Patient Safety and Managing Risk in Nursing

Melanie Fisher, Margaret Scott, Author

• Publisher: Learning Matters
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9781446266885, 9781446266878
• eBook ISBN: 9781473904651
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Nursing

Patient safety is a predominant feature of quality healthcare and something that every patient has the right to expect.  As a nurse, you must consider the safety of the patient as paramount in every aspect of your role; and it is now an increasingly important topic in pre-registration nursing programmes. This book aims to provide you with a greater understanding of how to manage patient safety and risk in your practice. The book focuses on the essentials that you need to know, and therefore provides a clear pathway through what can sometimes seem an overwhelmingly complex mass of rules, procedures and possible options.

Key features:

·         A practical introduction to patient safety and risk management written specifically for nurses and nursing students

·         Case studies and scenarios help you to apply patient safety and risk management principles to actual practice

·         Each chapter is mapped to the relevant NMC standards and Essential Skills Clusters so that you can see how you are meeting the professional requirements

·         Activities throughout help you to think critically and reflect on practice.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword
• About the authors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 Patient safety and quality
• 2 Risk and healthcare
• 3 Accidents and incidents – what went wrong?
• 4 Medicine administration and safety
• 5 Raising concerns: safeguarding the vulnerable
• 6 The nurse: accountability and professional regulation
• 7 Human error: systems and human factors in patient safety
• 8 Measuring patient safety and satisfaction
• 9 The influence of leadership and culture in managing patient safety
• 10 Patient safety – what next?
• Glossary
• References
• Index