Patient Safety Culture Bundle for CEOs and Senior Leaders.

Senior healthcare leaders are the difference makers as key influencers in ushering in an organizational culture committed to patient safety. Although leaders at all levels are champions of transformation, leaders at the "top" have a unique opportunity - and a responsibility - to foster a culture that supports an organization on its journey to zero harm. Through a literature review of more than 60 resources and validation with thought leaders, national and provincial partners have developed a patient safety culture bundle for CEOs and senior healthcare leaders.

Survey of nursing perceptions of medication administration practices, perceived sources of errors and reporting behaviours.

In January 2003, St. Mary's Hospital Center in Montreal, Quebec, established an interdisciplinary Committee on the Systematic Approach to Medication Error Control to review the whole process of medication administration within the hospital and to develop a systematic approach to medication error control. A cross-sectional survey on medication administration practices, perceived sources of errors and medication error reporting of nurses, adapted from a nursing practice survey and medication variance report (Sim and Joyner 2002), was conducted over a two-week period in February 2004.