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very healthcare worker fears "alarm
fatigue," the potentially deadly hazard
where workers tune out alerts from
monitors, ventilators and other machines due
to their ubiquity. Could the same type of phe-
nomenon be responsible for the overall epi-
demic of patient safety errors?
Bill Duffy, RN, MJ, CNOR, FAAN, thinks so.
And we should listen. The former VP of periop-
erative services for Evanston Hospital has seri-
ous patient-safety cred. As AORN president in
2004-2005, he led the effort to develop and pro-
mote the toolkit that ultimately morphed into
the WHO safety checklist that all surgical facilities use (or should use)
today.
Patient safety errors may sometimes occur because of incompe-
• Past president of the
Association of
periOperative
Registered Nurses
(AORN), where he led
the association's
effort to eliminate
wrong-site surgery.
• Director of the Health
Systems
Management MSN
program at Loyola
university's Marcella
Niehoff School of
Nursing.
• A renowned national
and international
lecturer, and author
of numerous articles
and chapters about
nursing leadership
and risk
management.
Speaker
Profile
The Nurse Manager's
Role in Patient Safety
William Duffy,
RN, MJ, CNOR, FAAN
Loyola university's
Marcella Niehoff
School of Nursing
Chicago, Ill.
