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Author : Marshall B. Kapp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780826151803
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (518 download)
Download or read book Preventing Malpractice in Long-term Care written by Marshall B. Kapp and published by . This book was released on 1987-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary E. O'Keefe
Publisher : F. A. Davis Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Nursing Practice and the Law written by Mary E. O'Keefe and published by F. A. Davis Company. This book was released on 2001 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -- Holistic presentation of the principles of law that The American Association of Nurse Attorneys (TAANA) recommends should be taught to students in nursing schools -- Covers law relevant to nurses in the practice settings they are in today, such as advanced practice nurses, home health care, long-term care, psychiatric care, and emergency care -- Includes basic forensics, life care planning, telecommunications, and correctional facilities -- Covers ethics and legal issues associated with today's health care economics -- Pedagogical features include chapter objectives, an introduction from a historical perspective, and chapter glossary in a box; key terms are boldface the first time they are used in a definition -- Each chapter ends with list of key points, bibliography, ans suggested references -- Workbook section with perforated pages at the end of the book includes study questions for content review, learning activities, and case studies with critical thinking questions
Author : Andrew David Weinberg, MD, FACP
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0826197957
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Risk Management in Long-Term Care written by Andrew David Weinberg, MD, FACP and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 1997-10-10 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical, effective, and thorough risk management tool, this book helps health professionals address common problem areas in order to avoid litigation. Potential risk topics covered include: injury from physical restraint, resident abuse and neglect, infection control, polypharmacy and medication use, falls, and much more. The volume also features valuable information on how to respond to legal claims. Each chapter concludes with 10 tips for the reader. The appendixes contain case studies with questions for discussion and a useful resource list of organizations. This handy guide is indispensable to administrators, nurses, and physicians, as well as students of health administration. "Risk Management and Long Term Care is full of case examples, specific suggestions and recommended policies and procedures to follow in providing quality care and thereby managing risk." -from the foreword --James L. Wilkes, II, Esq.
Author : T.L. Leaman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1489911219
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (899 download)
Download or read book Preventing Malpractice written by T.L. Leaman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is possible to increase cost-effectiveness and lower the risk of lawsuits while improving patient care and office morale. In this revolutionary work, the authors, a seasoned primary care physician and an experienced defense attorney, detail risk management techniques and introduce the concept of co-active medicine. Their book will provide practical guidance for all primary care physicians, and will serve as an invaluable resource for risk management consultants and malpractice attorneys.
Author : Mary Eleanore O'Keefe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780803606036
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Nursing Practice and the Law written by Mary Eleanore O'Keefe and published by . This book was released on 2000-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -- Holistic presentation of the principles of law that The American Association of Nurse Attorneys (TAANA) recommends should be taught to students in nursing schools -- Covers law relevant to nurses in the practice settings they are in today, such as advanced practice nurses, home health care, long-term care, psychiatric care, and emergency care -- Includes basic forensics, life care planning, telecommunications, and correctional facilities -- Covers ethics and legal issues associated with today's health care economics -- Pedagogical features include chapter objectives, an introduction from a historical perspective, and chapter glossary in a box; key terms are boldface the first time they are used in a definition -- Each chapter ends with list of key points, bibliography, and suggested references -- Workbook section with perforated pages at the end of the book includes study questions for content review, learning activities, and case studies with critical thinking questions
Author : Margaret C. Jasper
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780379113730
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Nursing Home Negligence written by Margaret C. Jasper and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unfortunately, abuse and neglect in the nursing home setting has become a widespread problem, Nursing Home Negligence presents an overview of the nursing home system in America, including types of nursing homes, the level of care offered, and information on selecting an appropriate facility. This book also explores the problem of nursing home negligence and abuse, and the ways to recognize and address these problems. The legislation developed to prevent nursing home neglect and abuse is also discussed, including the legal rights of the nursing home resident, and the remedies available under the law. The Legal Almanac series serves to educate the general public on a variety of legal issues pertinent to everyday life and to keep readers informed of their rights and remedies under the law. Each volume in the series presents an explanation of a specific legal issue in simple, clearly written text, making the Almanac a concise and perfect desktop reference tool. All volumes provide state-by-state coverage. Selected state statutes are included, as are important case law and legislation, charts and tables for comparison.
Author : Ronda Hughes
Publisher : Department of Health and Human Services
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Patient Safety and Quality written by Ronda Hughes and published by Department of Health and Human Services. This book was released on 2008 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nurses play a vital role in improving the safety and quality of patient car -- not only in the hospital or ambulatory treatment facility, but also of community-based care and the care performed by family members. Nurses need know what proven techniques and interventions they can use to enhance patient outcomes. To address this need, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), with additional funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has prepared this comprehensive, 1,400-page, handbook for nurses on patient safety and quality -- Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses. (AHRQ Publication No. 08-0043)." - online AHRQ blurb, http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nurseshdbk/
Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309377722
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Improving Diagnosis in Health Care written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2015-12-29 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Getting the right diagnosis is a key aspect of health care - it provides an explanation of a patient's health problem and informs subsequent health care decisions. The diagnostic process is a complex, collaborative activity that involves clinical reasoning and information gathering to determine a patient's health problem. According to Improving Diagnosis in Health Care, diagnostic errors-inaccurate or delayed diagnoses-persist throughout all settings of care and continue to harm an unacceptable number of patients. It is likely that most people will experience at least one diagnostic error in their lifetime, sometimes with devastating consequences. Diagnostic errors may cause harm to patients by preventing or delaying appropriate treatment, providing unnecessary or harmful treatment, or resulting in psychological or financial repercussions. The committee concluded that improving the diagnostic process is not only possible, but also represents a moral, professional, and public health imperative. Improving Diagnosis in Health Care, a continuation of the landmark Institute of Medicine reports To Err Is Human (2000) and Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001), finds that diagnosis-and, in particular, the occurrence of diagnostic errorsâ€"has been largely unappreciated in efforts to improve the quality and safety of health care. Without a dedicated focus on improving diagnosis, diagnostic errors will likely worsen as the delivery of health care and the diagnostic process continue to increase in complexity. Just as the diagnostic process is a collaborative activity, improving diagnosis will require collaboration and a widespread commitment to change among health care professionals, health care organizations, patients and their families, researchers, and policy makers. The recommendations of Improving Diagnosis in Health Care contribute to the growing momentum for change in this crucial area of health care quality and safety.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309084342
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Elder Mistreatment written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2003-02-06 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the late 1970s when Congressman Claude Pepper held widely publicized hearings on the mistreatment of the elderly, policy makers and practitioners have sought ways to protect older Americans from physical, psychological, and financial abuse. Yet, during the last 20 years fewer than 50 articles have addressed the shameful problem that abusersâ€"and sometimes the abused themselvesâ€"want to conceal. Elder Mistreatment in an Aging America takes a giant step toward broadening our understanding of the mistreatment of the elderly and recommends specific research and funding strategies that can be used to deepen it. The book includes a discussion of the conceptual, methodological, and logistical issues needed to create a solid research base as well as the ethical concerns that must be considered when working with older subjects. It also looks at problems in determination of a report's reliability and the role of physicians, EMTs, and others who are among the first to recognize situations of mistreatment. Elder Mistreatment in an Aging America will be of interest to anyone concerned about the elderly and ways to intervene when abuse is suspected, including family members, caregivers, and advocates for the elderly. It will also be of interest to researchers, research sponsors, and policy makers who need to know how to advance our knowledge of this problem.
Author : James W. Saxton
Publisher : HC Pro, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1601460406
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Satisfied Patient written by James W. Saxton and published by HC Pro, Inc.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reduce malpractice claims with proven patient satisfaction tools and techniques!Why physicians need a resource like this RIGHT NOW. These days, physicians cannot be careful enough. Medical malpractice insurance premiums are through the roof. Pay for performance and other measures that tie reimbursement to quality have turned an even brighter spotlight on the need to ensure patient satisfaction. You must do everything you can to reduce your liability risk and prevent potential lawsuits. This means making sure that patients leave your facility feeling good about their experience. The advice is simple: Treat patients with care and stay out of the courtroom. The Satisfied Patient, Second Edition: A Guide to Preventing Malpractice Claims by Providing Excellent Customer Service is a resource that every modern physician needs. Written by an experienced healthcare attorney, this fully updated book illustrates how focusing on patient satisfaction can better your organization, reduce the potential of professional liability claim, and significantly affect the outcome of that claim if initiated. Learn how to increase patient satisfaction and reduce claims by: Incorporating five-star customer service principles into caregiving Encouraging patients to take responsibility for their care Taking a few extra seconds to create legible, concise documentation Not familiar with the litigation process? If you haven''t been inside the courtroom, and want to avoid it, The Satisfied Patient, Second Edition describes a typical deposition and malpractice trial and illustrates how strong customer service on the front end can strengthen your defenses in the courtroom on the back end. Fully updated to reflect today''s physician needs! Take a look at what''s NEW in the second edition: A new section that addresses pay for performance and other measures that tie reimbursement to quality initiatives An expanded section on the litigation process and how patient satisfaction--or the lack thereof-- can affect it Additional patient satisfaction and customer service tools Updated research about the connection between customer satisfaction and liability claims All new case studies that reflect the newest liability and malpractice laws You need this valuable legal tool. The Satisfied Patient, Second Edition: A Guide to Preventing Malpractice Claims by Providing Excellent Customer Service is a beneficial resource for the following healthcare professionals: Physicians and physician practice administrators/managers Corporate compliance officers Risk managers and performance improvement professionals C-suite level executives In-house counsel VPMAs Medical directors Words of praise from satisfied physicians for The Satisfied Patient, Second Edition "Mr. Saxton''s experience and understanding of the points of view of the physician, patient, insurance provider, attorney and jury all serve to assist the medical care provider in avoiding malpractice claims from the moment a patient requests an appointment until after an event has occurred. The Satisfied Patient is a must for any doctor seeking to improve patient satisfaction, practice efficiency and avoid claims." --Peter Cotton, MD., Medical director of the Digestive Disease Center, professor of medicine, and assistant dean for international activities at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston "The tools and concepts presented in The Satisfied Patient seem so logical. Yet during the course of a busy day, it is easy to overlook the obvious. The Satisfied Patient speaks to the importance of developing everyday strategies to improve patient involvement, staff unity, and organized documentation, which turns everyday routine into preventing the obvious from ever getting overlooked again, ultimately reducing the risk of liability claims." --David Acker, MD., Chief of Obstetrics, Brigham and Women''s Hospital, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Boston A glimpse of what you''ll get Take a look at the table of contents for The Satisfied Patient, Second Edition: Chapter One: The Looming Cloud Chapter Two: The ''True Cost'' of a Malpractice Claim Chapter Three: Malpractice is Not the Only Cause of a Malpractice Claim Chapter Four: Creating the Right Environment Chapter Five: Becoming a Five-Star Service Provider Chapter Six: Making Patients Partners Chapter Seven: Documentation: Creating Appropriate Evidence Chapter Eight: Recognizing When You Are At Risk Chapter Nine: When an Adverse Event Occurs, How Do You Tell the Patient? Chapter Ten: Managing Adverse Events Chapter Eleven: The Trial Process Chapter Twelve: The Trial: The Ultimate Anxiety Our risk-free money-back guarantee. If for any reason The Satisfied Patient, Second Edition does not meet your needs, return it within 30 days and you will receive a prompt, polite, 100% refund--no questions asked.
Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309101476
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Preventing Medication Errors written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2007-01-11 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1996 the Institute of Medicine launched the Quality Chasm Series, a series of reports focused on assessing and improving the nation's quality of health care. Preventing Medication Errors is the newest volume in the series. Responding to the key messages in earlier volumes of the seriesâ€"To Err Is Human (2000), Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001), and Patient Safety (2004)â€"this book sets forth an agenda for improving the safety of medication use. It begins by providing an overview of the system for drug development, regulation, distribution, and use. Preventing Medication Errors also examines the peer-reviewed literature on the incidence and the cost of medication errors and the effectiveness of error prevention strategies. Presenting data that will foster the reduction of medication errors, the book provides action agendas detailing the measures needed to improve the safety of medication use in both the short- and long-term. Patients, primary health care providers, health care organizations, purchasers of group health care, legislators, and those affiliated with providing medications and medication- related products and services will benefit from this guide to reducing medication errors.
Author : Marshall Kapp
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313037876
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Our Hands Are Tied written by Marshall Kapp and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1998-05-12 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a critical examination of the pervasive tension existing between defensive medicine and good, ethical patient care, this book investigates the impact of legalities on medical treatment. Physicians today are apprehensive about the threat of malpractice suits. Kapp explores the extent to which this fear is justified. He examines where physicians get their ideas about what the law forbids and requires, how physicians' perceptions of the law and medicine affect medical care, and whether these behavioral manifestations benefit or hurt a physician's ability to practice ethically. Kapp then suggests ways medical professionals can resolve tension caused by conflicting demands and encourage more ethical care.
Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309036437
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book For-Profit Enterprise in Health Care written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[This book is] the most authoritative assessment of the advantages and disadvantages of recent trends toward the commercialization of health care," says Robert Pear of The New York Times. This major study by the Institute of Medicine examines virtually all aspects of for-profit health care in the United States, including the quality and availability of health care, the cost of medical care, access to financial capital, implications for education and research, and the fiduciary role of the physician. In addition to the report, the book contains 15 papers by experts in the field of for-profit health care covering a broad range of topicsâ€"from trends in the growth of major investor-owned hospital companies to the ethical issues in for-profit health care. "The report makes a lasting contribution to the health policy literature." â€"Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law.
Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309131529
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Resident Duty Hours written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2009-04-27 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medical residents in hospitals are often required to be on duty for long hours. In 2003 the organization overseeing graduate medical education adopted common program requirements to restrict resident workweeks, including limits to an average of 80 hours over 4 weeks and the longest consecutive period of work to 30 hours in order to protect patients and residents from unsafe conditions resulting from excessive fatigue. Resident Duty Hours provides a timely examination of how those requirements were implemented and their impact on safety, education, and the training institutions. An in-depth review of the evidence on sleep and human performance indicated a need to increase opportunities for sleep during residency training to prevent acute and chronic sleep deprivation and minimize the risk of fatigue-related errors. In addition to recommending opportunities for on-duty sleep during long duty periods and breaks for sleep of appropriate lengths between work periods, the committee also recommends enhancements of supervision, appropriate workload, and changes in the work environment to improve conditions for safety and learning. All residents, medical educators, those involved with academic training institutions, specialty societies, professional groups, and consumer/patient safety organizations will find this book useful to advocate for an improved culture of safety.
Author : Monroe M. Title
Publisher : Nova Biomedical Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Health Facility Malpractice Cases written by Monroe M. Title and published by Nova Biomedical Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health Facility Malpractice Cases A Management Prevention Guide
Author : Lucian L. Leape
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030711234
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Making Healthcare Safe written by Lucian L. Leape and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique and engaging open access title provides a compelling and ground-breaking account of the patient safety movement in the United States, told from the perspective of one of its most prominent leaders, and arguably the movement’s founder, Lucian L. Leape, MD. Covering the growth of the field from the late 1980s to 2015, Dr. Leape details the developments, actors, organizations, research, and policy-making activities that marked the evolution and major advances of patient safety in this time span. In addition, and perhaps most importantly, this book not only comprehensively details how and why human and systems errors too often occur in the process of providing health care, it also promotes an in-depth understanding of the principles and practices of patient safety, including how they were influenced by today’s modern safety sciences and systems theory and design. Indeed, the book emphasizes how the growing awareness of systems-design thinking and the self-education and commitment to improving patient safety, by not only Dr. Leape but a wide range of other clinicians and health executives from both the private and public sectors, all converged to drive forward the patient safety movement in the US. Making Healthcare Safe is divided into four parts: I. In the Beginning describes the research and theory that defined patient safety and the early initiatives to enhance it. II. Institutional Responses tells the stories of the efforts of the major organizations that began to apply the new concepts and make patient safety a reality. Most of these stories have not been previously told, so this account becomes their histories as well. III. Getting to Work provides in-depth analyses of four key issues that cut across disciplinary lines impacting patient safety which required special attention. IV. Creating a Culture of Safety looks to the future, marshalling the best thinking about what it will take to achieve the safe care we all deserve. Captivatingly written with an “insider’s” tone and a major contribution to the clinical literature, this title will be of immense value to health care professionals, to students in a range of academic disciplines, to medical trainees, to health administrators, to policymakers and even to lay readers with an interest in patient safety and in the critical quest to create safe care.
Author : George J. Agich
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195074956
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (749 download)
Download or read book Autonomy and Long-term Care written by George J. Agich and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The realities and misconceptions of long-term care and the challenges it presents for the ethics of autonomy are analyzed in this perceptive work. While defending the concept of autonomy, the author argues that the standard view of autonomy as non-interference and independence has only a limited applicability for long-term care. He explains that autonomy should be understood as a comprehensiveness that defines the overall course of a person's life rather than as a way of responding to an isolated situation. Agich distinguishes actual and ideal autonomy and argues that actual autonomy is better revealed in the everyday experiences of long-term care than in dramatic, conflict-ridden paradigm situations such as decisions to institutionalize, to initiate aggressive treatments, or to withhold or to withdraw life-sustaining treatments. Through a phenomenological analysis of long-term care, he develops an ethical framework for it by showing how autonomy is actually manifest in certain structural features of the social world of long-term care. Throughout this timely work, the rich sociological and anthropological literature on aging and long-term care is referenced and the practical ethical questions of promoting and enhancing the exercise of autonomy are addressed.
