Download or read book Protect Yourself in the Hospital written by Thomas A. Sharon and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2003-09 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by an insider who is both a registered nurse and a legal consultant for malpractice cases, this valuable guide covers such topics as the importance of room placement, making sure the correct body part is operated on, and how to advocate for oneself or a loved one without alienating hospital staff.
Download or read book Your Patient Safety Survival Guide written by Gretchen LeFever Watson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-08-03 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each year, one out of every four hospital patients in the United States will be harmed by the care they receive. Over 400,000 will die as a result. Dr. Gretchen LeFever Watson's definitive guide empowers patients to be patient safety advocates. It takes a village to combat preventable errors and omissions that cause millions of deaths and sickness in our nation’s hospitals and care facilities. Although most of these deaths are due to human and system errors—not faulty medical decisions or diagnoses—this annual death toll—as well as the millions of additional incidents of survivable patient harm—could be cut in half through consistent use of simple and nearly cost-free safety behaviors. In Your Patient Safety Survival Guide, Gretchen LeFever Watson delivers a patient-centered blueprint on how to transform the patient-safety movement so that millions of unnecessary illnesses and deaths in hospitals, outpatient facilities, and nursing homes can be avoided. She provides key safety habits that people must learn to recognize so they can be sure hospital personnel use them during every patient encounter. She also explains how addressing the most common safety problems will set the stage for tackling a wide range of issues, including healthcare’s role in the overuse of opiate painkillers and its related heroin epidemic. Watson’s call for a more sensible societal response to medical and human error in hospitals promotes a timely and full disclosure of all mistakes—an approach that has been proven to accelerate the emotional recovery of everyone affected by patient safety events while also reducing the financial burden on hospitals, providers, and patients. Readers will learn how to: • Change behavior to catch medical errors before they result in illness or death. • Prevent the spread of dangerous infections in hospitals and other care facilities. • Leverage the power of basic safety/hygiene habits. • Eliminate mistakes during surgery and other invasive procedures. • Avoid medication errors and the overuse of opiates • Raise awareness and inspire civic action in their communities.
Download or read book Don t Be Alone in the Hospital written by Bex Wylder, M.d. and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a wake up call to the prospective hospital patient and a roadmap to protecting yourself from harm in the hospital. The author uses examples from his own experience as a large hospital insider to illustrate the types of harm that can come your way and a strategy to avoid being at risk. A list of additional resources to use in preparing for your hospital stay or your role as a patient advocate is also included.
Download or read book How to Survive a Stay in the Hospital Without Getting Killed written by Mary Lorrie Davis and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Survive a Stay in the Hospital Without Getting Killed is an easy-to-understand hospital-survival guide. This handbook explains what kinds of mistakes can and do happen in the hospital and how to prevent them from happening to you. It contains inside information and secrets as told by a nurse who has worked in various hospitals and healthcare facilities in different nursing departments, in two different states, and has "been there and done that." This book will teach you how to protect yourself, from the time you arrive at the Hospital Admissions Office to the time you leave the hospital. The subjects covered include what personal information you'll be asked to provide the hospital, what a routine day in the hospital is like, the importance of not assuming anything, how to prevent being mistaken for another patient, how to talk to the doctor(s) and other healthcare workers, how to prevent medication errors, how to protect yourself from surgical mistakes, and much more. The book also contains an Index, a Glossary of Medical Terms, a Bibliography, and a list of Useful Organizations that can help you with specific problems. This street-smart guide will be useful to patients, would-be patients, and anyone with family, friends or acquaintances they want to protect from medical mistakes or errors.
Download or read book Protect Yourself Against Contact Infection written by Professional Tape Company and published by . This book was released on 1964* with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Take This Book To The Hospital With You written by Charles B. Inlander and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1997-10-15 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed with invaluable advice for a planned or unexpected hospital stay, it arms consumers with the tools to manage the dangerous pitfalls and medical minefields of hospitalization. A People's Medical Society Book.
Download or read book Mental Hospital Survival Guide 3rd Edition written by Jason Page and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third edition includes chapters on safety measures and teaches the ropes with nursing homes / halfway houses and other options. This book is ideal for a loved one who has an onset of paranoid schizophrenia as the book is written from the perspective of someone with schizophrenia. Some of the information is limited to the scope of systems in the United States, however there is much crossover in what is expected from hospitals in other places as well.
Download or read book Protect Yourself written by First Last and published by Silver Lake Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers advice for determining areas of risk, minimizing risk, and obtaining the proper insurance coverage to compensate for losses.
Download or read book Hospital and Healthcare Security written by Tony W York and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 2009-10-12 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hospital and Healthcare Security, Fifth Edition, examines the issues inherent to healthcare and hospital security, including licensing, regulatory requirements, litigation, and accreditation standards. Building on the solid foundation laid down in the first four editions, the book looks at the changes that have occurred in healthcare security since the last edition was published in 2001. It consists of 25 chapters and presents examples from Canada, the UK, and the United States. It first provides an overview of the healthcare environment, including categories of healthcare, types of hospitals, the nonhospital side of healthcare, and the different stakeholders. It then describes basic healthcare security risks/vulnerabilities and offers tips on security management planning. The book also discusses security department organization and staffing, management and supervision of the security force, training of security personnel, security force deployment and patrol activities, employee involvement and awareness of security issues, implementation of physical security safeguards, parking control and security, and emergency preparedness. Healthcare security practitioners and hospital administrators will find this book invaluable. Practical support for healthcare security professionals, including operationally proven policies, and procedures Specific assistance in preparing plans and materials tailored to healthcare security programs Summary tables and sample forms bring together key data, facilitating ROI discussions with administrators and other departments General principles clearly laid out so readers can apply the industry standards most appropriate to their own environment NEW TO THIS EDITION: Quick-start section for hospital administrators who need an overview of security issues and best practices
Download or read book Patient Safety and Quality written by Ronda Hughes and published by Department of Health and Human Services. This book was released on 2008 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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/
Download or read book MD Medical Self Defense written by Arnaud van der Veere and published by Arnaud van der Veere. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most private clinics are growing. The expansion has positive and negative sides. One of the negative sides is that the safety of employees and staff members can be in jeopardy due to misunderstanding with customers. The customer is no longer an obedient and scared person. They know their rights and some even invent their personal rights. Worldwide we see an increase in aggression in the medical world. Patients and staff end conflicts in different ways. In extreme anger or desperation, a conflict can turn violent and even destructive. Beside an increased in killed doctors there are more assaults, stalking, damage of property and unpleasant home visits. Professionals in violence like the writer of this booklet have experience in protection and prevention. This booklet is written to give you some insight information on how to protect yourself and love ones.
Download or read book Keeping Patients Safe written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2004-03-27 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book To Err Is Human written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2000-03-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experts estimate that as many as 98,000 people die in any given year from medical errors that occur in hospitals. That's more than die from motor vehicle accidents, breast cancer, or AIDSâ€"three causes that receive far more public attention. Indeed, more people die annually from medication errors than from workplace injuries. Add the financial cost to the human tragedy, and medical error easily rises to the top ranks of urgent, widespread public problems. To Err Is Human breaks the silence that has surrounded medical errors and their consequenceâ€"but not by pointing fingers at caring health care professionals who make honest mistakes. After all, to err is human. Instead, this book sets forth a national agendaâ€"with state and local implicationsâ€"for reducing medical errors and improving patient safety through the design of a safer health system. This volume reveals the often startling statistics of medical error and the disparity between the incidence of error and public perception of it, given many patients' expectations that the medical profession always performs perfectly. A careful examination is made of how the surrounding forces of legislation, regulation, and market activity influence the quality of care provided by health care organizations and then looks at their handling of medical mistakes. Using a detailed case study, the book reviews the current understanding of why these mistakes happen. A key theme is that legitimate liability concerns discourage reporting of errorsâ€"which begs the question, "How can we learn from our mistakes?" Balancing regulatory versus market-based initiatives and public versus private efforts, the Institute of Medicine presents wide-ranging recommendations for improving patient safety, in the areas of leadership, improved data collection and analysis, and development of effective systems at the level of direct patient care. To Err Is Human asserts that the problem is not bad people in health careâ€"it is that good people are working in bad systems that need to be made safer. Comprehensive and straightforward, this book offers a clear prescription for raising the level of patient safety in American health care. It also explains how patients themselves can influence the quality of care that they receive once they check into the hospital. This book will be vitally important to federal, state, and local health policy makers and regulators, health professional licensing officials, hospital administrators, medical educators and students, health caregivers, health journalists, patient advocatesâ€"as well as patients themselves. First in a series of publications from the Quality of Health Care in America, a project initiated by the Institute of Medicine
Download or read book Protect Yourself written by Brent Laartz and published by Caribe Id, LLC. This book was released on 2016-11-28 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work, Dr. Laartz continues on his quest to educate the public how to protect themselves from infections associated with hospitals, nursing facilities, and surgical procedures. Also advice is given how to avoid infections associated with diabetes, chemotherapy, and pneumonia, as well as travel related infections such as Zika virus.
Download or read book The Patient Survival Guide written by Maryanne McGuckin and published by Demos Medical Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-02 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Foreward by Dr. Peter Pronovost"--Cover.
Download or read book Handbook of Modern Hospital Safety written by William Charney and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2009-07-28 with total page 1252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is ironic that those whose job it is to save lives often find themselves injured in the course of performing their duties. In fact, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, healthcare workers have higher injury rates than agriculture workers, miners, and construction workers. The Handbook of Modern Hospital Safety, Second Edition covers expo
Download or read book How to Survive Your Hospital Stay written by Dr. Rebecca Ford and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-09 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yes, specific survival skills may be necessary for a successful hospital stay. Many hospitals are crowded, understaffed, and sometimes impersonal; the hospital staff perhaps overworked and untrained in some aspects of patient care. Mistakes happen that can be devastating to patients and their families. Herein are ways that the patient or family member can partner with the hospital staff to achieve optimal outcomes. Specific ideas and worksheets are provided so that medications, procedures, and doctor's orders can be tracked. Dr. Rebecca Ford's insider knowledge from thirty-plus years of experience with hospital practices and procedures provide information vital for every patient.
