Patient unit safety and care quality
Subtitle: promotion of self-healing systems during hospital stays
By: Huey-Ming Tzeng and Chang-Yi Yin (authors).
Contributors: Yin, Chang-Yi, 1944-
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781604566703
Subjects: Hospitals -- Safety measures; Hospital patients -- Wounds and injuries -- Prevention; Medical errors -- Prevention; Hospitals; Safety Management -- methods; Accidental Falls -- prevention & control; Medical Errors -- prevention & control
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Demanding a safe hospital stay; title: The caring philosophy in acute hospital settings; title: No safety, no quality: initiatives for promoting patient safety in hospitals; title: Problematic patient safety areas in hospitals; title: Inpatient falls; title: Health care-associated pressure ulcers; title: Serious injury or death in physical restraints or seclusion; title: Inpatient suicide; title: Medication errors; title: Transfusion errors; title: Wrong-site surgery; title: Treatment delays; title: Operative and postoperative errors and complications; title: Health care-associated infections; title: The impact of hospital human resource management on patient outcomes; title: Unsafe design of patient rooms; title: Say no to poor care safety I: poor communication among health care providers; title: Say no to poor care safety II: incorrect patient identification in the process of providing care; title: Learning the facts from research I: the family involvement culture in the US hospital environment; title: Learning the facts from research II: historical human resource issues related to hospital nursing; title: Learning the facts from research III: the linkage between nurse staffing and inpatient fall rates.