Patti O’Regan, DNP, ARNP, ANP, NP-C, PMHNP-BC
Nurse Practitioner
TMIT Patient Advocate Team Member
Port Richey, FL

Patti O’Regan is a Nurse Practitioner who developed the first medical errors and patient safety module incorporated into an undergraduate course curriculum in the U.S., while teaching Human Disease as an adjunct faculty member at the University of South Florida, College of Public Health. She is a Patient Advocate Leader; a founding Board Member of the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) at the AMA Consumer Advisory Board; a past executive board member of the national honor society in nursing, Sigma Theta Tau, Delta Beta chapter; a founding member of the Texas Medical Institute of Technology (TMIT) Patient Advocate Council; and a founding member of the Board of Governors, Floridians for Patient Protection. Dr. O’Regan was a co-recipient of the first Astronaut Pete Conrad Patient Safety Excellence Award. She has authored, co-authored, and been cited in journal articles and book chapters on medical error and patient safety, most recently in The Encyclopedia of Nursing Research, Third Edition, Quality Care (2012); the Journal of Patient Safety (2008; 2010); and the National Quality Forum Safe Practices for Better Healthcare (2009; 2010). Her patient safety mission has been referred to in the Wall of Silence (Gibson & Singh, 2003) and Patient Advocacy for Health Care Quality (Earp, French & Gilkey, 2007). Dr. O’Regan developed the first patient-managed patient safety tool, called the “Patient Prescription Pad (PPP),” which addresses three of the leading preventable medical errors that cause morbidity and mortality: failure-to-rescue errors, medication mistakes, and provider-caused infections. Top healthcare safety leaders endorsed the PPP, including Harvard professor Lucian Leape, MD; Ralph Speken, MD; Danae Powers, MD; and Allan Rich, founder of We Care About Kids. Dr. O’Regan, currently CEO of Village Health and in private practice in Florida, wrote a chapter titled Theories of Mental Health and Illness: Psychodynamic, Social, Cognitive, Behavioral, Humanistic and Biological Influences in the recently published textbook titled Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing (2012).