Close your eyes and imagine this: You’re a surgical nurse in general theatre. It’s the end of a long shift and you’re scrubbed in for your last case. The surgeon has closed up the patient when you realise the instrument count is incorrect and the patient is now already in recovery. What do you do next?

In episode 16, we hear from Teresa Donnelly, who shares how this incident in general theatre started her clinical audit journey. Teresa has since revolutionised the culture of general theatre at Sligo University Hospital, improving both patient and staff safety.

Featuring: Teresa Donnelly, Director, HSE Centre of Education for Nursing and Midwifery, Sligo Leitrim W Cavan.

Hosted by Selene Daly, Clinical Audit Facilitator, HSE National Centre for Clinical Audit. Co-produced by Sheema Lughmani.

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What does perfectionism look like to you? At some point in our lives we all have experienced perfectionism in some way or another. In the extreme, perfectionist qualities can lead to significant stress and anxiety on the individual and on the team.

In this episode, Professor Eva Doherty Eva speaks with us about perfectionism in the workplace and the impact it can have on ourselves, our relationships, and patient safety.

Hosted by: Juanita Guidera, Programme Manager - Staff Engagement for Quality, National Quality and Patient Safety Directorate, HSE

Co- produced with: Sheema Lughmani, Digital Communications Officer, National Quality and Patient Safety Directorate, HSE

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If you work in patient safety, you may have heard the name Margaret Murphy. She is one of the first patient partners in Ireland and has spent her life advocating for patients, their families and healthcare staff. Margaret is the External Lead Advisor for the WHO’s World Alliance for patient safety, a network of 400 patient safety champions from 52 countries. She is the founding member of Patients for Patient Safety Ireland.

Margaret shares how she has coped with the loss of her son Kevin Murphy due to a medical error and how she used this experience for change across healthcare. In this powerful episode, Margaret speaks about what transparency and openness would have meant for her family, what it felt like to finally be heard and her thoughts on how patient partnership is improving care in Ireland.

Hosted by: Dr Maureen Flynn, Director of Nursing, Office of the Nursing and Midwifery Services Director (ONMSD), HSE.

Co-produced with Sheema Lughmani, National Quality and Patient Safety Directorate, HSE.

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