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Errors of omission : how missed nursing care imperils patients / Beatrice J. Kalisch, PhD, RN, FAAN.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kalisch, Beatrice J., 1943- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nursing errors.
- Nursing--Standards.
- Nursing.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xix, 395 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Silver Spring, Maryland : American Nurses Association, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Built on 10 years of extensive research, Errors of Omission: How Missed Nursing Care Imperils Patients offers an in-depth review of the correlation between missed nursing care--standard, required nursing care that is left undone--and adverse outcomes in both patient care and nurse staff retention.Never before has this topic been addressed in this manner. Errors of Omission provides guidance to nurses and other health care professionals to help better understand the repercussions of missed nursing care. More importantly, it unveils key strategies to help you avoid making future errors of omission.This is a must-have book for all nurses. Staff nurses and managers will find this book extremely valuable for their work in providing the highest standards of safe and quality care. Nursing students will gain a thorough understanding of the science and value of nursing care and the associated impacts of not providing it.
- Contents:
- Part 1: The problem
- 1. Patient safety: errors of omission
- 2. Missed nursing care
- 3. Reasons for missed nursing care
- 4. Variations in reports of missed nursing care
- 5. Missed nursing care in magnet hospitals
- 6. International missed nursing care
- 7. Missed nursing care in the operating room
- 8. Patient reports of missed nursing care
- 9. Patient outcomes of missed nursing care
- 10. Nursing staff outcomes of missed nursing care
- 11. Staffing and missed nursing care
- 12. Teamwork and missed nursing care
- Part 2: Strategies to decrease missed nursing care
- 13. Culture and leadership strategies
- 14. Teamwork strategies
- 15. Patient and family engagement
- 16. Technology strategies.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-55810-632-4
- OCLC:
- 922925936
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