Research in health care shows that work experience, communication and the organization of work are key factors in patient safety. This study draws on Reason's definitions of active and latent errors to conceptualize the complex issues that affect patient safety in the operating room. Method. The...
Patient Safety Issues In Nursing Patient’ssafetyandcareis an important facet in any health facility. That is why I‚ Susan‚ decided to take a professional approach in caring for Josie when she was admitted with severe body burns in the Hopkins hospital (King 14). In fact‚ a fair ...
Research in health care shows that work experience, communication and the organization of work are key factors in patient safety. This study draws on Reason's definitions of active and latent errors to conceptualize the complex issues that affect patient safety in the operating room. Method. The ...
Pronschinske, Lynn M
Despite more than a decade of patient safety initiatives in our health care system, nurses (N = 172) identified a large number of safety issues in the ambulatory care setting, including issues in their own practice (50.7% of the encounters), feeling rushed or hurried (34.8% of encounters),...
This chapter discusses the important connection of nursing leadership and patient safety. Nursing leadership is well positioned in healthcare organizations to drive excellence in nursing practice, promote positive culture, and focus on delivering safe patient care. This chapter identifies leadership practices...
Ultimately, longitudinal data sets will be needed to exclude the possibility that low hospital nurse staffing is the consequence, rather than the cause, of poor patient and nurse outcomes. Our findings have important implications for 2 pressing issues: patient safety and the hospital nurse shortage....
Addressing the Nursing Work Environment to Promote Patient SafetyEducationnursingpatient safetystaff ratioswork environmentTOPIC. The nursing work environment has a critical impact on patient safety. Yet confusion on the specific roles and competencies of nurses, staff ratio issues, and lack of nurse ...
- 《Issues in Mental Health Nursing》 被引量: 26发表: 1992年 Height of hospital beds and inpatient fall:A threat to patient safety Relocation to a nursing home can be stressful and may result in mental and physical illness. Appraisal, or the meaning assigned to relocation, can influenc......
A questionnaire will be conducted to evaluate the implementation of patient safety and the impact of the intervention. The data were statistically analysed using independent t tests. The intervention was the implementation of quality circles that focused on patient safety issues for the use of ...