We all want to provide quality care to every woman, mother, and baby in every interaction every day in every clinical setting. We want that care to be timely, efficient, and ultrasafe. We want women and their families to be fully informed of their options, the potential risks and benefits of various procedures, and courses of care, and to actively participate in healthcare decision making. We want our care to be individualized, specific for each patient and family, and appropriate based on their culture and ethnicity. We want to avoid preventable patient harm. So how do we make these things happen on a consistent basis? We are all so busy and most of us face ongoing challenges with financial constraints. Sometimes it can seem like safety and quality care initiatives are just too time and resource consuming to be able to develop and implement as part of our daily routine, but we must, in order to provide every patient with the best care possible.
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