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Fast Facts for Patient Safety in Nursing (Paperback)
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Fast Facts for Patient Safety in Nursing (Paperback)
Series: Fast Facts
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This practical resource helps nurses develop the skills they need
to avoid medical errors and promote patient safety. Based on the
most current research and guidance from principal
scientific/academic boards, the text identifies the most
significant errors and their causes and describes how nurses can
develop and improve critical thinking, logic, and clinical
judgement to improve patient outcomes.This book presents an
overview of common preventable issues and their causes, including
medication errors, patient falls, pressure ulcers, infections, and
surgical errors. It focuses on strategies for becoming a safe
practitioner through education and competency development, while
highlighting major national safety initiatives with improved
outcomes. This Fast Facts discusses several theories that promote
quality of care and concrete methods for fostering critical
thinking and reasoning. It examines prioritization and delegation
as a way to develop skills in addition to scope of practice,
intuition, ethics, leadership, and emotional intelligence. The
final chapter addresses patient safety using a holistic approach
encompassing cultural humility and artificial intelligence. Each
chapter includes an introduction, learning objectives, an
illustrative case vignette, discussion questions, concise "tips
from the field," special topics, Fast Facts boxes, suggested
assignments, and resources for further study. Key Features: Helps
nurse managers to prioritize and address specific safety and
medical errors immediately Delivers practical tips on improving
patient care and outcomes Provides step-by-step guidance on
preventing medication errors-the leading cause of adverse events
Presents multiple strategies to develop critical thinking and
judgment Offers interviews with patient safety experts for context
and application Includes case studies, tips from the field, Fast
Facts boxes, tables, discussion questions, suggested assignments,
and more
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