The paper described the building of a nursing team in a newly built hospital.The process consists of setting up the nursing department in advance and developing rules and regulations;enhancing nurse rotations and training to enhance their professionalism; building a seamless communication to make a supportive environment and sense of belongings; enhancing education of professional spirit to train the nurses to respect their career.All these provide the hospital with solid support of nursing team building.

The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSOPSC) questionnaire was used for appraisal in a newly-built general hospital for all the nursing staff, and they were provided with a six-month safety culture training according to appraisal results.The training has elevated the positive response rate of the nursing staff towards all dimensions of patient safety culture, proving that scientific and reasonable safety culture training is conducive to nurses' perception of patient safety culture.

Invitation of patients and their families as advisors in medical activities is conducive to enhancing patient safety and medical quality, as an innovative way for hospital reform and development. By analysis of such practice of overseas hospitals, the authors recommended on introducing this practice into China. The specific recommendations included creating a social support atmosphere for patient and family as advisors, promoting patient and family engagement by hospitals, establishing a management evaluation system for the patient and family engagement, improving the comprehensive literacy level of patient and family advisors, and building an internet platform for patient and family engagement.