Patient Safety

by Watson, Donna S.

• ISBN13: 9781416063360
• ISBN10: 1416063366
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-12-01
• Publisher: SAUNDERS W B CO

Summary

Perioperative nursing encompasses caring for the patient as a whole being, taking into account physiological, psychological, sociocultural, and spiritual issues. The perioperative nurse is responsible for patient safety throughout the surgery. This issue of Perioperative Nursing Clinics focuses on topics such as essential components for an effective patient safety strategy, initiatives to improve quality and safety in health care, medication error prevention in perioperative services, fire prevention, bloodless surgery and patient safety issues, moderate sedation, and preventative measure to reduce incidence of a retained foreign body.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Essential Components for a Patient Safety Strategy	p. 263
Using Human Factors to "Balance" Your Operating Room	p. 277
Initiatives to Improve Patient Safety	p. 287
Competence, Nursing Practice, and Safe Patient Care	p. 297
A Focused Review: Perioperative Safe Medication Use	p. 305
Use of MEDMARX Data for the Support and Development of Perioperative Medication Policy	p. 317
Use of MEDMARX Data to Guide Population Health Improvement in the Perioperative Setting	p. 327
Fire Prevention in the Perioperative Setting: Perioperative Fires Can Occur Everywhere	p. 333
Bloodless Surgery and Patient Safety Issues	p. 345
Perioperative Patient Safety and Procedural Sedation	p. 355
Incidence of Deep Venous Thrombosis in the Surgical Patient Population and Prophylactic Measures to Reduce Occurrence	p. 367
Preventive Measures for Wrong Site, Wrong Person, and Wrong Procedure Error in the Perioperative Setting	p. 383
To Count or Not to Count: A Surgical Misadventure	p. 395
Index	p. 401
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