The Nurses Association of New Brunswick (NANB), the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA), ISMP Canada, Safer Healthcare Now!, the
Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI), Accreditation Canada and the Canadian Nurses Protective Society (CNPS) are a few examples of organizations with websites, staff, position papers and educational programs that are readily accessible, most often at no cost.
The creation of the
Canadian Patient Safety Institute and the various provincial counterpart organizations is clearly meant to serve coordination purposes, but to do so on the basis of persuasion and influence, not real power.
in partnership with the
Canadian Patient Safety InstituteThe 2004 Canadian Adverse Events Study identified adverse events arising from the delivery of health care services as a significant problem in Canadian hospitals (
Canadian Patient Safety Institute, 2008).
The council will work with the newly formed National Health Council and work closely with the
Canadian Patient Safety Institute. Dr.
* commitment to open the
Canadian Patient Safety Institute by the end of this year;
This collaborative project (phase one and phase two) is supported by the
Canadian Patient Safety Institute, Medbuy Corporation and Baxter Corporation.
In early 2008, a national stakeholder invitational roundtable, co-chaired by ISMP Canada and the
Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI), was convened in Ottawa to discuss and seek pharmaceutical manufacturer consensus on voluntary guidelines for the use of bar codes to label medications at the unit-of-use packaging level.
The Canadian Health Services Research Foundation,
Canadian Patient Safety Institute and the Canadian Nurses Association have partnered to develop the Nurse Staffing and Patient Safety Knowledge Network.
The SHN campaign has enrolled approximately 151 hospitals and health regions with more than 404 teams registered with SHN (
Canadian Patient Safety Institute, 2005).
Edmonton, Canada:
Canadian Patient Safety Institute, 2007.
The
Canadian Patient Safety Institute had calculated preventable patient safety incidents in acute care cost $397 million over a single year.