Keeping patients safe
Subtitle: transforming the work environment of nurses
By: Committee on the Work Environment for Nurses and Patient Safety, Board on Health Care Services ; Ann Page, editor.
Contributors: Page, Ann.; Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Board on Health Care Services. Committee on the Work Environment for Nurses and Patient Safety.
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 462
Subjects: Nursing -- Safety measures.; Work environment -- Safety measures.; Industrial safety.; Nursing errors -- Prevention.; Medical care -- Quality control.; Nurse and patient.; Safety Management -- organization & administration.; Nurse's Role.; Nursing Care -- organization & administration.; Workplace -- organization & administration.
Description: The Institute of Medicine presents its third study on how to keep patients safe from the combined effects of the complexities of the technologically driven, compartmentalized health care system and the fallibility of human health care providers, managers, and leadership within that system. Taking the perspective of nurses as the largest component of the health care workforce, it suggests how the work environment can provide optimum safety.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 425-435) and index.

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