Welcome to Nurses section of The Joint Commission website.  This section will feature and news and information as well as safety and quality issues important to the nursing community.  

The Joint Commission recognizes National Nurses Week -
May 6-12, 2008.

What's New

• Nursing Symposium: Honoring the Past, Transforming the Future - May 21-22, 2008 
  
• Nurse Educator Conference (Dartmouth) program:  Quality and Safety in Nursing Education: A Clinical Microsystems Approach - June 25-27, 2008 
  

News and Information

• Joint Commission Online

Quality and Safety

• "Improving America's Hospitals: A Report on Quality and Safety - 2007"
• 2008 National Patient Safety Goals
• "Do Not Use" List
• Universal Protocol for Wrong Site Surgery
• Patient Safety Practices Database

Additional Resources

• Nursing Advisory Council
• Healthcare at the Crossroads:  Nurse Staffing Crisis
• Report a Complaint about a health care organizations
• WikiHealthCare^TM
• Standards Online Question Form