Errors of Omission: How Missed Nursing Care Imperils Patients - Softcover

Beatrice Kalisch, PhD, RN, FAAN

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1558106316 ISBN 13: 9781558106314

Publisher: American Nurses Association, 2015

Synopsis

It happens all the time. In the hectic pace of your daily routine as a nurse, you forget to do something. It happens to the best of us. But what matters most is learning how to mitigate the risks associated with missed nursing care. Built on 10 years of extensive research, Errors of Omission: How Missed Nursing Care Imperils Patients offers an in-depth review of the correlation between missed nursing carestandard, required nursing care that is left undoneand adverse outcomes in both patient care and nurse staff retention. Never before has this topic been addressed in this manner. Errors of Omission provides guidance to nurses and other health care professionals to help better understand the repercussions of missed nursing care. More importantly, it unveils key strategies to help you avoid making future errors of omission. This enlightening and annotative resource also includes: Key areas of missed nursing care Consequences of not providing care Methods of studying missed care The role of leadership and management in addressing missed nursing care And much more! This is a must-have book for all nurses. Staff nurses and managers will find this book extremely valuable for their work in providing the highest standards of safe and quality care. Nursing students will gain a thorough understanding of the science and value of nursing care and the associated impacts of not providing it.

About this title

About the Author:

Beatrice J. Kalisch, PhD, RN, FAAN, is the Titus Professor at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Dr. Kalisch has conducted extensive research on nursing care and has authored 11 books and over 150 peer-reviewed articles in various professional medical journals. She also serves as a member in, and a leader of, numerous local, state, and national advisory committees addressing health policy and nursing issues.

About this edition

• Publisher: American Nurses Association
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1558106316
• ISBN 13: 9781558106314
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 420