Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses (Free eBook)

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. 

link:  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK2651/

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