Download or read book Seguridad del paciente hospitalizado written by Enrique Ruelas Barajas and published by Ed. Médica Panamericana. This book was released on 2007 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cada día es mayor el desarrollo científico y tecnológico; cada vez son más las posibilidades diagnósticas y terapéuticas; pero también, cada día se tiene más conciencia del número de situaciones que, provocadas por descuidos o errores injustificados, elevan el riesgo de que los pacientes hospitalizados sufran daños, a veces severos e incluso fetales que pudieron ser prevenidos. Por ello es indispensable incorporar el tema de la seguridad de los pacientes a la agenda de análisis, reflexión y acción de las profesiones de la salud. Acorde con lo anterior, esta obra analiza las circunstancias que hace insegura la atención médica en el marco de las características específicas de las organizaciones de salud que son, por su propia naturaleza, muy complejas. Ademaás, plantea la forma de emprender acciones orientadas a lograr mejoras mediante cambios organizacionales. No obstante, ni las estrategias ni los cambios pueden ser aislados, ya que como parte de un sistema, cada hospital, cada consultorio o cada clínica están relacionados. Por ello, este texto estudia la seguridad de los pacientes a través de modelos sistémicos, que han demostrado ser innovadores y útiles para implementar mejoras en la calidad de la atención médica y, por ende, en la seguridad de los pacientes.
Download or read book La Seguridad del Paciente Un reto para la asistencia sanitaria written by and published by RC Libros. This book was released on 2012 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La seguridad del paciente es un problema grave de salud pública en todo el mundo. Se calcula que en los países desarrollados 1 de cada 10 pacientes sufre algún tipo de evento adverso durante su estancia en el hospital y este riesgo es muy superior en los países en vías de desarrollo. Por ello, la preocupación por mejorar la seguridad de los pacientes ha aumentado considerablemente en los últimos años y en la Asamblea Mundial de la Salud del año 2002, los Estados miembros de la OMS adoptaron una resolución sobre la seguridad del paciente. Las razones para mejorar la seguridad de los pacientes son poderosas. Los estudios muestran que en algunos países se han perdido entre 6.000 y 29.000 millones de dólares por año a causa de la prolongación de la estancia hospitalaria, los litigios, las infecciones nosocomiales, el lucro cesante, la discapacidad y los gastos médicos. La estrategia de actuación debe ser analizar y aprender de los eventos adversos ligados a la atención sanitaria, identificar los sucesos, reparar el daño acaecido y buscar las causas para evitar que se repitan o para reducir sus efectos, implementando prácticas seguras en todos los niveles de la prestación asistencial. El objetivo de este libro es recoger la experiencia de las Jornadas sobre la Seguridad del Paciente celebradas en el Hospital Dr. Moliner en abril de 2011, en las que distintos profesionales del centro abordaron cuestiones relacionadas con la seguridad del paciente tanto de la práctica clínica, desde una óptica multidisciplinar que abarcó la infección nosocomial, el uso seguro del medicamento, la movilización de los pacientes, los cuidados de enfermería o la implicación de los familiares en los cuidados, como de la organización en sí misma, con el fin de desarrollar una Cultura de Seguridad del Paciente en el ámbito hospitalario.
Download or read book Guia Manejo de crisis que afectan la seguridad del paciente en hospitales written by Mexico. Secretaria de Salud. Direccion General de Planeacion y Desarrollo en Salud and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crisis que afecta la seguridad del paciente: [1/2]Situacion que se encuentra fuera de control, que pone en riesgo la salud o la vida del paciente, cuyo resultado es incierto y que requiere de atencion inmediata, asi como de la instrumentacion de acciones especificas+ (AU). Contenido: 1) Introduccion. 2) Objetivos. 3) +Que es una crisis que afecta la seguridad del paciente? 4) Lo que no se debe hacer. 5) Pasos para el manejo inmediato de una crisis: integrar un equipo de atencion inmediata; concentrar informacion; analizar informacion para identificacion de cuasas y delimitar problema; identificar alternativas de solucion; proponer mensajes a transmitir; elaborar informe ejecutivo; evaluar acciones instrumentads; determinar acciones de mediano y largo plazo; instrumentar dichas acciones y evaluar impacto. 6) Requerimientos minimos para la atencion de una crisis. Anexos: Diez principios basicos para reuniones productivas; siete reglas cardinales para la comunicacion; diez mitos de la comunicacion de riesgos; carta de los derechos generales de los pacientes; carta de los derechos generales de los medicos.
Download or read book Guatemala written by Amnesty International and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book WHO Guidelines for Safe Surgery 2009 written by World Health Organization (Genève). World Alliance for Patient Safety and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confronted with worldwide evidence of substantial public health harm due to inadequate patient safety, the World Health Assembly (WHA) in 2002 adopted a resolution (WHA55.18) urging countries to strengthen the safety of health care and monitoring systems. The resolution also requested that WHO take a lead in setting global norms and standards and supporting country efforts in preparing patient safety policies and practices. In May 2004, the WHA approved the creation of an international alliance to improve patient safety globally; WHO Patient Safety was launched the following October. For the first time, heads of agencies, policy-makers and patient groups from around the world came together to advance attainment of the goal of "First, do no harm" and to reduce the adverse consequences of unsafe health care. The purpose of WHO Patient Safety is to facilitate patient safety policy and practice. It is concentrating its actions on focused safety campaigns called Global Patient Safety Challenges, coordinating Patients for Patient Safety, developing a standard taxonomy, designing tools for research policy and assessment, identifying solutions for patient safety, and developing reporting and learning initiatives aimed at producing 'best practice' guidelines. Together these efforts could save millions of lives by improving basic health care and halting the diversion of resources from other productive uses. The Global Patient Safety Challenge, brings together the expertise of specialists to improve the safety of care. The area chosen for the first Challenge in 2005-2006, was infection associated with health care. This campaign established simple, clear standards for hand hygiene, an educational campaign and WHO's first Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care. The problem area selected for the second Global Patient Safety Challenge, in 2007-2008, was the safety of surgical care. Preparation of these Guidelines for Safe Surgery followed the steps recommended by WHO. The groundwork for the project began in autumn 2006 and included an international consultation meeting held in January 2007 attended by experts from around the world. Following this meeting, expert working groups were created to systematically review the available scientific evidence, to write the guidelines document and to facilitate discussion among the working group members in order to formulate the recommendations. A steering group consisting of the Programme Lead, project team members and the chairs of the four working groups, signed off on the content and recommendations in the guidelines document. Nearly 100 international experts contributed to the document (see end). The guidelines were pilot tested in each of the six WHO regions--an essential part of the Challenge--to obtain local information on the resources required to comply with the recommendations and information on the feasibility, validity, reliability and cost-effectiveness of the interventions.
Download or read book Textbook of Patient Safety and Clinical Risk Management written by Liam Donaldson and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-14 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Implementing safety practices in healthcare saves lives and improves the quality of care: it is therefore vital to apply good clinical practices, such as the WHO surgical checklist, to adopt the most appropriate measures for the prevention of assistance-related risks, and to identify the potential ones using tools such as reporting & learning systems. The culture of safety in the care environment and of human factors influencing it should be developed from the beginning of medical studies and in the first years of professional practice, in order to have the maximum impact on clinicians' and nurses' behavior. Medical errors tend to vary with the level of proficiency and experience, and this must be taken into account in adverse events prevention. Human factors assume a decisive importance in resilient organizations, and an understanding of risk control and containment is fundamental for all medical and surgical specialties. This open access book offers recommendations and examples of how to improve patient safety by changing practices, introducing organizational and technological innovations, and creating effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable care systems, in order to spread the quality and patient safety culture among the new generation of healthcare professionals, and is intended for residents and young professionals in different clinical specialties.
Download or read book Preventing Medication Errors written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2007-01-11 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1996 the Institute of Medicine launched the Quality Chasm Series, a series of reports focused on assessing and improving the nation's quality of health care. Preventing Medication Errors is the newest volume in the series. Responding to the key messages in earlier volumes of the seriesâ€"To Err Is Human (2000), Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001), and Patient Safety (2004)â€"this book sets forth an agenda for improving the safety of medication use. It begins by providing an overview of the system for drug development, regulation, distribution, and use. Preventing Medication Errors also examines the peer-reviewed literature on the incidence and the cost of medication errors and the effectiveness of error prevention strategies. Presenting data that will foster the reduction of medication errors, the book provides action agendas detailing the measures needed to improve the safety of medication use in both the short- and long-term. Patients, primary health care providers, health care organizations, purchasers of group health care, legislators, and those affiliated with providing medications and medication- related products and services will benefit from this guide to reducing medication errors.
Download or read book Medical Emergency Teams written by Michael A. DeVita and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-07-03 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why Critical Care Evolved METs? In early 2004, when Dr. Michael DeVita informed me that he was cons- ering a textbook on the new concept of Medical Emergency Teams (METs), I was surprised. At Presbyterian-University Hospital in Pittsburgh we int- duced this idea some 15 years ago, but did not think it was revolutionary enough to publish. This, even though, our fellows in critical care medicine training were all involved and informed about the importance of “C- dition C (Crisis),” as it was called to distinguish it from “Condition A (Arrest). ”We thought it absurd to intervene only after cardiac arrest had occurred,because most cases showed prior deterioration and cardiac arrest could be prevented with rapid team work to correct precluding problems. The above thoughts were logical in Pittsburgh, where the legendary Dr. Peter Safar had been working since the late 1950s on improving current resuscitation techniques, ?rst ventilation victims of apneic from drowning, treatment of smoke inhalation, and so on. This was followed by external cardiac compression upon demonstration of its ef?ciency in cases of unexpected sudden cardiac arrest. Dr. Safar devoted his entire professional life to improvement of cardiopulmonary resuscitation. He and many others emphasized the importance of getting the CPR team to o- of-hospital victims of cardiac arrest as quickly as possible.
Download or read book Toolkit for Counseling Spanish Speaking Clients written by Lorraine T. Benuto and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely practical reference addresses the lack of Spanish-language resources for mental health professionals to use with their Latino clients. Geared toward both English- and Spanish-speaking practitioners in a variety of settings, this volume is designed to minimize misunderstandings between the clinician and client, and with that the possibility of inaccurate diagnosis and/or ineffective treatment. Coverage for each topic features a discussion of cultural considerations, guidelines for evidence-based best practices, a review of available findings, a treatment plan, plus clinical tools and client handouts, homework sheets, worksheets, and other materials. Chapters span a wide range of disorders and problems over the life-course, and include reproducible resources for: Assessing for race-based trauma. Using behavioral activation and cognitive interventions to treat depression among Latinos. Treating aggression, substance use, abuse, and dependence among Latino Adults. Treating behavioral problems among Latino adolescents. Treating anxiety among Latino children. Working with Latino couples. Restoring legal competency with Latinos. The Toolkit for Counseling Spanish-Speaking Clients fills a glaring need in behavioral service delivery, offering health psychologists, social workers, clinical psychologists, neuropsychologists, and other helping professionals culturally-relevant support for working with this under served population. The materials included here are an important step toward dismantling barriers to mental health care.
Download or read book Caring for the Hospitalized Child written by American Academy of Pediatrics. Section on Hospital Medicine and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 863 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the specific care needs of children in hospital settings, this edition provides guidance for the caregiver from the initial evaluation through post-release treatment and follow-up. Eighteen new chapters ensure coverage of the most current conditions and concerns.
Download or read book Spanish Study Guide For the National Social Work Exam written by Dr. Linton Hutchinson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-04-10 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La guia de estudio para el examen nacional del trabajo social es un libro de 550 paginas con el especifico MATERIAL CONTENIDO PARA EL EXAMEN: LA CONSTRUCCION DEL EXAMEN CAPITULO 1: DESARROLLO HUMANO CAPITULO 2: TEMAS DE DIVERSIDAD CAPITULO 3: DIAGNOSTICO Y EVALUACION CAPITULO 4: PSICOTERAPIA/PRACTICA CAPITULO 5: COMUNICACIONES CAPITULO 6: RELACIONES TERAPEUTICAS CAPITULO 7: PROFESIONALISMO/ETICA CAPITULO 8: SUPERVISION, CONSULTA Y DESARROLLO DEL PERSONAL CAPITULO 9: EVALUACION, INVESTIGACION CAPITULO 10: ENVIO DEL SERVICIO CAPITULO 11: PRACTICA/GERENCIA CAPITULO 12: EJEMPLOS DE EXAMENES CAPITULO 13: DEFINICIONES/TERMINOS
Download or read book Medical Spanish for Nurses written by Soledad Traverso, PhD and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed for those with no previous experience speaking Spanish, this guide provides nurses, other medical professionals, and students with the tools to communicate with Spanish-speaking patients. Online audio is available to provide correct pronunciation and prepare learners for a wide array of medical situations. Using a step-by-step approach with plenty of examples, the text enables readers to quickly develop their Spanish knowledge. Question and response scenarios, vocabulary quizzes, anatomy identifi cation, summary exercises, and dialogue reinforce and expedite learning. Chapters provide appropriate Spanish vocabulary, terminology, and expressions commonly used in health care interactions--as well as likely patient responses--to prepare readers for conversational Spanish. Key sections enable readers to speak with confi dence while taking a patient's history, assessing pain, conducting a physical assessment, and talking about nutrition and pediatric and adult illnesses. Tips on cultural competence are featured throughout, culminating in a comprehensive chapter on transcultural nursing and the impact of culture, belief systems, and social norms on health care delivery to diverse Spanish-speaking populations. Key Features: Requires no previous knowledge of Spanish Focuses on Spanish words and phrases needed in common health care interactions with patients Includes multiple interactive print and audio exercises to enhance learning Gives print and audio examples of common patient responses Includes examples of common conversations between health care professionals and patients Provides scripted dialogues for conducting a complete history and physical exam, performing gynecological exams, and teaching scenarios for fetal development, pregnancy, breast exams, testicular exams, and contraception
Download or read book Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment written by Alberto Pilotto and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-29 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an up-to-date review on the principles and practice of multidimensional assessment and management of the older individual, which represents the cornerstone of modern clinical practice in the elderly. The early chapters cover the main elements and scope of the comprehensive geriatric approach and explain the pathways of care from screening and case finding through to in-depth assessment and treatment planning. Subsequent chapters review the evidence of how best to apply the multidimensional assessment and management approach in defined healthcare settings and within specific clinical areas, such as cancer and surgery. Finally, the education and training challenges are reviewed and the prospects for future clinical service and research in this important field are examined. The book is very timely given the recent advances in application of this approach, which reflect the growing international realization that older people are “core business” in many clinical areas where the role of specialist geriatric medicine has hitherto been limited. Accordingly, the book will be relevant to a wide range of clinicians. The authorship comprises many of the best known and widely published experts in their respective fields.
Download or read book The Infrared Handbook written by Environmental Research Institute of Michigan. Infrared Information and Analysis Center and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 1740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Future of Nursing written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Future of Nursing explores how nurses' roles, responsibilities, and education should change significantly to meet the increased demand for care that will be created by health care reform and to advance improvements in America's increasingly complex health system. At more than 3 million in number, nurses make up the single largest segment of the health care work force. They also spend the greatest amount of time in delivering patient care as a profession. Nurses therefore have valuable insights and unique abilities to contribute as partners with other health care professionals in improving the quality and safety of care as envisioned in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) enacted this year. Nurses should be fully engaged with other health professionals and assume leadership roles in redesigning care in the United States. To ensure its members are well-prepared, the profession should institute residency training for nurses, increase the percentage of nurses who attain a bachelor's degree to 80 percent by 2020, and double the number who pursue doctorates. Furthermore, regulatory and institutional obstacles-including limits on nurses' scope of practice-should be removed so that the health system can reap the full benefit of nurses' training, skills, and knowledge in patient care. In this book, the Institute of Medicine makes recommendations for an action-oriented blueprint for the future of nursing.
Download or read book Manual of Psychiatric Care for the Medically Ill written by Antoinette Ambrosino Wyszynski and published by Elsevier España. This book was released on 2005 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manual of Psychiatric Care for the Medically Ill delivers a practical approach to accurate psychiatric diagnosis and treatment in the medical-surgical setting. Added to this edition are easy-to-use summaries, Web resources, checklists, flowcharts, and worksheets--all designed to facilitate and teach the process of psychiatric consultation.
Download or read book Global Patient Safety written by John Tingle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores patient safety themes in developed, developing and transitioning countries. It uses the concept of 'reverse innovation' as mutual learning from the chapters challenges traditional assumptions about what knowledge is produced where, and how it resides.
