Addressing medical errors: an intervention protocol for nursing professionals.

Objective: To identify the types of interventions that should be included in an organizational protocol for responding to serious adverse events involving nursing staff.

Method: A descriptive exploratory study was conducted in the Autonomous Community of Madrid, Spain using a questionnaire.

Results: 248 nurses have participated.

Nursing care in postwar Madrid.

Objective: To describe the work of the Salus Infirmorum Sisterhood in caring for the most underprivileged individuals from the postwar outskirts of Madrid, through the voluntary service of the nurses who were part of that Institution.

Methods: A historical study based on the analysis of primary sources from the Sisterhood's archives.

Results: Salus Infirmorum once relied on more than 100 volunteer nurses who treated over 425-thousand people in 21 parish dispensaries located within the neediest neighborhoods of Madrid, providing both preventative and curative medical care.