Deborah Dolan Hunt

Broschiertes Buch

Fast Facts for Patient Safety in Nursing

Beschreibung

"Medication errors include failure to properly identify the patient, heavy workloads, staff shortages, noise and distractions, fatigue, sound alike drugs, misuse of abbreviations, an illegible prescriptions, inappropriate dosage and infusion rates, incorrect time, and poor communication during change of shift. Workload issues have been correlated with poor patient outcomes and the pandemic has certainly exacerbated the nursing and healthcare professional shortage. Unit II is focused on improving patient safety and decreasing adverse events. The third chapter focuses on ways to become a safe practitioner through education and competency development. The fourth chapter highlights several theories that can be used to promote quality of care and decrease adverse outcomes. The fifth chapter focuses on the significance of critical thinking in promoting patient outcomes and ways to develop and improve critical thinking and reasoning. Clinical judgement is an important skill and Tanner's Clinical Judgement Model has been widely used to help develop clinical judgement. The sixth chapter focuses on prioritization and delegation and ways to develop these skills in addition to scope of practice, intuition, and ethics. The seventh chapter focuses on leadership and emotional intelligence and the final chapter focuses on the issue from a holistic approach and includes cultural humility and artificial intelligence"--

Autor

Deborah Dolan Hunt, PhD, RN, is a Professor and Associate Dean of Nursing. She is also a Professor Emerita from The College of New Rochelle, and a Fellow in the New York Academy of Medicine. She is thrilled to be publishing this book and has published three prior books with Springer Publishers; The New Nurse Educator: Mastering Academe, The Nurse Professional: Leveraging Your Education for Transition into Practice, and Fast Facts About Nursing Practice: Historical Facts in a Nutshell. She is on the editorial board of DailyNurse.com. and serves on the Personalized Medicine Coalition Advisory Panel and a guest editor for Frontiers. She is an Ambassador and Reviewer with PCORI (Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute) and serves as Co-Chair of the Health and Human Services Committee at Community Board #10 where she spearheaded a healthy lifestyle initiative. She is currently serving as Co-Chair of the Talent Acquisition Committee at the Westchester County Association. She was the PI of the HRSA grant at CNR and facilitated its transfer to Mercy College and is currently serving as one of the Activity Directors for the Title V Access grants. Her research interests are in leadership, patient outcomes, new nurse transition, and mentoring. Deborah was the Interim Dean at The College of New Rochelle and led the transition of the nursing program to Mercy College. She is an alum of both The College of New Rochelle and Mercy College which shared a similar mission. Mercy College has welcomed her and the former students, faculty, staff, and administrators with welcoming arms and she appreciates the collegiality and commitment to service and excellence at all levels. In addition to academic writing, Deborah also publishes children's books, and the 2nd edition of her self-care book "Essential Oils, Teas, and Self-Care" will be released in 2022.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 191g
• ISBN-13: 9780826151551
• ISBN-10: 0826151558
• Artikelnr.: 65344354