Geetha Jayaram

Practicing Patient Safety in Psychiatry (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Practicing Patient Safety in Psychiatry is an expertly written, ready-to-use practical book on patient safety that focuses on how to carefully (and courteously) treat patients in psychiatric care settings. Focusing on issues of clinical leadership, strategic planning, and how to prevent lapses, oversights and errors, Practicing Patient Safety in Psychiatry is designed for easy reading and reference. Building upon case-based questions and guidance, Dr. Geetha Jayaram and her team of contributors provide extensive clinical experience to highlight patient care aspects that are most problematic for practicing clinicians and nurses who wish to improve upon the culture of safety in their respective units of service.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199971930
• Artikelnr.: 43078190

Autorenporträt

Dr. Geetha Jayaram has been the Physician Advisor for the Department of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Hospital for 21 years, and the Chair of the International Patient Safety committee for the American Psychiatric Association. Dr. Jayaram is an outstanding clinician who has taught patient safety to residents and faculty for two decades. She is a pioneer in the field of psychiatric patient safety, and has been invited to teach safety both nationally and internationally for many years.

Inhaltsangabe

* Foreword
Joel Yager * Chapter 1
Introduction to Patient Safety
Geetha Jayaram * Chapter 2
The Physician Advisor's Role in Contemporary Psychiatry
Geetha Jayaram * Chapter 3
Hand
offs in Psychiatry
Geetha Jayaram * Chapter 4
Suicide Risk Management and Prevention
Geetha Jayaram * Chapter 5
Medication Errors in Psychiatry: An Examination of Error Proneness of Psychotropic Medications
Geetha Jayaram and Brian Pinto * Chapter 6
Safety Considerations for Electroconvulsive Therapy
Irving Reti, Melinda Walker, Kathy Pulia, Geetha Jayaram, and Frank Mondimore * Chapter 7
Psychiatric Problems in Patients in the General Hospital
O. Joseph Bienvenu and Geetha Jayaram * Chapter 8
Avoiding Restraints and Seclusion Use
Geetha Jayaram * Chapter 9
Root Cause Analysis
Geetha Jayaram * Chapter 10
Planning for Preventing Elopements
Geetha Jayaram * Chapter 11
Miscellaneous Problems in Patient Safety
Geetha Jayaram