Improving Healthcare - A Handbook for Practitioners

Informationen zum Autor Lesley Baillie is Florence Nightingale Foundation Chair of Clinical Nursing Practice in the School of Health and Social Care at London South Bank University.?Elaine Maxwell is Associate Professor in Leadership at London South Bank University. Zusammenfassung Good intentions to do our best in healthcare are not enough. Healthcare professionals need to know how to close the gap between best evidence and practice! by understanding and applying quality improvement principles and processes. Improving Healthcare is a practical guide! providing healthcare staff with the knowledge and skills that enable them to implement! evaluate and disseminate a quality improvement project in their own workplace. With a comprehensive coverage! chapters cover the history! selection and application of quality improvement philosophies and methods in clinical healthcare at team! unit! organisational and system levels. The book also considers social processes of implementation as well as technical aspects of measuring and improving quality. As an essential guide for healthcare practitioners at any level who are new to service improvement! Improving Healthcare includes practical examples and case studies of healthcare improvements that illustrate the concepts discussed. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1. Introducing Healthcare Improvement Chapter 2. Understanding the Context for Healthcare Iprovement Chapter 3. System Improvement Chapter 4. Service User Involvement in Healthcare Improvement Chapter 5. Ethics and Governance in Healthcare Improvement Chapter 6. Measuring for Healthcare Improvement Chapter 7.High Reliability Organisations: Making Care Safer through Reliability and Resilience Chapter 8. Implementing Healthcare Improvement Chapter 9. Sharing Healthcare Improvements: Presenting and Communicating Improvement Results Chapter 10. Evaluating Healthcare Improvements

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Lesley (London South Bank University and Baillie, Lesley Maxwell Baillie
• Con la collaborazione di: Lesley Baillie (Editore), Leslie Baillie (Editore), Baillie Lesley (Editore), Elaine Maxwell (Editore), Maxwell Elaine (Editore)
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 13.04.2017
• EAN: 9781138709249
• ISBN: 978-1-138-70924-9
• Pagine: 192
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Medicina > Tematiche generali; MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, Nursing, MEDICAL / Reproductive Medicine & Technology, MEDICAL / Nursing / General, MEDICAL / Allied Health Services / General, Reproductive Medicine, Public health & preventive medicine, Public health and preventive medicine, Nursing and ancillary services