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Title First, do less harm : confronting the inconvenient problems of patient safety / edited by Ross Koppel and Suzanne Gordon.

Publication Info. Ithaca : ILR Press, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 290 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series The culture and politics of health care work
Culture and politics of health care work.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-276) and index.
Contents Introduction; 1. The Data Model That Nearly Killed Me ; 2. Too Mean to Clean: How We Forgot to Clean Our Hospitals ; 3. What Goes without Saying in Patient Safety ; 4. Health Care Information Technology to the Rescue ; 5. A Day in the Life of a Nurse; 6. Excluded Actors in Patient Safety; 7. Nursing as Patient Safety Net: Systems Issues and Future Directions ; 8. Physicians, Sleep Deprivation, and Safety ; 9. Sleep-deprived Nurses: Sleepand Schedule Challenges in Nursing; 10. Wounds That Don't Heal: Nurses' Experience with Medication Errors.
11. On Teams, Teamwork, and Team Intelligence Conclusion: Twenty-seven Paradoxes, Ironies, and Challenges of Patient Safety ; Notes; Contributors; Index.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Medical errors -- Prevention.
Medical errors -- Prevention.
Patients -- Safety measures.
Patients -- Safety measures.
Medical care -- Safety measures.
Medical care -- Safety measures.
Medical care.
Hospital care -- Safety measures.
Hospital care -- Safety measures.
Hospital care.
Patient Safety.
Health Facility Administration.
Medical Errors -- prevention & control.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Medical care.
Added Author Koppel, Ross.
Gordon, Suzanne, 1945-
Other Form: Print version: First, do less harm. Ithaca : ILR Press, 2012 (DLC) 2011044453
ISBN 9780801464072 (electronic book)
0801464072 (electronic book)
0801450772
9780801450778