© 2011 Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research Nearly a decade has passed since the Institute of Medicine released its seminal report To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System. The report described the US health care system as a decade or more behind other high-risk industries in its attention to ensuring basic safety. One recommendation was that Congress should create a center...

T hroughout the 1980s, technology enabled a sharp increase in the number of video-assisted endoscopies performed in multiple specialties. As the use of lasers and focused energy devices increased, more demands were placed on perioperative nurses to become technically adept. During the past 10 years, technology has grown exponentially, and the complexity of new devices and their applications has...

AIM This paper discusses findings from an evaluation of a training programme designed to promote collaborative, team-based approaches to improve nurse retention within health care organizations. BACKGROUND A year-long leadership training programme was designed and implemented to develop effective teams that could address retention challenges in a diverse set of organizations in Colorado rangi...

Further to Rose Mitchell's and Darren Savarimuthu's comments (letters June 20, July 4), I think they both need to look at why they wanted to be nurses in the first place.

Throughout history, the care of women's reproductive health needs has included termination of unwanted pregnancy. Unfortunately, access to safe first-trimester abortion is restricted by a lack of skilled providers. In an effort to provide data-based evidence and increase access to first-trimester abortion care in California, the University of California, San Francisco, under the auspices of the...