Improving Care at Correctional Facilities: Listening, Learning and Creating Change from a Patient Care Quality Office.

Correctional Health Services (CHS) became part of the Provincial Health Services Authority in British Columbia (BC) in October, 2017. There are 2,700 clients in BC in 10 facilities, and approximately 60% of these clients have mental health issues and/or substance use issues. To address healthcare quality complaints and queries for this unique setting, in keeping with provincial legislation, nursing role of the patient care quality specialist was created in 2018.

A collaborative model to introduce quality and safety content into the undergraduate nursing leadership curriculum.

Today's nursing students need an understanding of quality and safety (Q/S) concepts as well as the nurse's role in all phases of Q/S activities. Nursing students' Q/S learning experiences are typically anecdotal. This article describes a practice-academic partnership that raised students' awareness of Q/S within the practice environment.

Shielding and being shielded: children's perspectives on coping with their mother's cancer and chemotherapy.

Little research has examined children's perceptions of what it was like when their mother was diagnosed and treated with chemotherapy for breast cancer. This research aimed to describe the children's perspectives and to suggest interventions to assist children to manage the experience with less stress. Qualitative naturalistic inquiry methods were used.