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NURS 452: Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Care for the Registered Nurse: Safety/QI Assignment

The Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare

The Joint Commission, formerly known as the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) established the Center for Transforming Healthcare in 2009.  The Center works to systematically identify critical safety and quality problems in healthcare delivery and offer solutions to correct them.  This video introduces the Center and one of its initiatives, the Hand Hygiene Project.

More videos about the Joint Commission are available on the Joint Commission's YouTube Channel.

Databases for Finding Articles that Apply Patient Safety Goals

A search using the phrase "national patient safety goals" yields useful results in the databases listed.  Please look at the search suggestions for each database by hovering over the links below.