Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses

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Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses

Ronda G. Hughes

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 2008, 1,400 pagesOne free copy, hardcover and CD-ROM

The purpose of this book is to provide nurses with the best available research, thereby enabling better decisions that result in improved health care and safety practices and lead to better outcomes. Nurses often are the ones who find errors and prevent pa -tient harm. In their focus on patient safety, nurses identify critical issues and research for evidence-based practice. This book is a great resource for practicing nurses, nurse educators, re -searchers, leaders, and students.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality strongly promotes that safety and quality of health care is dependent on the availability of the best research possible and the ability to deliver results of research into the hands of practitioners, policy makers, and consumers. This text is a culmination of subject expert knowledge, practice, and research from 89 contributors who represent a broad range of nurses and senior researchers across the nation. The topics covered in this text provide

excellent background for any clinician, nurse educator, or nurse leader. The topics include

evidence-based practice,

patient-centered care,

working environment for nurses,

care models, and

patient acuity.

The chapters provide an easy-to-

understand guide and include a background section and analysis of the literature based on the topic presented. Practice implications are identified at the end of...