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Research shows that treatment delays contribute to medical errors. This book focuses on the root causes of treatment delays and provides strategies that can help organizations improve in this area. It offers strategies to reduce overcrowding and improve patient flow.

Timing Is Everything: Strategies for Reducing Delays in Patient Care

Proper management of high-alert medications is more crucial than ever. This new book provides an in-depth, easy-to-understand analysis of how an organization can reduce the likelihood of patient harm associated with anticoagulants, insulin, and other high-risk drugs. A key part of the book focuses on strategies and process designs organizations can employ to improve high-alert medication safety. Additional topics covered in the book include: reasons and benefits of using both high-alert medications and high-alert processes (opiates, sedatives, narcotics, chemotherapy, compounded sterile products, pediatric medications); potential side effects and interactions of high-risk medications; compliance issues and safety precautions; and important components of a medication system: selection, procurement, storage, ordering, dispensing, administering, and monitoring.

High-Alert Medications: Strategies for Improving Safety

Tracer methodology is a key part of The Joint Commission on-site accreditation survey process. So what's the best way for health care professionals to learn about tracers? Practice. The Environment of Care Tracer Workbook will help health care organizations use mock (practice) tracers to identify unrecognized environment of care (EC), emergency management (EM), and life safety (LS) compliance and safety issues and implement changes as part of an ongoing improvement process before a survey takes place. This easy-to-follow practical tool offers a wealth of sample tracers (called scenarios) that address issues including safety, security, hazardous materials and waste, fire safety, medical equipment, utilities, and monitoring and improving performance--plus important EM and LS issues. Not only will the workbook help familiarize staff with all aspects of tracers, it will also serve as a resource and training tool for conducting mock tracers in any health care organization.

Environment of Care Tracer Workbook

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Written especially for nurses in all disciplines and health care settings, this second edition of The Nurses's Role in Medication Safety focuses on the hands-on role nurses play in the delivery of care and their unique opportunity and responsibility to identify potential medication safety issues. Reflecting the contributions of several dozen nurses who provided new and updated content, this book includes strategies, examples, and advice on how to; develop effective medication reconciliation processes, identify and address causes of medication errors, encourage the reporting of medication errors in a safe and just culture, apply human factors solutions to medication management issues and the implementation of programs to reduce medication errors, use technology (such as smart pumps and computerized provider order entry) to improve medication safety, and recognize the special issues of medication safety in disciplines such as obstetrics, pediatrics, geriatrics, and oncology and within program settings beyond large urban hospitals, including long term care, behavioral health care, critical access hospitals, and ambulatory care and office-based surgery.

The Nurse's Role in Medication Safety, 2nd edition

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Patient Safety Pocket Guide, Third Edition, will help keep you, the frontline health care provider, up to date on today's critical patient safety issues. Loaded with tips and tools, the Patient Safety Pocket Guide will give you the background you need to identify and prevent critical patient safety issues, including patient falls, alarm fatigue, catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI), suicide prevention, medication reconciliation and more. This pocket guide is divided into the following sections: Section 1: Infections Section 2: Medications Section 3: Falls Section 4: Pressure Ulcers Section 5: Suicide

Patient Safety Pocket Guide, Third Edition (sold in packs of 5)

Even More Mock Tracers will help health care organizations use mock (practice) tracers to identify unrecognized compliance and patient safety issues and implement changes as part of an ongoing improvement process--before a survey takes place. This easy-to-follow practical tool offers a wealth of sample tracers, called scenarios. These address issues in all domestic and international program settings: hospital and critical access hospital, ambulatory care and office-based surgery, behavioral health care, home care, and long term care, and laboratory. An additional section contains scenarios focusing on the environment of care. Not only will the workbook help familiarize staff with all aspects of tracers, it will also serve as a resource and training tool for conducting mock tracers in any health care organization. Special Features: A 10-step tutorial on how to conduct mock tracers Sample tracer questions keyed to the tracer scenarios. Worksheet template to help users develop their own mock tracers. Examples of completed mock tracer worksheets.

Even More Mock Tracers

A Guide to the Joint Commission Life Safety Standards and Related NFPA Life Safety Code Requirements By George Mills, MBA, FASHE, CEM, CHFM, CHSP, director, Department of Engineering, The Joint Commission and James K. Lathrop, FSFPE, vice president, Koffel Associates, Inc, New London/Norwich, Connecticut Written by two of the leading fire safety experts in the field, this new book explains exactly how each Joint Commission life safety (LS) standard and element of performance (EP) relates to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Life Safety Code, plus other applicable NFPA regulations. The book is designed for organizations classified as a health care occupancy. Facility managers, emergency managers, life safety experts, risk managers, and others will find this book to be an invaluable resource in sorting out and meeting Joint Commission and NFPA fire safety requirements. Key Topics: Joint Commission LS standards and NFPA Life Safety Code requirements Life safety compliance Key Features: Explanation of the LS chapter s relation to the Life Safety Code Full Joint Commission standards language; full applicable NFPA code language Authorship by nationally-recognized fire safety experts Strategies to help simplify compliance with the LS chapter and the NFPA codes Easy-to-read format Highly useable and practical layout Life Safety Code is a registered trademark of the National Fire Protection Association, Quincy, MA.

The Joint Commission/NFPA Life Safety Book for Health Care Organizations

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