Measuring Patient Safety / Edition 1

by Robin Purdy Newhouse, Stephanie S. Poe

Overview

Measuring Patient Safety prepares nurses for participating in and leading multidisciplinary safety initiatives. Improving patient safety requires nurses to assume leadership roles in measuring and improving the structures, processes, and patient outcomes in the clinical setting. This text enables them to impact patient safety with knowledge and confidence by providing a context for safety as a priority and the means for quantifying the scope of the patient safety problem.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780763728410
Publisher:	Jones & Bartlett Learning
Publication date:	09/14/2004
Edition description:	1E
Pages:	152
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Robin Newhouse, PhD, RN, CNA, CNOR is Nurse Researcher at The Johns Hopkins Hospital where she is accountable for directing the nursing research program in the Department of Nursing and providing expert consultation in advanced research methods and data analysis. She promotes data-based decision making in the Department of Nursing by developing skills of departmental nursing leaders in the management and quantitative analysis of data to guide the research, performance improvement, and patient outcomes management programs. As an Assistant Professor at The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, she teaches Managing Clinical Outcomes in the Business of Nursing program.

Stephanie S. Poe, MScN, RN, is coordinator for Nursing Clinical Quality at The Johns Hopkins Hospital where she provides leadership in regulatory, performance improvement, safety, evidence-based practice, clinical documentation, and other quality initiatives at both the Department of Nursing and Hospital level. She provides expert consultation in database development and management.