Informative Articles for Patient Safety & Advocacy

Explore our collection of informative articles designed to deepen your understanding of patient safety and effective healthcare advocacy. These carefully curated resources provide essential knowledge, practical strategies, and expert insights that can help protect you and your loved ones during healthcare encounters.

Staying informed is one of the most powerful tools in preventing medical errors and ensuring quality care. We regularly update this section with new perspectives, emerging research, and valuable lessons from the field of patient safety. Bookmark this page and return often to expand your advocacy toolkit and join our community of empowered healthcare consumers.

How Do You Choose a Patient Advocate? Do You Need One?

First, you may want to decide what services you need. Here are some things to think about: Do you need someone to bathe and dress you or a family member?

Are You Thinking of Becoming a Patient Advocate?

Thinking of becoming a professional, independent patient advocate because you have cared for others and realize it may be the career for you?

One Wrong Pill: A Small Mistake with Huge Implications

What starts out as a daily task, can turn into a nightmare, revealing the terrifying reality of medication errors that can turn an ordinary day into a life-threatening crisis.

Could One Oversight in Your Health Care Put Your Life at Risk?

Imagine: After a routine visit to the hospital, you think you are on the path to recovery. But a few days later, you develop a fever and an unbearable pain in your abdomen. A trip back to the doctor revealed...

We're Resource-full!

Do you have a child going off to college or moving away? Remember, just because you pay their bills, doesn’t mean you have the right to make their medical decisions for them, even if they can’t speak for themselves.

Helping In a Time of Need

Have you ever said to someone in need of medical care, “If you need something, let me know”? This can be seen as an empty way to support someone. Can you do more?

A Medical Error

A recent report out of Ohio’s University Hospitals in Cleveland was that they made a mistake in transplanting a kidney into the wrong patient. Is this more common then we think?

The Opioid Crisis

Now we have Overdose Awareness Day and an Opioid Crisis in America. It could have very well started because of conversations that were not being had. Often,

people do not understand the medical jargon during Dr. visits.

You Have Been Warned!

There is a nursing shortage. Nurses are working harder than ever. They are there to keep us safe and when something goes wrong in our care or treatment, many blame the healthcare system and the people who work in it.