Patient safety
By: guest editor, Donna S. Watson ; consulting editor, Nancy Girard
Contributors: Lewton-Girard, Nancy J.; Association of Operating Room Nurses
Series: Perioperative nursing clinics -- v. 3, no. 4.; Perioperative nursing clinics -- v. 3, no. 4.
Publisher: Saunders/Elsevier
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Philadelphia, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9781416063360
Subjects: Patients; Safety measures; Operating room nursing; Perioperativ omvårdnad; Patientsäkerhet
Notes: Issued as: Perioperative nursing clinics, vol. 3, no. 4 (Dec. 2008).

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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Essential components for a patient safety strategy / Allan Frankel and Michael Leonard; title: Using human factors to "balance" your operating room / Chasity Burrows Walters, Aileen Killen, and Jill Garrett; title: Initiatives to improve patient safety / Alecia Cooper; title: Competence, nursing practice, and safe patient care / Linda Brazen; title: A focused review : perioperative safe medication use / Linda J. Wanzer, Rodney W. Hicks, Bradlee Goeckner, and Lisa Cole; title: Use of MEDMARX data for the support and development of perioperative medication policy / Vivian M. Devine and Sandra C. Bibb; title: Use of MEDMARX data to guide population health improvement in the perioperative setting / Christopher R. Smith and Sandra C. Bibb; title: Fire prevention in the perioperative setting : perioperative fires can occur everywhere / Claire R. Everson; title: Bloodless surgery and patient safety issues / Jarrell Fox, Sandy Brown, and Rebecca Vigil; title: Perioperative patient safety and procedural sedation / Jan Odom-Forren; title: Incidence of deep venous thrombosis in the surgical patient population and prophylactic measures to reduce occurrence / Jennifer S. Barnett and Linda J. DeCarlo; title: Preventive measures for wrong site, wrong person, and wrong procedure error in the perioperative setting / Sharon A. McNamara; title: To count or not to count : a surgical misadventure / Cecil A. King.