Issues of patient safety have had greatest effect when responding to failures in safety or poor performance at particular hospitals or by particular individuals. Florence Nightingale was no different. Her understanding about what we now term as patient safety grew out of her own experiences of adverse events in healthcare. She learned from those patients that died unnecessarily and she learned ...

Patient safety in the perioperative setting is determined by many interdependent factors including reliable systems, good teamwork, psychological safety, optimal communications and most crucially shared vision and goals. The necessary organizational, environmental and behavioural conditions for quality care are not new and were in fact known to Florence Nightingale as much as 150 years ago. As ...

It is an appearance of reviews on the newest books two very notorious representatives analytic and “postmetaphysical” theology in this journal, while second review refers to polemics between these trends, that incites attempt at making clear wherein their incompatibility consists anew. The author sees it peculiarities postmetaphysical philosophizing, i.e. a diffusive texture type discourse its ...