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Limiting Harm in Health Care: A Nursing Perspective

PUBLISHER Wiley-Blackwell (04/18/2003)
PRODUCT TYPE Hardcover (Hardcover)
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Limiting Harm in Health Care highlights the potential for unnecessary harm in health care practice. This harm is mostly unintentional, but it can result from many different aspects of medical treatment in a wide range of practice areas. Adverse events, events or omissions during clinical care resulting in physical or psychological injury, are increasingly being recognised as significant problems in health care.

Following clarification of the nature and extent of medical harm in health care, separate chapters explore the potential for medical harm in diverse areas of practice. Topics include problems in the use of medication, the treatment of acute heart disease, the role of hospital routine and the potentially negative role of medically dominated treatment in mental illness and palliative care. The book includes recommendations for reducing unnecessary harm within the expanding boundaries of nursing practice. The reader is challenged to assess the potential risks inherent in the health care system, to reconsider established methods of treatment, and to re-examine professional working relationships.
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ISBN-13: 9780632059966
ISBN-10: 0632059966
Binding: Hardback or Cased Book (Sewn)
Content Language: English
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Page Count: 296
Carton Quantity: 14
Product Dimensions: 6.92 x 10.06 x 0.85 inches
Weight: 1.79 pound(s)
Country of Origin: GB
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BISAC Categories
Medical | Health Care Delivery
Medical | Nursing - Management & Leadership
Medical | Administration
Dewey Decimal: 362.173
Library of Congress Control Number: 2002154162
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Limiting Harm in Health Care highlights the potential for unnecessary harm in health care practice. This harm is mostly unintentional, but it can result from many different aspects of medical treatment in a wide range of practice areas. Adverse events, events or omissions during clinical care resulting in physical or psychological injury, are increasingly being recognised as significant problems in health care.

Following clarification of the nature and extent of medical harm in health care, separate chapters explore the potential for medical harm in diverse areas of practice. Topics include problems in the use of medication, the treatment of acute heart disease, the role of hospital routine and the potentially negative role of medically dominated treatment in mental illness and palliative care. The book includes recommendations for reducing unnecessary harm within the expanding boundaries of nursing practice. The reader is challenged to assess the potential risks inherent in the health care system, to reconsider established methods of treatment, and to re-examine professional working relationships.

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Editor: Milligan, Frank
Frank Milligan earned his PhD from the University of Alberta. He was also the founding director of the Reynolds Alberta Museum, director of the New Brunswick Museum, and, since 1998, director of the Nantucket Historical Association and its properties
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