Milligan / Robinson Limiting Harm in Health Care
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4051-5098-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
A Nursing Perspective
E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten, E-Book
ISBN: 978-1-4051-5098-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
Limiting Harm in Health Care highlights the potential forunnecessary harm in health care practice. This harm is mostlyunintentional, but it can result from many different aspects ofmedical treatment in a wide range of practice areas. Adverseevents, events or omissions during clinical care resulting inphysical or psychological injury, are increasingly being recognisedas significant problems in health care.
Following clarification of the nature and extent of medical harmin health care, separate chapters explore the potential for medicalharm in diverse areas of practice. Topics include problems in theuse of medication, the treatment of acute heart disease, the roleof hospital routine and the potentially negative role of medicallydominated treatment in mental illness and palliative care. The bookincludes recommendations for reducing unnecessary harm within theexpanding boundaries of nursing practice. The reader is challengedto assess the potential risks inherent in the health care system,to reconsider established methods of treatment, and to re-examineprofessional working relationships.
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Maps, medicine, nurses and health care; Defining medicine, nursing and the nature of iatrogenesis; Health professions, power, knowledge and expertise, Shifting boundaries in current nursing practice; The hidden harm of drug therapy; Drugging family therapy- shifts in the care of hyperactive children; Talking harm- the medicalization of mental health practice; Disabling professions- the lay perspective; Lessons on managing risk- the medical experience; Nurse diagnosed myocardial infarction- hidden nurse work and iatrogenic risk; Talking death , talking harm; NHS Direct- the impact of information technology and shifting nurse roles; Repercussions and possible future trends- limiting iatrogenic harm.
