Nursing Quality & Safety

Unique online collection of videos related to medical errors, training, and prevention.

Unique online collection of videos created specifically for the education and training of nurses, nursing assistants, and other healthcare workers.

Provides guidelines for people to follow when prescribed an antibiotic and explains ways that inpatients can lower the risk of contracting a hospital-acquired infection. Illustrates measures being taken by hospital personnel to keep their patients safe.

Addresses the main components of the JCAHO mandate requiring all hospitals to implement emergency management planning.Outlines the major steps of the Joint Commission mandate; describes the principal types of mass casualty events; provides an understanding of basic procedures of emergency drills; lists the areas of a hospital that must have emergency power backup; and more.

Explores the vital role that personal values play in ethical situations, how to best understand and address value conflicts, the importance of a nurse’s self-regard, and key steps to sound, ethical decision-making. Viewers learn about the JCAHO mandate that health care institutions address ethical issues related to patient care.

Offers quick instruction on a wide range of health care improvement topics. Includes discussion questions, learning objectives, and a facilitator guide to deepen the learning in a group setting.​​​

Raises urgent and challenging questions whenever it covers the health care field. Confronts ethical dilemmas and complex issues in medicine today. Through in-depth reporting and interviews with doctors, nurses, patients, and other experts, examines case studies, scientific breakthroughs, and connections between corporate and public policy.

Illustrates ways for hospitalized individuals—regardless of their background or education level—to monitor what is happening to them and make sure all appropriate safety measures have been taken. Viewers learn how to maintain basic awareness when facing surgery, anesthesia, IV’s, medication, and more. Includes commentary from Dr. William Hendee of the National Patient Safety Foundation and Dr. Lucian Leape of the Harvard School of Public Health.

With the staggering variety of pharmaceuticals available today, training in correct drug administration is more important than ever. This program serves to build skills and awareness that will ensure the safe and accurate administration of medicines by health care personnel, as well as by the layperson. It examines factors that lead to medication errors, explores methods of prevention, and features educational guidelines that help clarify best practices.

Examines New York’s tough performance reports on doctors and hospitals doing open-heart surgery; profiles a pioneering effort by a VA hospital in Kentucky to confront medical errors; and shows breakthrough quality improvement drives in northern New England and Utah.

Watch Methods come alive! Over 500 videos in this collection.