Limiting Harm in Health Care - A Nursing Perspective

Informationen zum Autor Frank Milligan is the editor of Limiting Harm in Health Care: A Nursing Perspective, published by Wiley. Kate Robinson is the editor of Limiting Harm in Health Care: A Nursing Perspective, published by Wiley. Klappentext Limiting Harm in Health Care highlights the potential for medical harm in all areas of practice. Separate chapters explore the potential for medical harm in diverse areas of practice, from the use of medication, technology, hospital routine, and clinical procedures, to the role of communication in areas such as mental illness and palliative care. The practitioner 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. Zusammenfassung This volume highlights the potential for medical harm in all areas of practice. It explore the potential for medical harm in diverse areas of practice! from the use of medication! technology and clinical procedures! to the role of "talk" in areas such as mental illness and palliative care. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Merle Haggard, F Milligan, Frank Milligan
• Assisted by: Frank Milligan (Editor), Frank (SENIOR TEACHING FELLOW Milligan (Editor), Milligan Frank (Editor), Kate Robinson (Editor), Kate (SENIOR PRO-VICE CHANCELLOR Robinson (Editor)
• Publisher: Blackwell Scientific Publishers Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2008
• EAN: 9780632059966
• ISBN: 978-0-632-05996-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Nursing; Nursing
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; MEDICAL / Public Health, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, MEDICAL / Preventive Medicine, Public health & preventive medicine, Health systems & services, Public health and preventive medicine, Health systems and services