December 2022-Printed Issue

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The December 2022 issue of Patient Safety is available to read and download at no charge. Our latest publication offers vital information, tools, resources, and articles that can help improve the safety and well-being of patients and healthcare workers in the new year. • Taylor et al. describea patient safety initiative that reduced the incidence of perioperative emergence delirium at a Veterans Affairs hospital (https://patientsafetyj.com/index.php/patientsaf/article/view/emergence-delirium)—and provide you with everything you need to replicate their work. • What is the past, present, and future of nursing? Nursing professor Eileen Fruchtl discusses how nursing education has been evolving and what it may become (https://patientsafetyj.com/index.php/patientsaf/article/view/nursing-education) following the pandemic, and Toothaker et al. look at the challenges recently graduated nurses face as they transition into the workforce (https://patientsafetyj.com/index.php/patientsaf/article/view/nurse-transition). • John Olsen et al. describe the success and impact of Jefferson Health’s peer support program, RISE (https://patientsafetyj.com/index.php/patientsaf/article/view/Jefferson-rise) (Resilience in Stressful Events). • Abigail Baluyot et al. share communication problems they identified in patient hand-offs between hospitals and skilled nursing facilities (https://patientsafetyj.com/index.php/patientsaf/article/view/hospital-snf-communication), and what they did to improve the process. This issue also includes an important safety alert about the risk of air embolism during cardiac ablation procedures (https://patientsafetyj.com/index.php/patientsaf/article/view/air-embolism), an update to acute care reporting rates in Pennsylvania last year (https://patientsafetyj.com/index.php/patientsaf/article/view/2021-data-update), and an inside look at how prison systems in Pennsylvania deliver healthcare to inmates (how%20prison%20systems%20in%20Pennsylvania%20deliver%20healthcare%20to%20inmates). Patient Safety is fully open access (no fees for authors or readers). We welcome submissions from all over the world. If your work can help advance patient safety, please submit it to us for consideration (https://patientsafetyj.com/for-authors), and kindly share our journal with friends, family, colleagues, and caregivers.