The nation's first Chief Nursing Officers (CNO) Patient Safety Leadership Forum highlighted reports on patient safety and best practices for how nurses can improve safety within hospitals. Participants of the forum developed specific recommendations, including:

• Encouraging state hospital associations to use a percentage of dues to fund patient safety programs, leveraging association members with matching funds
• Giving nurses responsibility in the development, purchase, and implementation of patient safety technology to empower them to become the architects of change
• Developing a process that transforms the work environment into a safe culture and remove unnecessary work from the nurses' responsibilities so they can focus on patient safety
• Partnering with key healthcare associations to endorse and promote a model so hospitals can learn from proven practices to train nurses to take the lead in identifying trouble areas to prevent mistakes and move patients safely through the system.