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of Defense: The Role of Nurses in Preventing Sentinel Events, 2nd
Edition Softbound, 174 pages
Written specially for nurses in all disciplines and health care settings - and from the best source, Joint Commission. This book focuses on the hands-on role nurses play in the delivery of care and their unique opportunity and responsibility to identify potential sentinel events. Topics include preventing medication and transfusion errors, as well as preventing suicide, falls, and treatment delays. New chapters address wrong-site surgery perinatal injuries or death, and injuries or death due to criminal events. Learn how to:
Nurses' hands-on role in the delivery of care gives them a unique opportunity and responsibility to identify the potential for sentinel events. Because of their front-line position within the systems and processes where breakdowns can cause sentinel events, nurses especially need practical information about prevention strategies. Front Line of Defense devotes chapters to nine categories of sentinel events:
Each chapter is full of examples of sentinel events and "near misses" within a variety of health care settings. In addition, Front Line of Defense includes the new safety and health care error reduction standards, which are currently effective for hospitals and are in development for other health care settings. Front Line of Defense also tackles important issues and obstacles that nurses face, including staffing, training, and culture and communication within the health care team. This is information provided especially for nurses by surveyors with special training in conducting root cause analysis.
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