Patient Safety & Quality Care: Textbooks

Presents a comprehensive introduction to the theory, practice, and management of performance and quality improvement processes in healthcare organizations.

With a broad focus on both the philosophy and processes of Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI), the challenges of implementation and institutionalization are addressed using examples from a variety of health care organizations, including primary care clinics, public health departments, and academic health centers.

Provides standardized processes for clinical skills and to help nursing schools and clinical practice partners keep procedural practice current.

Examines the real-world tools and techniques necessary for improving systems that affect patient care outcomes. Emphasizes the role of leadership in all aspects of quality.

Aim is to discuss the "nexus" or vital connection between nursing and prevention of harm to patients.

Take an evidence-based approach that prepares nurses to be leaders at all levels.

Focuses on the interface between the patient and the healthcare system as the entryway to high-quality care and improved outcomes.

Designed to help bridge the divide between real-world healthcare operations and research-quality methods.

Aims to teach the key principles of patient safety to a diverse audience: physicians, nurses, pharmacists, other healthcare providers, quality and safety professionals, risk managers, hospital administrators, and others.