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With this important resource, health care leaders from the board room to the point-of-care can learn how to apply the science of safe and best practices from industry to healthcare by changing leadership practices, models of service delivery, and methods of communication.
Vols. for 1963- include as pt. 2 of the Jan. issue: Medical subject headings.
Examines the newest scientific advances in the science of safety.
With the increased emphasis on reducing medical errors in an emergency setting, this book will focus on patient safety within the emergency department, where preventable medical errors often occur. The book will provide both an overview of patient safety within health care—the 'culture of safety,' importance of teamwork, organizational change—and specific guidelines on issues such as medication safety, procedural complications, and clinician fatigue, to ensure quality care in the ED. Special sections discuss ED design, medication safety, and awareness of the 'culture of safety.'
No longer satisfied playing the role of passive recipients of care, patients and their families are becoming collaborators in choosing among the options available and designing their care continuums. Practical and timely, Patient as Partner offers advice on how to transition from a traditional provider-patient relationship to a meaningful partnership, what challenges to anticipate, and which methods have proven successful in forging new partnerships with patients. Leading clinicians define the patient-partner relationship and outline strategies for how you, your health care organization, and your patient can benefit from this new partnership dynamic.
Knowledge management goes beyond data and information capture in computerized health records and ordering systems; it seeks to leverage the experiences of all who interact in healthcare to enhance care delivery, teamwork, and organizational learning. Knowledge management - if envisioned thoughtfully - takes a systemic approach to implementation that includes the embodiment of a learning culture. Knowledge is then used to support that culture and the knowledge workers within it to encourage them to share what they know, thusly enabling their peers, their organizations and ultimately their patients to benefit from their experience to proactively dismantle hierarchy and encourage sharing about ...
In Organizational Learning and Performance: The Science and Practice of Building a Learning Culture, Ryan Smerek combines organizational examples with insights from research, to provide readers with a unique and distinctive lens to improve personal and organizational performance. The first section of the book provides an overview of what it means to learn as an individual and how individuals vary in their openness to learn. Drawing from cognitive and personality psychology, thinking dispositions such as a growth mindset, curiosity, and intellectual humility are explored and how they help foster learning in organizations. In the second section, Smerek describes the principles of a learning cu...
The Business of Nursing offers the latest insights and strategies for developing new practice skills and establishing new relationships with colleagues in and outside the nursing department.