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Author : Ronda Hughes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Medical care
ISBN : IOWA:31858055078368
Author : Ronda Hughes
Publisher : Department of Health and Human Services
Page : 3 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Medical care
ISBN : 158763354X
"Nurses play a vital role in improving the safety and quality of patient car -- not only in the hospital or ambulatory treatment facility, but also of community-based care and the care performed by family members. Nurses need know what proven techniques and interventions they can use to enhance patient outcomes. To address this need, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), with additional funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has prepared this comprehensive, 1,400-page, handbook for nurses on patient safety and quality -- Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses. (AHRQ Publication No. 08-0043)." - online AHRQ blurb, http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nurseshdbk/
Author : Ronda Hughes
Publisher : Department of Health and Human Services
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Medical
ISBN : IOWA:31858055672798
"Nurses play a vital role in improving the safety and quality of patient car -- not only in the hospital or ambulatory treatment facility, but also of community-based care and the care performed by family members. Nurses need know what proven techniques and interventions they can use to enhance patient outcomes. To address this need, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), with additional funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has prepared this comprehensive, 1,400-page, handbook for nurses on patient safety and quality -- Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses. (AHRQ Publication No. 08-0043)." - online AHRQ blurb, http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nurseshdbk/
Author : Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Care Services,Committee on the Work Environment for Nurses and Patient Safety
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004-03-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309187367
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' 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 â€" monitoring patients, educating home caretakers, performing treatments, and rescuing patients who are in crisis â€" 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 â€" 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.
Author : Ronda Hughes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Medical care
ISBN : RUTGERS:33008005891381
Author : U. S. Department Human Services,Agency for and Quality
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1499380488
Do the working conditions of health care personnel contribute to the incidence of medical errors? This question is often raised during public discussion of ways to improve patient safety. How much do issues of nurse staffing and doctors' hours, for example, contribute to the estimated 44,000 to 98,000 deaths per year in hospitals due to medical errors? The objective of this report is to identify and summarize evidence from the scientific literature on the effects of health care working conditions on patient safety. The report also identifies relevant information from industries outside of heath care. Working conditions were classified into five categories: workforce staffing, workflow design, personal/social factors, physical environment, and organizational factors. The classification system for working conditions was derived from existing literature and advice from an expert panel. It is consistent with human factors research in multiple disciplines and industries such as aviation and nuclear power. Workforce staffing refers to job assignments and includes four principal aspects of job duties: the volume of work assigned to individuals, the professional skills required for particular job assignments, the duration of experience in a particular job category, and work schedules. Workflow design focuses on the job activities of health care workers, including interactions among workers and the nature and scope of the work as tasks are completed. Personal/social factors refer to individual and group factors such as stress, job satisfaction, and professionalism. Physical environment includes aspects of the health care workplace such as light, aesthetics, and sound. Organizational factors are structural and process aspects of the organization as a whole, such as use of teams, division of labor, and shared beliefs. The researchers developed an analytic framework to define how working conditions are related to patient safety. Antecedent conditions, which are external factors such as personal characteristics of workers and fixed structural characteristics of the system (e.g., geographic location, regulations, and legislation), can affect the impact of working conditions on patient safety. Working conditions are viewed either as resources that improve work quality or as demands that impede work quality. Working conditions potentially affect patient safety, which leads to patient outcomes. The researchers also developed a model of patient safety to help frame the key questions and provide a way to synthesize data reported in studies. The model is drawn from injury analysis and incorporates elements of both processes and outcomes. It is based on the relationships between medical errors (defined as the failure of a planned action to be completed as intended, or the use of a wrong plan) and adverse outcomes (injuries caused by health care rather than underlying disease).
Author : Annette Debisette, PhD, RN,Judith Vessey, PhD, CRNP, MBA, FAAN
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780826119032
This landmark annual review has provided nearly three decades of knowledge, insight, and research on topics critical to nurses everywhere. It critically examines the full gamut of literature on key topics in nursing practice, including nursing theory, care delivery, nursing education, and the professional aspects of nursing. Annual Review of Nursing Research has brought together internationally recognized experts in the fields of nursing, and continues to deliver the highest standards of content and authoritative reviews of research for students, researchers, and clinicians. Past volumes of ARNR have addressed critical issues such as: pediatric care, geriatrics, alcohol abuse, patient safety, rural nursing, tobacco use, and more. Key topics in this edition include: Review of research related to regulation Review of global nursing workforce issues State policy and research initiatives focused on improving nursing workforce Horizontal violence and bullying Staffing methodology in nursing Future of the workforce
Author : Sharon M. Weinstein,Mary E. Hagle
Publisher : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-02
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781451188851
The Ninth Edition of Plumer's Principles and Practice of Infusion Therapy provides clear, concise coverage of basic and advanced infusion procedures. Rely on this new edition for the most current coverage of intravenous therapy function, procedures, standards, and equipment, along with practical new features and emphasis on safety considerations, as well as evidence-based practice. The book begins with an overview of IV therapy, including how to minimize risk and enhance performance, and then addresses assessment and monitoring;clinical decision making; patient specific therapies, and infusion therapy for children, the elderly, and across the continuum of care.
Author : Clayton Ó Néill,Charles Foster,Jonathan Herring,John Tingle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-30
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781000389265
This book examines the idea of a fundamental entitlement to health and healthcare from a human rights perspective. The volume is based on a particular conceptual reasoning that balances critical thinking and pragmatism in the context of a universal right to health. Thus, the primary focus of the book is the relationship or contrast between rights-based discourse/jurisprudential arguments and real-life healthcare contexts. The work sets out the constraints that are imposed on a universal right to health by practical realities such as economic hardship in countries, lack of appropriate governance, and lack of support for the implementation of this right through appropriate resource allocation. It queries the degree to which the existence of this legally enshrined right and its application in instruments such as the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) can be more than an ephemeral aspiration but can, actually, sustain, promote, and instil good practice. It further asks if social reality and the inequalities that present themselves therein impede the implementation of laudable human rights, particularly within marginalised communities and cadres of people. It deliberates on what states and global bodies do, or could do, in practical terms to ensure that such rights are moved beyond the aspirational and become attainable and implementable. Divided into three parts, the first analyses the notion of a universal inalienable right to health(care) from jurisprudential, anthropological, legal, and ethical perspectives. The second part considers the translation of international human rights norms into specific jurisdictional healthcare contexts. With a global perspective it includes countries with very different legal, economic, and social contexts. Finally, the third part summarises the lessons learnt and provides a pathway for future action. The book will be an invaluable resource for students, academics, and policymakers working in the areas of health law and policy, and international human rights law.
Author : J. Michael Leger
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781284230932
"This text is an essential resource that addresses the financial management issues faced by nurse managers. Ideal for students, professionals, chief nursing officers, and those in nurse administrator roles, it examines the financial impact of administrative and management decisions across hospitals and healthcare organizations. The Fifth Edition was revised by a new lead author, J. Michael Leger, who brings the invaluable perspective of being both a PhD educated nurse and an MBA graduate. At its heart, this is a practical, straightforward budgeting workbook for the health care space"--
Author : Joyce J. Fitzpatrick, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006-08-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0826141382
Designated a Doody's Core Title! Supporting the urgent need for new patient safety guidelines and practices, Focus on Patient Safety, provides the most current and authoritative research and review to help decision makers develop new and much-needed standards and practices in nursing. With contributions from experts in the field, this new up-to-date reference focuses on key disciplines and topics that are critical to patient safety today including: Patient safety indicators Medication errors Falls and injury prevention Hospital-acquired infections Patient safety in acute-care units in hospitals Medications in the perioperative environment Home visit programs for the elderly Nursing homes Informatics issues Organizational, climate, and culture factors From new and emerging issues in patient safety to a review of research methods and measurement, this new 24th volume in the Annual Review of Nursing Research (ARNR) series continues to provide the highest standards of content and authoritative review of research for students, researchers, and clinicians.
Author : Gavriel Salvendy
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1754 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781118129081
The fourth edition of the Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics has been completely revised and updated. This includes all existing third edition chapters plus new chapters written to cover new areas. These include the following subjects: Managing low-back disorder risk in the workplace Online interactivity Neuroergonomics Office ergonomics Social networking HF&E in motor vehicle transportation User requirements Human factors and ergonomics in aviation Human factors in ambient intelligent environments As with the earlier editions, the main purpose of this handbook is to serve the needs of the human factors and ergonomics researchers, practitioners, and graduate students. Each chapter has a strong theory and scientific base, but is heavily focused on real world applications. As such, a significant number of case studies, examples, figures, and tables are included to aid in the understanding and application of the material covered.
Author : Liam Donaldson,Walter Ricciardi,Susan Sheridan,Riccardo Tartaglia
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783030594039
Implementing safety practices in healthcare saves lives and improves the quality of care: it is therefore vital to apply good clinical practices, such as the WHO surgical checklist, to adopt the most appropriate measures for the prevention of assistance-related risks, and to identify the potential ones using tools such as reporting & learning systems. The culture of safety in the care environment and of human factors influencing it should be developed from the beginning of medical studies and in the first years of professional practice, in order to have the maximum impact on clinicians' and nurses' behavior. Medical errors tend to vary with the level of proficiency and experience, and this must be taken into account in adverse events prevention. Human factors assume a decisive importance in resilient organizations, and an understanding of risk control and containment is fundamental for all medical and surgical specialties. This open access book offers recommendations and examples of how to improve patient safety by changing practices, introducing organizational and technological innovations, and creating effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable care systems, in order to spread the quality and patient safety culture among the new generation of healthcare professionals, and is intended for residents and young professionals in different clinical specialties.
Author : Kedar Nath Das,Jagdish Chand Bansal,Kusum Deep,Atulya K. Nagar,Ponnambalam Pathipooranam,Rani Chinnappa Naidu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 980 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789811501845
This two-volume book presents the outcomes of the 8th International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving, SocProS 2018. This conference was a joint technical collaboration between the Soft Computing Research Society, Liverpool Hope University (UK), and Vellore Institute of Technology (India), and brought together researchers, engineers and practitioners to discuss thought-provoking developments and challenges in order to select potential future directions. The book highlights the latest advances and innovations in the interdisciplinary areas of soft computing, including original research papers on algorithms (artificial immune systems, artificial neural networks, genetic algorithms, genetic programming, and particle swarm optimization) and applications (control systems, data mining and clustering, finance, weather forecasting, game theory, business and forecasting applications). It offers a valuable resource for both young and experienced researchers dealing with complex and intricate real-world problems that are difficult to solve using traditional methods.
Author : Kathleen Motacki,Kathleen Burke
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-25
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780323321150
With a strong focus on the key areas included on the NCLEX-RN Exam’s "management of care" section, Nursing Delegation and Management of Patient Care, 2nd Edition prepares you to successfully prioritize, assign, and delegate nursing care to other members of the health care team. It provides the latest information on the roles and responsibilities of the staff nurse related to the management of patient care, the core competencies required of the nurse caring for patients, as well as a wide range of leadership and management concepts nurses need to confidently manage patients within a hospital unit. This new edition is organized according to the new 2014 Magnet Standards of Practice to help you learn the skills and competencies magnet status hospitals require when hiring nurses. Learning objectives, key terms, critical thinking case scenarios, and application exercises in each chapter provide you with plenty of opportunities for review. A trusted author team with years of teaching experience in nursing leadership and management introduce current content related to the management of patient care in today’s health care setting. NEW! A new table of contents reorganized according to the 2014 Magnet Standards. NEW! Addresses the competencies of the nurse’s role with respect to the 2014 Magnet Standards. Coverage includes the latest information on the roles and responsibilities of the manager of patient care position, core competencies required of nurses caring for patients, and a wide range of management concepts new nurses need to know before entering practice. Emphasis on the NCLEX Exam "management of care" areas that you will be tested on, such as prioritization, delegation, and assignment. Clinical Corner and Evidence-Based Practice boxes within most chapters include real-world tips and advice on patient and client management, plus the latest research on practices relevant to chapter topics. NEW! End-of-chapter and Evolve NCLEX questions include analysis and application-level questions. NEW! The latest RN design gives this edition a fresh new feel that is easier to follow.