Inter Professional Education is helping make patients safer. We need to work together. Health care is a team sport not an ego sport.

Join Peter Pronovost in the conversation about patient safety and quality at his new blog. #patientsafety tinyurl.com/pronovost

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world ... it is the only thing that ever has." M. Meade

The simplest things are most important. A warm smile brightens our day. A kind word energizes our soul. A gentle touch heals our wounds.

Hand hygiene is likely the most effective intervention to reduce healthcare acquired infections. Yet clinicians do it only 30% of the time.

We need to educate clinicians on the importance of hand hygiene, make it easy for them to wash hands and monitor performance. #ptsafety

Successes in safety and quality improvement are often short-lived: A project launches with enthusiasm, a year later it’s dead in the water.

Health care clinicians and staff are responsible for identifying and immediately correcting defects before they affect a patient

Communication and teamwork are the keys to patient safety #safety

We are currently raising money for a documentary on patient safety that will encompass the entire movement and need support #patientsafety

I just experienced great family based care in the Albany neuro ICU

“We become what we do, excellence is therefore more of a habit than a virtue,” Aristotle.

Communication is the biggest challenge facing health care today

A neurological patient with a history of hypertension almost dies from high blood pressure because her doctors didn't know her drug history

There are great safety efforts happening globally, we need to coordinate and share lessons learned #safety

Interprofessional education in health care helps build teamwork and communication at the student and clinician level #safety

Health care workers are busy people, change must be realistic and manageable if it is going to be effective at saving lives #ptsafety

The NHS' Francis Report on harms at Staffordshire Trust is a call to action for global patient safety efforts #safety

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Read -- "The Secret to Fighting Infections" at: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704364004576131963185893084.html