First, Do Less Harm

Confronting the Inconvenient Problems of Patient Safety
Herausgeber: Koppel, Ross; Gordon, Suzanne

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Produktbeschreibung

Ross Koppel is on the faculty of the Sociology Department and School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, holds a faculty position at the RAND Corporation, and is the internal evaluator at Harvard Medical School as well as holding other professional affiliations. He is the author of several seminal publications on health IT in JAMA and other leading scientific journals. Suzanne Gordon is Visiting Professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing and was program leader of the Robert Wood Johnson¿funded Nurse Manager in Action Program. She is the author of Life Support and Nursing against the Odds, coauthor of Safety in Numbers and From Silence to Voice, editor of When Chicken Soup Isn¿t Enough, and coeditor of The Complexities of Care, all from Cornell.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780801450778
• ISBN-10: 0801450772
• Artikelnr.: 34563654

Autorenporträt

Ross Koppel is on the faculty of the Sociology Department and School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, holds a faculty position at the RAND Corporation, and is the internal evaluator at Harvard Medical School as well as holding other professional affiliations. He is the author of several seminal publications on health IT in JAMA and other leading scientific journals. Suzanne Gordon is Visiting Professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing and was program leader of the Robert Wood Johnson-funded Nurse Manager in Action Program. She is the author of Life Support and Nursing against the Odds, coauthor of Safety in Numbers and From Silence to Voice, editor of When Chicken Soup Isn't Enough, and coeditor of The Complexities of Care, all from Cornell.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The Data Model That Nearly Killed Me
2. Too Mean to Clean: How We Forgot to Clean Our Hospitals
3. What Goes without Saying in Patient Safety
4. Health Care Information Technology to the Rescue
5. A Day in the Life of a Nurse
6. Excluded Actors in Patient Safety
7. Nursing as Patient Safety Net: Systems Issues and Future Directions
8. Physicians, Sleep Deprivation, and Safety
9. Sleep-deprived Nurses: Sleep and Schedule Challenges in Nursing
10. Wounds That Don't Heal: Nurses' Experience with Medication Errors
11. On Teams, Teamwork, and Team Intelligence
Conclusion: Twenty-seven Paradoxes, Ironies, and Challenges
of Patient Safety