Keeping patients safe : transforming the work environment of nurses / Committee on the Work Environment for Nurses and Patient Safety, Board on Health Care Services ; Ann Page, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Page, Ann.

Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on the Work Environment for Nurses and Patient Safety.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrial safety.

Medical care--Quality control.

Medical care.

Nurse and patient.

Nursing errors--Prevention.

Nursing errors.

Nursing--Safety measures.

Nursing.

Work environment--Safety measures.

Work environment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 462 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : National Academies Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Building on the revolutionary Institute of Medicine reports To Err is Human and Crossing the Quality Chasm, Keeping Patients Safe lays out guidelines for improving patient safety by changing nurses (TM) working conditions and demands. Licensed nurses and unlicensed nursing assistants are critical participants in our national effort to protect patients from health care errors. The nature of the activities nurses typically perform " monitoring patients, educating home caretakers, performing treatments, and rescuing patients who are in crisis " provides an indispensable resource in detecting and remedying error-producing defects in the U.S. health care system. During the past two decades, substantial changes have been made in the organization and delivery of health care " and consequently in the job description and work environment of nurses. As patients are increasingly cared for as outpatients, nurses in hospitals and nursing homes deal with greater severity of illness. Problems in management practices, employee deployment, work and workspace design, and the basic safety culture of health care organizations place patients at further risk. This newest edition in the groundbreaking Institute of Medicine Quality Chasm series discusses the key aspects of the work environment for nurses and reviews the potential improvements in working conditions that are likely to have an impact on patient safety.

Contents:

""Front Matter""; ""Reviewers""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Tables, Figures, and Boxes""; ""Executive Summary""; ""1 Nursing: Inseparably Linked to Patient Safety""; ""2 A Framework for Building Patient Safety Defenses into Nurses' Work Environments""; ""3 Nurses Caring for Patients: Who They Are, Where They Work, and What They Do""; ""4 Transformational Leadership and Evidence-Based Management""; ""5 Maximizing Workforce Capability""; ""6 Work and Workspace Design to Prevent and Mitigate Errors""; ""7 Creating and Sustaining a Culture of Safety""

""8 Implementation Considerations and Needed Research"" ""Appendixes""; ""Appendix A Committee Membership and Study Approach""; ""Appendix B Interdisciplinary Collaboration, Team Functioning, and Patient Safety""; ""Appendix C Work Hour Regulation in Safety-Sensitive Industries""; ""Index""

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9786610179398

9780309133272

0309133270

9781280179396

1280179392

9780309527323

0309527325

OCLC:

54797982