Editor: Ronda G Hughes, PhD, MHS,
RN.
This book explains wide
range of issues and literature regarding patient safety and quality health
care .Each of the chapters in this book is organized with a background
section and analysis of the literature. At the end of each chapter, you will
find two critical components. First, there is a “Practice Implications”
section that outlines how the evidence can be used to inform practice
changes. Second, there is a “Research Implications” section that outlines
research gaps that can be targeted by researchers and used by clinicians to
inform and guide decisions for practice.
Throughout these pages, you will find peer-reviewed discussions and
reviews of a wide range of issues and literature regarding patient
safety and quality health care. Owing to the complex nature of health
care, this book provides some insight into the multiple factors that
determine the quality and safety of health care as well as patient,
nurse, and systems outcomes. Each of these 51 chapters and 3 leadership
vignettes presents an examination of the state of the science behind
quality and safety concepts and challenges the reader to not only use
evidence to change practices but also to actively engage in developing
the evidence base to address critical knowledge gaps. Patient safety and
quality care are at the core of health care systems and processes and
are inherently dependent upon nurses. To achieve goals in patient safety
and quality, and thereby improve health care throughout this nation,
nurses must assume the leadership role.
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