ABSTRACT
The current international health care safety movement is often considered to have started with publication of the Institute of Medicine report To Err Is Human (Institute of Medicine [IOM], 2000). This call to reduce errors and associated morbidity and mortality, bolstered by shocking statistics, galvanized clinicians, researchers, and health care leaders. Despite slim mention of nursing in the report, nurse researchers heeded the call, especially since To Err Is Human appeared on the heels of widespread restructuring in Western health care systems that often led to reduced nurse staffing.
