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Before I was a nurse, I was a soccer coach.

Blake Smith, MSN, RN FADLN, FAAN President I SPENT YEARS ON A SIDELINE teaching young athletes that success isn’t defined by one great game — it’s defined by consistency, discipline, and growth over time. We didn’t just ask, “Did we…

Hospital Workplace Violence and Safety Response

At Mount Sinai Beth Israel (MSBI), an 856-bed, full-service tertiary teaching hospital in New York City, hospital administrators recognized the need to develop a safety protocol. Based on this need, they developed the Safety Team Assessment Response (STAR) code for…

Reducing falls in hospitalized patients

Patient falls remain a serious problem in healthcare. ECRI lists “ongoing challenges with preventing falls” as one of its top 10 patient safety concerns for 2024. Consistent with previous years, falls were the most common sentinel events reported to The…