized values and ethics standards that would be required for board certification (2). It also pointed out that suboptimal professional behavior nega...

It Ain’t What You Do (But the Way That You Do It): Will Safety II Transform the Way We Do Patient Safety; Comment on “False Dawns and New Horizons in Patient Safety Research and Practice”

Mannion and Braithwaite outline a new paradigm for studying and improving patient safety – Safety II. In this response, I argue that Safety I should not be dismissed simply because the safety management strategies that are developed and enacted in the name of Safety I are not always true to the original philosophy of ‘systems thinking.’