Nurse leaders and faculty from across the nation and the globe engaged in visionary, sobering, and invigorating dialogue about the policies and politics of patient care and patient safety.
Speakers noted the critical importance of a series of reports from the Institute of Medicine that have helped to focus intense, national attention on the healthcare issues that have been at the top of every nurse executive's desk for decades, including patient safety, healthcare quality, and the work environment for nurses.
Combine this with the stunning, compelling research from Linda Aiken and others linking nursing variables to patient safety, and it becomes increasingly clear just how important executive nurse leaders will be in moving the national quality and safety agenda forward.
