Collaborative Education to Ensure Patient Safety

The results of a joint meeting between national advisory councils in Med. & Nursing on collaboration between physicians & nurses to enhance patient safety. It was carried out by the Council on Grad. Med. Educ. (COGME) & the Nat. Advisory Council on Nurse Educ. & Practice (NACNEP). Chapters: COGME-NACNEP recommend.; summary of collab. activities; outline of the issues; work group deliberations & suggestions to the plenary body; papers by Mary Wakefield, Harold Kaplan, Brent James, Colleen Conway-Welch, Linda Headrick, Reed Gardner, & David Swankin; annotated bibliography on nurse-physician collab. in practice, interdisciplinary education, & medical errors & error prevention.Sundwall, David N. is the author of 'Collaborative Education to Ensure Patient Safety' with ISBN 9780756723446 and ISBN 0756723442.