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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455771103321

Titolo

Keeping patients safe [[electronic resource] ] : transforming the work environment of nurses / / Committee on the Work Environment for Nurses and Patient Safety, Board on Health Care Services ; Ann Page, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC, : National Academies Press, c2004

ISBN

1-280-17939-2

9786610179398

0-309-52732-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (484 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

PageAnn

Disciplina

362.17/3

Soggetti

Industrial safety

Medical care - Quality control

Nurse and patient

Nursing errors - Prevention

Nursing - Safety measures

Work environment - Safety measures

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

""Front Matter""; ""Reviewers""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Tables, Figures, and Boxes""; ""Executive Summary""; ""1 Nursing: Inseparably Linked to Patient Safety""; ""2 A Framework for Building Patient Safety Defenses into Nurses' Work Environments""; ""3 Nurses Caring for Patients: Who They Are, Where They Work, and What They Do""; ""4 Transformational Leadership and Evidence-Based Management""; ""5 Maximizing Workforce Capability""; ""6 Work and Workspace Design to Prevent and Mitigate Errors""; ""7 Creating and Sustaining a Culture of Safety""

""8 Implementation Considerations and Needed Research""""Appendixes""; ""Appendix A Committee Membership and Study Approach""; ""Appendix B Interdisciplinary Collaboration, Team Functioning, and Patient Safety""; ""Appendix C Work Hour Regulation



in Safety-Sensitive Industries""; ""Index""