Download or read book VA Patient Safety Program a cultural perspective at four medical facilities report to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book VA Patient Safety Program written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Va Patient Safety Program written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: VA Patient Safety Program: A Cultural Perspective at Four Medical Facilities
Download or read book VA Patient Safety Program A Cultural Perspective at Four Medical Facilities written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biological Laboratories Design and Implementation Considerations for Safety Reporting Systems written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Military Construction and Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 1500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Quality Initiatives Undertaken by the Veterans Health Administration written by Allison Percy and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the return of vets who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan and with a much larger number of vets from earlier eras who are turning to the VA for at least a portion of their health care, the VHA is now treating more than 5 million vets each year. Many have suggested that the quality of care in the vets¿ health system has been bolstered by concerted efforts to track performance measures, expand the use of health info. technology (HIT), manage chronic diseases, coordinate care by different providers, and enhance the provision of evidence-based med. practices. This report provides an assessment of quality improvement, cost and utilization of services, and health info. technology in the VHA. It examines VHA¿s experience with quality improvement and HIT.
Download or read book Quality Initiatives Undertaken by the Veterans Health Administration written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The VA is now treating more than 5 million vets each year. The quality of care in the veterans¿ health system has been bolstered by concerted efforts to track performance measures, expand the use of health IT, manage chronic diseases, coordinate care by different providers, and enhance the provision of evidence-based medical practices. This report is an assessment of quality improvement, cost and utilization of services, and health IT in the VHA. It examines VHA¿s experience with quality improvement and health IT. The assessment also aims to improve understanding of how VHA¿s system serves its patients. That info. may prove useful as decisionmakers consider how veterans¿ health care might be affected by proposals for health care reform.
Download or read book Advances in Medical Discourse Analysis written by Maurizio Gotti and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2006 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of this volume is on medical discourse, a domain of language which deserves closer scrutiny by academics as well as practitioners, due to its increasing relevance and pervasiveness in modern society. Despite the wealth of publications dealing with specialized or academic discourse and its rhetoric, few of these are devoted specifically to medical discourse. This book seeks to redress the balance by bringing together a number of studies that bear witness to the widespread interest in medical texts shown by linguists and professional communities around the world. The volume is divided into two main parts: the first targets medical discourse in its spoken dimension, while the second contains various analyses of written texts. The theoretical perspectives and individual case studies presented here reflect the wide range of methodological approaches and theoretical issues that characterise current research in the field.
Download or read book Evaluation of the Department of Veterans Affairs Mental Health Services written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approximately 4 million U.S. service members took part in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Shortly after troops started returning from their deployments, some active-duty service members and veterans began experiencing mental health problems. Given the stressors associated with war, it is not surprising that some service members developed such mental health conditions as posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, and substance use disorder. Subsequent epidemiologic studies conducted on military and veteran populations that served in the operations in Afghanistan and Iraq provided scientific evidence that those who fought were in fact being diagnosed with mental illnesses and experiencing mental healthâ€"related outcomesâ€"in particular, suicideâ€"at a higher rate than the general population. This report provides a comprehensive assessment of the quality, capacity, and access to mental health care services for veterans who served in the Armed Forces in Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation New Dawn. It includes an analysis of not only the quality and capacity of mental health care services within the Department of Veterans Affairs, but also barriers faced by patients in utilizing those services.
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 Patient Safety Handbook written by June M. Sullivan and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2008 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive guide to serving clients in a variety of healthcare settings. The book starts out by providing an overview of the key elements involved in implementing a patient safety program, and goes on to summarize each of the key patient safety requirements implemented by federal, state and accreditation agencies including the federal Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005.
Download or read book NAPA Bulletin Creating Evaluation Anthropology written by Mary Odell Butler and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2005-05-23 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAPA Bulletin is a peer reviewed occasional publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology, dedicated to the practical problem-solving and policy applications of anthropological knowledge and methods. · peer reviewed publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology · dedicated to the practical problem-solving and policy applications of anthropological knowledge and methods · most editions available for course adoption
Download or read book Patient Safety and Quality Management written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Advances in Patient Safety written by Kerm Henriksen and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: v. 1. Research findings -- v. 2. Concepts and methodology -- v. 3. Implementation issues -- v. 4. Programs, tools and products.
Download or read book Managing the Unexpected written by Karl E. Weick and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improve your company's ability to avoid or manage crises Managing the Unexpected, Third Edition is a thoroughly revised text that offers an updated look at the groundbreaking ideas explored in the first and second editions. Revised to reflect events emblematic of the unique challenges that organizations have faced in recent years, including bank failures, intelligence failures, quality failures, and other organizational misfortunes, often sparked by organizational actions, this critical book focuses on why some organizations are better able to sustain high performance in the face of unanticipated change. High reliability organizations (HROs), including commercial aviation, emergency rooms, aircraft carrier flight operations, and firefighting units, are looked to as models of exceptional organizational preparedness. This essential text explains the development of unexpected events and guides you in improving your organization for more reliable performance. "Expect the unexpected" is a popular mantra for a reason: it's rooted in experience. Since the dawn of civilization, organizations have been rocked by natural disasters, civil unrest, international conflict, and other unexpected crises that impact their ability to function. Understanding how to maintain function when catastrophe strikes is key to keeping your organization afloat. Explore the many different kinds of unexpected events that your organization may face Consider updated case studies and research Discuss how highly reliable organizations are able to maintain control during unexpected events Discover tactics that may bolster your organization's ability to face the unexpected with confidence Managing the Unexpected, Third Edition offers updated, valuable content to professionals who want to strengthen the preparedness of their organizations—and confidently face unexpected challenges.
Download or read book Resident Duty Hours written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2009-04-27 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medical residents in hospitals are often required to be on duty for long hours. In 2003 the organization overseeing graduate medical education adopted common program requirements to restrict resident workweeks, including limits to an average of 80 hours over 4 weeks and the longest consecutive period of work to 30 hours in order to protect patients and residents from unsafe conditions resulting from excessive fatigue. Resident Duty Hours provides a timely examination of how those requirements were implemented and their impact on safety, education, and the training institutions. An in-depth review of the evidence on sleep and human performance indicated a need to increase opportunities for sleep during residency training to prevent acute and chronic sleep deprivation and minimize the risk of fatigue-related errors. In addition to recommending opportunities for on-duty sleep during long duty periods and breaks for sleep of appropriate lengths between work periods, the committee also recommends enhancements of supervision, appropriate workload, and changes in the work environment to improve conditions for safety and learning. All residents, medical educators, those involved with academic training institutions, specialty societies, professional groups, and consumer/patient safety organizations will find this book useful to advocate for an improved culture of safety.
