Association of Patient and Family Reports of Hospital Safety Climate With Language Proficiency in the US.

Importance: Patients with language barriers have a higher risk of experiencing hospital safety events. This study hypothesized that language barriers would be associated with poorer perceptions of hospital safety climate relating to communication openness.

Objective: To examine disparities in reported hospital safety climate by language proficiency in a cohort of hospitalized children and their families.

Organizational structures and processes in nurse-led, evidence-based practice projects that lead to measurable outcomes: a scoping review protocol.

Objective: The objective of this scoping review is to describe health care organizational structures and processes that support implementation of nurse-led, evidence-based practice projects resulting in improvements in outcome measures.

Introduction: Many health care organizations claim to support evidence-based practice methodology; however, a gap exists between knowledge generation and its use in routine clinical practice. This scoping review protocol will examine the status of organizational factors impacting implementation of evidence-based practices and reported outcomes.