Library Guides: Professional Practice Skills: Patient Safety

Patient Safety

Change of Shift: Hand-off: Clinical Skills Essentials Collection (Video Duration: 8 minutes)
This videos covers how to hand-off patients to incoming staff at a shift change.
Source: Elsevier, 2021.
Ensuring Oxygen Safety: Clinical Skills Essentials Collection (Video Duration 2 minutes)
This video clip covers how to ensure safety during use of oxygen.
Source: Elsevier, 2021.
National Patient Safety Goals 2020 (Video Duration: 29 minutes)
This video provides an overview of the Joint Commission's seven National Patient Safety Goals 2020. It covers improving patient identification and communication, safe use of medicine and alarms, prevention of infection, identification of patient safety risks, and prevention of mistakes in surgery.
Source: Medcom, 2020.
The applied phlebotomy video series. Part I, Basic venipuncture (Video Duration: 43 minutes)
Detailed demonstrations include performing venipunctures using tube holders, syringes and winged blood collection sets. Emphasis is placed on needlestick safety, proper patient identification, preventing patient injury, and obtaining specimens free from errors that can alter results.
Source: Center for Phlebotomy Education, 2018

Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)
Safety Competencies Framework
Source: Canadian Patient Safety Institute (2020)
National Patient Safety Goals
For a variety of health care settings.
Source: The Joint Commission (U.S.)

Patient Safety
A peer-reviewed journal of the Patient Safety Authority, an independent state agency that collects reports of patient safety events from Pennsylvania healthcare facilities. The Authority’s mission is to improve the quality of healthcare in Pennsylvania, and beyond, by collecting and analyzing patient safety information, developing solutions to patient safety issues, and sharing this information through education and collaboration. This journal supports those efforts as a venue by publishing open access, peer-reviewed articles highlighting original research, advanced analytics, and hot topics in healthcare.
Coverage: 2019-
Journal of Patient Safety
The Journal of Patient Safety, an academic, peer-reviewed journal, is a new venue dedicated to both rigorous research and field application articles covering to all areas of patient safety and quality health care.
Coverage: 2005-