Patient safety and managing risk in nursing / Melanie Fisher and Margaret Scott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fisher, Melanie (Lecturer in health studies), author.

Scott, Margaret (Lecturer in health studies), author.

Series:

Sage knowledge.

Transforming nursing practice

Transforming nursing practice series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical errors--Prevention.

Medical errors.

Nursing--Risk assessment.

Nursing.

Patients--Safety measures.

Patients.

Medical care--Safety measures.

Medical care.

Patient Safety.

Nurse's Role.

Risk Assessment.

Safety Management.

Medical Subjects:

Patient Safety.

Nurse's Role.

Risk Assessment.

Safety Management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (189 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

London ; Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE/Learning Matters, 2013.

Summary:

Patient safety is a predominant feature of quality healthcare and something that every patient has the right to expect. Nurses must consider the safety of the patient as paramount in every aspect of their role; and it is now an increasingly important topic in pre-registration nursing programmes. This book aims to provide nursing students and new nurses with a greater understanding of how to manage patient safety and risk in their own practice. The book focuses on the essentials that students and nurses need to know, and therefore provides a clear pathway through what can sometimes seem an overwhelmingly complex mass of rules, procedures and possible options.

Contents:

chapter 1. Patient safety and quality

chapter 2. Risk and healthcare

chapter 3. Accidents and incidents : what went wrong?

chapter 4. Medicine administration and safety

chapter 5. Raising concerns : safeguarding the vulnerable

chapter 6. The nurse : accountability and professional regulation

chapter 7. Human error : systems and human factors in patient safety

chapter 8. Measuring patient safety and satisfaction

chapter 9. The influence of leadership and culture in managing patient safety

chapter 10. Patient safety : what next?

Notes:

Part of the SAGE Knowledge collection.

"Meeting the NMC standards and essential skills clusters"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-184) and index.

Description based on MARC record for print version.

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9781526401779 (ebook) :

OCLC:

1017718812

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.