Legally mandated nurse-to-patient ratios are one of the most controversial topics in health care today. Ratio advocates believe that minimum staffing levels are essential for quality care, better working conditions, and higher rates of RN recruitment and retention that would alleviate the current global nursing shortage. Opponents claim that ratios will unfairly burden hospital budgets, while reducing management flexibility in addressing patient needs.
Safety in Numbers is the first book to examine the arguments for and against ratios. Utilizing survey data, interviews, and other original research, Suzanne Gordon, John Buchanan, and Tanya Bretherton weigh the cost, benefits, and effectiveness of ratios in California and the state of Victoria in Australia, the two places where RN staffing levels have been mandated the longest. They show how hospital cost cutting and layoffs in the 1990s created larger workloads and deteriorating conditions for both nurses and their patients—leading nursing organizations to embrace staffing level regulation. The authors provide an in-depth account of the difficult but ultimately successful campaigns waged by nurses and their allies to win mandated ratios. Safety in Numbers then reports on how nurses, hospital administrators, and health care policymakers handled ratio implementation.
With at least fourteen states in the United States and several other countries now considering staffing level regulation, this balanced assessment of the impact of ratios on patient outcomes and RN job performance and satisfaction could not be timelier. The authors' history and analysis of the nurse-to-patient ratios debate will be welcomed as an invaluable guide for patient advocates, nurses, health care managers, public officials, and anyone else concerned about the quality of patient care in the United States and the world.
Описание: Pocket sized and practical, this handbook is the ideal guide to support frontline staff and trainees, as well as all allied professionals in the name of patient safety. It will aim to demystify what is often seen as a complex topic, helping doctors understand the methods needed to provide safe care.
Описание: How do we learn to risk, to trust, to pursue wholeness and excellence-to run with the horses and live life at its best? In a series of profound reflections on the life of Jeremiah the prophet, Eugene Peterson explores the heart of what it means to be fully and genuinely human. This special commemorative edition includes a new preface from Peterson`s son and a six-session Bible study guide.
As a student in a healthcare profession, you have probably heard of the concept of high reliability as a means to reduce harm, enhance quality, and improve outcomes. Patient safety and quality are of increasing importance to consumers, payers, providers, and organizations. As a large majority of the workforce, nurses are on the front lines of the delivery and provision of safe and effective care. The quest for high reliability must permeate an organization by way of leadership commitment, a culture of safety, continuous quality improvement, and every person's focus within the organization. This student workbook is designed as a companion to the primary textbook, High Reliability Organizations: A Healthcare Handbook for Patient Safety & Quality (2nd ed.), which explains how high reliability contributes to organizational quality and safety, recommends quality and safety activities based on high reliability principles, and integrates high reliability principles into healthcare practice.
PURPOSE AND STRUCTURE
The purpose of this workbook is to provide learning activities that relate to each chapter in the book. These learning activities introduce students to high reliability, explain the concepts of high reliability and high reliability organizations (HROs), provide examples of what the concepts would look like in
everyday practice, and describe the information and tools nurses and other healthcare providers need for the organization to become an HRO. The first 26 chapters provide one accompanying learning activity, whereas the last five chapters provide context for the summative or final learning activity.
Every learning activity reflects the content of its accompanying chapter. Students should read the chapter and supplemental materials and, if specified, focus on certain sections within the chapter prior to completing an exercise. Students may complete all these learning activities, but some instructors may choose only one or two from each chapter that meet the objectives of a particular course. Each learning activity begins with objectives, contains accompanying resource material or additional external resources, and has learning activity exercise-specific instructions. Nurses represent the majority of healthcare workers and are on the front lines of delivery and provision of safe and effective care. As a result, nurses are ideally situated to drive the mission to achieve high reliability in healthcare. It is our hope that the student workbook will prepare you to apply HRO principles to patient safety and quality problems in your place of practice because we all benefit from a safer healthcare environment.
Автор: Leape, Lucian L. Название: Making healthcare safe ISBN: 3030711250 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030711252 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 5589.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Indeed, the book emphasizes how the growing awareness of systems-design thinking and the self-education and commitment to improving patient safety, by not only Dr. Leape but a wide range of other clinicians and health executives from both the private and public sectors, all converged to drive forward the patient safety movement in the US.
Автор: Govindarajan, Raghav, Md (university Of Missouri, Columbia, Usa) Название: Improving patient safety ISBN: 1032475773 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781032475776 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 4592.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Based on the IOM`s estimate of 44,000 deaths annually, medical errors rank as the eighth leading cause of death in the U.S. Clearly medical errors are an epidemic that needs to be contained. Despite these numbers, patient safety and medical errors remain an issue for physicians and other clinicians. This book bridges the issues related to patien
Автор: Altenstetter, Christa Название: Medical Devices ISBN: 1412806909 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781412806909 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Latino, Robert J. Название: Patient Safety ISBN: 1420087274 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781420087277 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 17609.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Giustina De Silvestro, Arianna Veronesi, Maria Vicarioto Название: Transfusion Medicine and Patient Safety ISBN: 3110286971 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110286977 Издательство: Walter de Gruyter Рейтинг: Цена: 6499.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Transfusional medicine is a young discipline, whereas the AB0 system was discovered only at the beginning of the last century, and that the neonatal haemolytic disease has been described in the middle of the 20th century.
Автор: Wachter Название: Understanding Patient Safety ISBN: 0071765786 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780071765787 Издательство: McGraw-Hill Рейтинг: Цена: 5833.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Suitable for anyone seeking to learn the core clinical, organizational, and systems issues of patient safety, this book is filled with cases and analyses, as well as tables, graphics, references, and tools. It is designed to make the patient safety field understandable to medical, nursing, pharmacy, hospital administration, and other trainees.
Автор: Salem Название: Quality Measures ISBN: 3030371441 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030371449 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 13974.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: While the healthcare system continues to shift towards more emphasis on quality metrics, there remains a substantial gap between the expectations of healthcare policies and standards of hospital administrations vs.
Welcome to the instructor's guide for the second edition of High Reliability Organizations: A Healthcare Handbook for Patient Safety & Quality. This guide is designed to be a resource for educators in a variety of academic settings in courses focused on patient safety or quality management in nursing, health services administration, or clinical programs. This instructor's guide is divided into three sections:
Unit 1: Using the Textbook for Teaching and Learning
Unit 2: Resources for Teaching High Reliability for Patient Safety and Quality
Unit 3: Chapter Learning Activities and Instructor Support
This guide provides suggestions to guide faculty, nurse leaders, clinical staff nurses, quality and safety staff, or other healthcare professionals who are teaching others about the application of HRO principles to patient safety and quality problems using the second edition of High Reliability Organizations: A Healthcare Handbook for Patient Safety & Quality. For academic faculty, the chapter-by-chapter learning activities will help facilitate student learning about application of high reliability to patient safety and quality and can be used as part of a patient safety and quality course at a variety of academic levels.
The student workbook contains the same chapter-by-chapter learning activities found in the instructor's guide. The instructor's guide contains supplemental materials including learning activity implementation strategies and student evaluation sections. There are several completed examples of fill-in responses or answers for instructors as well. A summative learning activity is included that gives instructors the opportunity to assess student ability to translate high reliability principles into practice.
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