Volume 7, Issue 5 (2026) Safer Together: Transforming Healthcare Safety Strategies for Patients, Healthcare Professionals, and Academic Partners

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Safer Together: A Special Nursing Issue Focusing on Safety in Health Care
Tracy A. Ortelli and Lori M. Brodie

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No Place for Workplace Violence
Ryan Sledge

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Psychological Safety Is Everyone’s Work: A Call to Practice, Education, and Leadership in Nursing
Gina Rivera

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Unheard Voices: Reducing Psychological Barriers to Publication in Nursing Research
Caryn R. Alper

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Pharmacovigilance as an Act of Awareness and Mindfulness
Mahima Silas and Hale Z. Toklu

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A Digital Safety Detection and Control System for Proactive Risk Management
Karla Miller, Jennifer Lee McAlister, Keri Melson, Gita Nadimpalli, Becca Moore, Brett Powell, Kenneth E. Sands, Mary Catherine Harris, Cali Cerami, Shanna Arnold Egloff, Yauheni Solad, and Randy Fagin

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From Restraint to CALM: A Narrative Review of Nonpharmacologic Alternatives to Physical Restraints in Adult Acute Care and Introduction of the CALM Bedside Restraint Alternatives Framework
Elizabeth Card and Brandi Puet

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Bathrooms as a Patient Safety Blind Spot in Emergency Departments: A Narrative Review and Nursing Practice Framework
Carmelo Villani

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Brief, Handoff, Backbrief, Forecast, Review: A Communication Cycle for Safer Trauma and Surgical Intensive Care Unit Transitions
Constantine Stephens and Saptarshi Biswas

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Beyond Bed Numbers: A Proposed Quality Improvement Framework for Reviewing ICU Acuity, Workload, and Medical Staffing
Raha West, Ahmed ElHaddad, Behrad Baharlo, and Parind Patel

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Making Diagnostic Uncertainty Visible at Intensive Care Unit Transitions: A Narrative Review of Diagnostic Pause Strategies
Raha West, Ahmed ElHaddad, Behrad Baharlo, and Parind Patel

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Adaptations to Medical Education in a State-Specific Abortion Ban Paradigm
Crystal Duncombe, Anthony Sciuva, Shyamalee A. Ramaraj, Douglas McGill, Jilian R. Sansbury, Jennifer Risinger, Nayda Parisio Poldiak, and William S. Hart

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A Nurse-Driven Escalation in Trauma Team Activation Reduces Mortality of Injured Patients
Darrell L. Hunt, Yingxian Liu, Jordan S. Rahm, Bailey Segura, Mercedes Huens, Emily Lopez, Esther Krinsky, Joe Spinell, and Andrea Palmer

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Laboratory Study of a Waste Anesthetic Gas Mask Scavenging System to Reduce Airborne Pathogen Exposure for Health Care Workers in Post Anesthesia Care Units
Josh Horton, Trevor Lim, Andrew Kanach, John Moenning, James McGlothlin, and Bruce M. Applegate Sr.

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Retrospective Exploratory Pre and Post Evaluation of Waste Anesthetic Gas Scavenging System and Association with Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) Nurse Health
Jessica Garibay, Dina A. Krenzischek, Ryan MacDonald, and Elizabeth Card

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Time is Brain: A Nurse-Informed Multicenter Analysis of Hospital-Based Mechanical Thrombectomy Pathway Efficiency (HASTE)
Gina M. Remington, Gita Nadimpalli, Michael Rolli, Nicki Roderman, Rebecca Cain, Sarah Pieprzyca, Debra Philpot, Elizabeth Wiggins, Edward C. Jauch, and Shanna Arnold-Egloff

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Critical Care Catalyst: The Impact of Trauma Nurse Leads on Mortality, Patient Outcomes, and Throughput
Danielle Brady, Jessica L. Brady, Hannah Dice, and Parker Hu

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Building a Culture of Safety Through Faculty Mentorship: The Peer Pairing Framework for Clinical Nurse Educators
Clare A. Chambers

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The Use of Infra-Red Spectroscopy to Assess Intact Skin of Various Skin Tones
Mary Lee A. Potter, Stacie Sosa, Charlott Polm, Sherry Campton, Wisam Salameh, Ronnie Klein, and Yaniv Cohen

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A Heuristic Tool to Enable Root Cause Analysis of Safety Events
William D. Porter, Kianca Joseph, Demitria Stafford, Kurt Larson, John Mier, Michelle Butler-Jackson, and Musaddiq Waheed

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Time to Antibiotic Administration in the Treatment of Sepsis: A Retrospective Cohort Study
Dennis Anthony Cardriche, Grayson Carter, and Thomas Matese

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Yellow Gowns for Fall Prevention: A Quality Improvement Initiative to Enhance Patient Safety
Kimberly Nathan, Obumneke Umerah, Lorenna C. Garcia-Bochas, George A. Helmrich Sr, Nayda Parisio Poldiak, and Jilian R. Sansbury

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Assessment of Hypoglycemia Management in Acute Care Hospitals
Carley Warren, Christina Wing, Chenette Burks, Brooke Schmidt, and Adam Hasse

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Thermal Skin Burns Following Infrared Vein Finder Application in Pediatric Patients: A Report of 2 Cases and Protocol Revision
Sujata S. Rawlani, Nandini Banad, Jenil Sheth, and Raja Narsingrao

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Integrating the iCare Compassionately Model into Disaster Simulation
Chelsea Baker

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A Safety Framework: Empowering Faculty to Build a Culture of Safety
Rebekah L. Randall and Sarah Woodward

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A Conceptual Framework for Clinical Quality Oversight in Telehealth-Enabled Home-Based Urgent Care
Taylor Spencer and Jason P. Williams

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Promoting Safety in Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome: A Proactive Nursing Process Framework
Julie Anne C. Comia and Elizabeth Card

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From Hired to Hands-On-Deck Status: Solving Delays in Health Care Hiring Processes and Supporting Workforce Safety Across a Large For-Profit Health System
Cynthia Skeens

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Creating a Climate of Safety: Preparing Nursing Students for Responsible Artificial Intelligence Use
Shanti Srinivas and Jennifer L. Stewart

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Advanced Practice Provider-Physician Collaboration and Medical Staff Governance: A Framework for Patient Safety
Nicolas Testa, Kaysha Hervey, and Cynthia Borum

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Trust as Public Health Infrastructure: Advancing Health Care Safety Through Risk Communication and Community Engagement
Karanvir Bhinder and Sahibpreet Bhinder

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Wave of Healing
Annemarie Dittmar

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Family Tree
Margaret J. DeMars

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Nurses' Week
Sekia Lor

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Safer Together: One Purpose, One Future
Tara Haines