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Patient Safety

An Essential Guide
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Patient Safety by Paul Morrison and Heather Gluyas explores how healthcare professionals can enhance safety and consistency in medical processes. The book offers coaching tips, activities, scenarios, and reflective exercises to help readers apply current patient safety research in everyday practice. It emphasises the role of Human Factors in understanding human behaviour and designing systems, environments, tools, and technologies that reduce patient harm. Aligning with the WHO Patient Safety Curriculum, this text equips healthcare workers with strategies to improve care outcomes.
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This essential guide is aimed at healthcare professionals seeking practical approaches to enhance patient safety through improved understanding of human factors and system design.

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With a range of coaching tips, activities, scenarios and reflective exercises, this book enables you to translate current research on patient safety in to everyday good practice, by increasing understanding of the key concepts and helping you to develop strategies to minimise the risk of patient harm.

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How can we make healthcare processes safer and more consistent? How do we improve care outcomes for patients?

With a range of coaching tips, activities, scenarios, and reflective exercises, this book enables you to translate current research on patient safety into everyday good practice. It does so by increasing understanding of the key concepts and helping you to develop strategies to minimise the risk of patient harm.

It focuses on Human Factors to support understanding of the relationship between human behaviour and fallibility, and the design of systems and processes, environments, tools, tasks, and technology to improve patient safety.

It also reflects the WHO Patient Safety Curriculum. Patient Safety is an essential text for all healthcare professionals.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780230354968

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 December 2013

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Red Globe Press

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 12.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 214.0mm

Weight: 260g

Pages: 184

About the Author

Heather Gluyas is Lecturer in the School of Health Professions at Murdoch University, Australia, and Adjunct Professor in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at University of Notre Dame, Australia. She completed her doctoral studies in Patient Safety in 2008. Dr Gluyas lectures in the areas of Quality and Safety, Human Factors and Clinical and Corporate Governance, as well as providing consultancy nationally and internationally in the areas of Patient Safety, Human Factors, and Quality and Risk Management.

Paul Morrison is Dean of the School of Health Professions at Murdoch University in Perth, Australia. He has a long-standing interest in the education of health professionals and has worked in health care and university settings in Ireland, the UK and Australia. He is a registered nurse and a registered psychologist with an established track record of applied research and is widely published.

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