title: Keeping patients safe: Institute of Medicine looks at transforming nurses' work environment.
abstract: In November 1999, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System, which brought to the public's attention the serious--and sometimes deadly--dangers posed by medical errors occurring in healthcare organizations. Exactly 4 years later, an IOM committee released a new report that focuses on the need to reinforce patient safety defenses in the nurses' working environments.
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000517:prevention & control*; D015969:National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, U.S., Health and Medicine Division; D009738:Nursing Service, Hospital / Q000592:standards*; D015279:Organizational Culture; D017751:Safety Management; D014481:United States; D017132:Workplace / Q000592:standards*