Jan. 20, 2014 Miriam Marcus-Smith (WPSC Program Director) and Jackie Valentine (Director, Patient Safety at Seattle Children’s) will present at the May 2014 National Patient Safety Foundation Congress on “Building Second Victim Support Programs: What we’ve learned.” Miriam and Jackie will share how the Coalition’s Second Victim work developed, including the results of a needs-assessment…

When I think of boating safety I think of things like wearing a personal flotation device (PFD), avoiding getting hit by the boom, and knowing how to call for help.

[two_third] I opened my father’s dresser drawer and was stunned to see a multitude of pill bottles, all with their caps off, some empty, and a handful of various pills lying in the drawer. “Pop, what are all these pills?” I asked. He looked at the drawer and said, “The doctor gives them to me.”…

[two_third]It’s been a long time since I helped care for someone post-op, and I learned many lessons recently. A friend of mine – let’s call him XY– had outpatient shoulder surgery on a Monday afternoon to remove bone spurs from his left shoulder; he had had similar surgery on the right shoulder about ten years…