Medical Mayhem Room: Enhancing Situational Awareness of Patient Safety Risks in the Hospital Setting
This article was originally published December 18, 2020 on PSQH by Marcie Metroyanis, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, Patricia Reagan Webster, PhD, CPPS, and Robert Panzer, MD Abstract Background: Medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the United States (Makary & Daniel, 2016). Situational awareness, monitoring, and remediating risks in the clinical setting are hallmarks of the high reliability necessary to prevent patient harm. Design: To enhance awareness of hazards of medical errors that jeopardize the safety of patients, we created a “Medical Mayhem Room” to simulate safety risks ...
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