Gives you background that you need to identify and prevent critical patient safety issues, including patient falls, alarm fatigue, catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI), suicide prevention, medication reconciliation and more. This guide is divided into the five sections: Infections, Medications, Falls, Pressure Ulcers, and Suicide.

Examines the newest scientific advances in the science of safety.

This Patient Safety Pocket Guide is intended to be an actionable reference to be used by front line clinical staff in hospital and other healthcare settings to improve their safe care practices and to keep patients safe from preventable harm. Many of these safe care practices and error-prevention techniques have been utilized for years by high reliability organizations in various industries and governmental agencies like the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The author has brought these various safe practices together in an easy to use reference guide and has modified and improved the content so that healthcare practitioners can know how and when to apply these practices in healthcare settings as "Safe Care Practices." The content for this Patient Safety Pocket Guide is drawn from - and more fully described in -- the book Five Disciplines for Zero Patient Harm, How High Reliability Happens (Mowll, C., Health Administration Press, Chicago, 2019).

Complete coverage of the core principles of patient safety Understanding Patient Safety, 2e is the essential text for anyone wishing to learn the key clinical, organizational, and systems issues in patient safety.The book is filled with valuable cases and analyses, as well as up-to-date tables, graphics, references, and tools -- all designed to introduce the patient safety field to medical trainees, and be the go-to book for experienced clinicians and non-clinicians alike. Features NEW chapter on the critically important role of checklists in medical practice NEW case examples throughout Expanded coverage of the role of computers in patient safety and outcomes Expanded coverage of new patient initiatives from the Joint Commission

Increased concern for patient safety has put the issue at the top of the agenda of practitioners, hospitals, and even governments. The risks to patients are many and diverse, and the complexity of the healthcare system that delivers them is huge. Yet the discourse is often oversimplified and underdeveloped. Written from a scientific, human factors