Overview

Improving the culture of safety in our health care institutions is an essential component of preventing or reducing errors as well as improving overall health care quality. This book presents the clinically tested Myer's Patient Safety Model for health care system leaders, middle managers, and administrators to build their patient safety program and to help sustain, renew, or obtain accreditation. The author provides detailed explanations of why medical errors still occur in accredited hospitals, and provides the much needed organization-wide steps to prevent these errors and enhance patient safety for improved outcomes. Current patient safety challenges are discussed with an emphasis on the concept of reliability. The Myers Model is examined in detail, along with current evidence for its three interrelated levels of organizational structure-the leadership (system) level, the unit (microsystem) level, and the individual level. The text includes interviews about key aspects of patient safety with three leaders of major health care accreditation programs in the U.S., Canada, and Australia. Additionally, it provides an overview of reporting systems within the U.S. and covers two essential tools for patient safety-root cause analysis and failure mode and effect analysis. The book links all aspects of patient safety with accreditation standards at the national level, and also discusses efforts to globalize accreditation criteria and procedures. Key Features: Presents a clinically tested model for building a patient safety program and helping to sustain, renew, or obtain accreditation Provides tools for use in ensuring patient safety and accreditation, including root cause analysis and failure mode and effect analysis Discusses how aggregate data inform patient safety documentation and accreditation through integrated perspectives Offers a global view of accreditation and patient safety Includes techniques to improve communication among members of health care teams

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Author:   Sharon Ann Myers
Publisher:   Springer Publishing Co Inc
Imprint:   Springer Publishing Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.369kg
ISBN:  

9780826106391

ISBN 10:   0826106390
Pages:   340
Publication Date:   20 December 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order  
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Table of Contents

Preface Section I: Overview of hospital accreditation and Patient Safety Chapter 1: Introduction to hospital accreditation processes and Patient Safety Chapter 2: Discussion of a patient safety model for patient safety and its use in accreditation efforts Chapter 3: A description of the model Section II Chapter 4: Leadership Chapter 5: Decision making Chapter 6: Role model Chapter 7: Just culture Chapter 8: Disclosure - describes why disclosure is essential to a learning organization Section III Chapter 9: Information Chapter 10: Root cause analysis Chapter 11: Failure mode and Effect Analysis Chapter 12: Accreditation and Patient Safety Chapter 14: High reliability organization Chapter 15: Organizational Architecture Chapter 16: Recommendations

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Sharon Myers, RN, MSN, MSB, FACHE, CPHQ, CHCQM, CPHRM, FAIHQ, is currently the Quality Management Officer at Midsouth Healthcare Network in the VA and is also an Adjunct Associate Nursing Professor at Vanderbilt School of Nursing.

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