Clinical support for the off-shift nurse and the graduate nurse: the clinical rock stars.

Turnover of medical-surgical nurses can be distressing and costly Establishment of the clinical resource specialist role can provide a valuable resource to off-shift RNs and have a positive impact on job satisfaction.

Nonpunitive medication error reporting: 3-year findings from one hospital's Primum Non Nocere initiative.

Objective: To identify underlying practices and attitudes on medication error occurrences and reporting practices.

Background: In response to a hospital-wide quality improvement initiative, a task force was formed to facilitate a nonpunitive culture toward reporting medication errors. To identify underlying practices and attitudes on medication errors and medication error reporting, a baseline survey was conducted.