Josie King Care Journals in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit I am pleased to share an article that was published in the Journal of Nursing Care Quality (JNCQ),July/September 2013 – Volume 28 – Issue 3. The JNCQ is a “peer-reviewed journal that provides practicing nurses as well as nurses who have leadership roles in nursing care quality programs with useful information… the journal offers a forum for the scholarly...

Christmas in April at the Josie King Foundation April is an especially exciting month at the Josie King Foundation.  For me it is a little bit like Christmas. It is that time of year when little treats arrive in the mail, big manila envelopes filled with letters and reflection papers from nursing students who have read my book, Josie’s Story. Most of the students are about to embark on their careers. In their letters they tell me the impact...

I recently received this letter about HIPAA from a husband who believes it played a role in his wife’s death. I was saddened to read his letter, but grateful to him that he is speaking out in order to do something to improve health care in his wife’s memory. With his permission, we are sharing it with you- the patient safety community- to generate discussion. We would love to hear your thoughts. Sorrel and the Josie King Foundation Hi Sorrel:...

Hello everybody- Last month, Sorrel visited the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine to speak to a group of medical students. It was a terrific visit, and we wanted to share a med student’s perspective on Sorrel’s visit. First year med student Syed Gillani shares some interesting thoughts. Thank you, Syed! I want to tell you the story of a little girl named Josie King. She had a whole life ahead of her that was drastically cut...

Hello everybody,Lately we’ve been thinking about progress in health care- how advanced medical care has become, how we still are working towards even more advancement (particularly with regard to safety improvements), how we got to the point where we are. Knowing that there are a multitude of roads that got us to this point (i.e., evidence-based medicine and its application in the clinical setting, biotechnology, the list goes on and...