An Investigation of Interruptions in Nursing Care
Author | : Joyce G. Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Nursing |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Joyce G. Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Nursing |
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Author | : Kerm Henriksen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 526 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : |
v. 1. Research findings -- v. 2. Concepts and methodology -- v. 3. Implementation issues -- v. 4. Programs, tools and products.
Author | : Joyce G. Smith |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Nursing |
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Author | : Clinta Ché Reed |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Electronic dissertations |
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Author | : Professor Robert L Wears |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2015-09-28 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1472469194 |
Properly performing health care systems require concepts and methods that match their complexity. Resilience engineering provides that capability. It focuses on a system’s overall ability to sustain required operations under both expected and unexpected conditions rather than on individual features or qualities. This book contains contributions from international experts in health care, organisational studies and patient safety, as well as resilience engineering. Whereas current safety approaches primarily aim to reduce the number of things that go wrong, Resilient Health Care aims to increase the number of things that go right.
Author | : Ronda Hughes |
Publisher | : Department of Health and Human Services |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : |
"Nurses play a vital role in improving the safety and quality of patient car -- not only in the hospital or ambulatory treatment facility, but also of community-based care and the care performed by family members. Nurses need know what proven techniques and interventions they can use to enhance patient outcomes. To address this need, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), with additional funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has prepared this comprehensive, 1,400-page, handbook for nurses on patient safety and quality -- Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses. (AHRQ Publication No. 08-0043)." - online AHRQ blurb, http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nurseshdbk/
Author | : Allison J. Terry |
Publisher | : Jones & Bartlett Learning |
Total Pages | : 391 |
Release | : 2017-06-19 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1284117588 |
Clinical Research for the Doctor of Nursing Practice, Third Edition is a must-have text focused on teaching students how to conduct research needed for their capstone project.
Author | : Alycia C. Jarvis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 99 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Emergency nursing |
ISBN | : |
The Emergency Department (ED) is characterized as being interruption driven (Brixey et al., 2008) and interruptions occur frequently in the ED (Ernst, Weiss, & Reitsema, 2013). Interruptions in this environment can have negative effects on an individual’s performance and can affect patient safety. The purpose of this descriptive observational study was to observe the frequency and sources of interruptions to nurses in the ED as they cared for patients.A descriptive observational study design was utilized to explore the frequency and sources of interruptions to nurses in the ED as they cared for patients. A convenience sample of 12 nurses working in the ED of a level II trauma center of a not-for-profit academic medical center located in a community setting in the northeast region of the United States was recruited for the study. The average age of the nurses was 39.9 years, average years of experience as an RN was 13.9, and average years of experience in the ED was nine. Each nurse consenting to participate in the study was observed for six hours to determine the frequency and sources of interruptions experienced as they cared for patients. Data collection was accomplished with a modified version of a data collection instrument designed specifically to record observations of an ED nurse’s activities. The instrument listed the sources that were known to contribute to interruptions as identified in other studies of ED nurses (Kosits & Jones, 2011; Brixey et al., 2005, 2008); the frequency of interruptions the nurse experienced, and the tasks interrupted. A total of 586 interruptions were observed over 72 hours of observations; each nurse experienced a mean of 48.83 (SD=20.16) interruptions over six hours or 8.14 (SD=3.36) interruptions per hour. The major source of interruptions to nurses was face-to face interactions with other nurses, accounting for 41.8% of all sources observed. Many interruptions were brief, lasting a mean time of 0.94 minutes. The task observed to be the most interrupted was documenting on the computer (58.2%).The results of this study support the interruptive nature of the ED to nurses, an issue that has been minimally studied. Interventions are needed to target the most frequent sources of interruptions (nurses, self, ED physicians, ED technicians, others, patients, family, and phone calls) in an effort to reduce them. Identifying and limiting unnecessary activities in an effort to decrease interruptions can enhance patient safety and the delivery of quality care.
Author | : Institute of Medicine |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 485 |
Release | : 2004-03-27 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0309187362 |
Building on the revolutionary Institute of Medicine reports To Err is Human and Crossing the Quality Chasm, Keeping Patients Safe lays out guidelines for improving patient safety by changing nurses' working conditions and demands. Licensed nurses and unlicensed nursing assistants are critical participants in our national effort to protect patients from health care errors. The nature of the activities nurses typically perform â€" monitoring patients, educating home caretakers, performing treatments, and rescuing patients who are in crisis â€" provides an indispensable resource in detecting and remedying error-producing defects in the U.S. health care system. During the past two decades, substantial changes have been made in the organization and delivery of health care â€" and consequently in the job description and work environment of nurses. As patients are increasingly cared for as outpatients, nurses in hospitals and nursing homes deal with greater severity of illness. Problems in management practices, employee deployment, work and workspace design, and the basic safety culture of health care organizations place patients at further risk. This newest edition in the groundbreaking Institute of Medicine Quality Chasm series discusses the key aspects of the work environment for nurses and reviews the potential improvements in working conditions that are likely to have an impact on patient safety.
Author | : Laura Cima |
Publisher | : Joint Commission Resources |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 2011-12 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1599406187 |
Written especially for nurses in all disciplines and health care settings, this second edition of The Nurses's Role in Medication Safety focuses on the hands-on role nurses play in the delivery of care and their unique opportunity and responsibility to identify potential medication safety issues. Reflecting the contributions of several dozen nurses who provided new and updated content, this book includes strategies, examples, and advice on how to: * Develop effective medication reconciliation processes * Identify and address causes of medication errors * Encourage the reporting of medication errors in a safe and just culture * Apply human factors solutions to medication management issues and the implementation of programs to reduce medication errors * Use technology (such as smart pumps and computerized provider order entry) to improve medication safety * Recognize the special issues of medication safety in disciplines such as obstetrics, pediatrics, geriatrics, and oncology and within program settings beyond large urban hospitals, including long term care, behavioral health care, critical access hospitals, and ambulatory care and office-based surgery