Delivering patient safety : multimedia resource for healthcare professionals
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat34377
Canadian Patient Safety Institute.
--Ottawa, ON:
Canadian Patient Safety Institute | TVC Films
, 2007.
- Call Number
- WX 185 D353d 2007 DVD
- Access
- .
- Location
- Nova Scotia Hospital
- Call Number
- WX 185 D353d 2007 DVD
- Corporate Author
- Canadian Patient Safety Institute
- Place of Publication
- Ottawa, ON
- Publisher
- Canadian Patient Safety Institute
- TVC Films
- Date of Publication
- 2007
- Physical Description
- 6 DVDs + 1 CD-ROM
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Patient Safety
- Safety Management - methods
- Quality Assurance, Health Care
- Contents
- DVD 1. Facing the facts -- DVD 2. Changing the culture -- DVD 3. Why things go wrong -- DVD 4. Building resistance to error -- DVD 5. A safer system -- DVD 6. Leading and learning -- CD-ROM. Support materials.
- Access
- .
- Format
- DVD
- Location
- Nova Scotia Hospital
- Copies
- 3
- Loan Period
- 3 weeks
Medical error and harm : understanding, prevention and control
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat24747
Jenicek, Milos.
--Boca Raton, FL:
CRC Press
, 2007.
- Call Number
- WB 100 J51m 2011
- Location
- Halifax Infirmary
- Call Number
- WB 100 J51m 2011
- Author
- Jenicek, Milos
- Place of Publication
- Boca Raton, FL
- Publisher
- CRC Press
- Date of Publication
- 2007
- Physical Description
- 360 p.
- ISBN
- 9781439836941
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Medical Errors - prevention & control
- Quality Assurance, Health Care
- Safety Management - methods
- Format
- Book
- Location
- Halifax Infirmary
- Loan Period
- 3 weeks
Patient safety in emergency medicine
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat24709
Croskerry, Pat.
--Philadelphia, PA:
Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
, 2009.
- Call Number
- WX 215 C951p 2009
- Location
- Halifax Infirmary
- Nova Scotia Hospital
- Call Number
- WX 215 C951p 2009
- Author
- Croskerry, Pat
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia, PA
- Publisher
- Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
- Date of Publication
- 2009
- Physical Description
- 428 p.
- ISBN
- 9780781777278
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Patient Safety
- Emergency Medical Services - organization & administration
- Medical Errors - prevention & control
- Safety Management - methods
- Format
- Book
- Location
- Halifax Infirmary
- Nova Scotia Hospital
- Copies
- 3
- Loan Period
- 3 weeks
Preventing Occupational Exposures to Infectious Disease in Health Care : A Practical Guide
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat45648
Amber Hogan Mitchell.
--Cham:
Springer
, c2020.
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Location
- Online
This book is a practical guide for preventing occupational exposures to bloodborne and infectious disease in health care. It is a timely and essential resource given that people working in healthcare settings sustain a higher incidence of occupational illness than any other industry sector, and at the time of publication of this book we are in the midst of a global pandemic of COVID-19. While the guide is focused on health care primarily, it would be useful for preventing exposures to essential…
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Author
- Mitchell, Amber Hogan
- Responsibility
- Amber Hogan Mitchell
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2020
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xvi, 171 p.) : 28 illus., 13 illus. in color
- ISBN
- 9783030560393
- 9783030560386 (Print ed.)
- 9783030560409 (Print ed.)
- 9783030560416 (Print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Communicable Disease Control
- Occupational Exposure - prevention & control
- Occupational Health
- Safety Management - methods
- Abstract
- This book is a practical guide for preventing occupational exposures to bloodborne and infectious disease in health care. It is a timely and essential resource given that people working in healthcare settings sustain a higher incidence of occupational illness than any other industry sector, and at the time of publication of this book we are in the midst of a global pandemic of COVID-19. While the guide is focused on health care primarily, it would be useful for preventing exposures to essential workers in many other industries as well. The guide offers easy-to-follow instruction, all in one place, for creating, implementing, and evaluating occupational health and safety programs. Readers have practical information that they can use now to either build a new program or expand an existing one that protects workers from occupationally associated illness and infection. With a focus on the public health significance of building better, safer programs in health care, the book provides not just the evidence-based or data-driven reasoning behind building successful programs, but also includes sample programs, plans, checklists, campaigns, and record-keeping and surveillance tools. Topics explored among the chapters include: Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Regulatory Compliance; Other Regulatory Requirements, National Standards, and Accreditation; Performing a Hazard Assessment and Building an Exposure Control Plan; Engineering Controls and Safer Medical Devices; Personal Protective Equipment Placement and Use; Facing a Modern Pandemic. Preventing Occupational Exposures to Infectious Disease in Health Care is a comprehensive resource for both seasoned and novice professionals with primary, secondary, or ancillary responsibility for occupational or employee health and safety, infection prevention, risk management, or environmental health and safety in a variety of healthcare or patient care settings. It also would appeal to those working in public health, nursing, medical, or clinical technical trades with an interest in infection prevention and control and/or occupational health and infectious disease.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 2. Public Health Significance -- 3. Controlling and Preventing Occupational Illness and Infection -- 4. Microbiology Basics -- 5. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Regulatory Compliance -- 6. Other Regulatory Requirements, National Standards, and Accreditation -- 7. Performing a Hazard Assessment and Building an Exposure Control Plan -- 8. Institutional and Administrative Controls -- 9. Engineering Controls and Safer Medical Devices -- 10. Personal Protective Equipment Placement and Use -- 11. Facing a Modern Pandemic -- 12. Making It All Work -- Appendix A: OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses -- Appendix B: Model Exposure Control Plan -- Appendix C: Hazard Communication Safety Data Sheet.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Quality management in clinical laboratories : promoting patient safety through risk reduction and continuous improvement
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat38844
Paul Valenstein, editor.
--Northfield, IL:
College of American Pathologists (CAP)
, c2005.
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Location
- Online
Quality Management in Clinical Laboratories is a practical "how-to" manual written for the laboratory director, supervisor, and practicing pathologist. It is designed to help laboratories manage quality and patient safety, comply with regulations and accreditation requirements, and develop and administer a quality management plan. Sponsored by the CAP Quality Practices Committee and Patient Safety and Performance Measures Committee, the manual covers the most important standards and areas that…
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Other Authors
- Valenstein, Paul
- Responsibility
- Paul Valenstein, editor
- Place of Publication
- Northfield, IL
- Publisher
- College of American Pathologists (CAP)
- Date of Publication
- c2005
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource, 250 p.
- ISBN
- 9781941096123
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Laboratories - Standards
- Laboratories - statistics & numerical data
- Quality Assurance, Health Care - methods
- Safety Management - methods
- Other Subjects
- United States
- Abstract
- Quality Management in Clinical Laboratories is a practical "how-to" manual written for the laboratory director, supervisor, and practicing pathologist. It is designed to help laboratories manage quality and patient safety, comply with regulations and accreditation requirements, and develop and administer a quality management plan. Sponsored by the CAP Quality Practices Committee and Patient Safety and Performance Measures Committee, the manual covers the most important standards and areas that have proven to be particularly problematic in the management of clinical laboratories. Patient safety issues are discussed throughout the text. Includes sample laboratory quality management plans.
- Format
- e-Book
- Publication Type
- Statistics
- Location
- Online
Safer Healthcare : Strategies for the Real World
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat39980
by Charles Vincent, René Amalberti.
--Cham:
Springer
, c2016.
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Access
- Open access
- Location
- Online
The authors of this book set out a system of safety strategies and interventions for managing patient safety on a day-to-day basis and improving safety over the long term. These strategies are applicable at all levels of the healthcare system from the frontline to the regulation and governance of the system. There have been many advances in patient safety, but we now need a new and broader vision that encompasses care throughout the patient's journey. The authors argue that we need to see safet…
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Author
- Vincent, Charles
- Other Authors
- Amalberti, René
- Responsibility
- by Charles Vincent, René Amalberti
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2016
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xvii, 157 pages) : 12 illus.
- ISBN
- 9783319255590
- 9783319255576 (print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Accident Prevention
- Patient Safety - standards
- Safety Management - methods
- Specialty
- Health Services
- Abstract
- The authors of this book set out a system of safety strategies and interventions for managing patient safety on a day-to-day basis and improving safety over the long term. These strategies are applicable at all levels of the healthcare system from the frontline to the regulation and governance of the system. There have been many advances in patient safety, but we now need a new and broader vision that encompasses care throughout the patient's journey. The authors argue that we need to see safety through the patient's eyes, to consider how safety is managed in different contexts and to develop a wider strategic and practical vision in which patient safety is recast as the management of risk over time. Most safety improvement strategies aim to improve reliability and move closer toward optimal care. However, healthcare will always be under pressure and we also require ways of managing safety when conditions are difficult. We need to make more use of strategies concerned with detecting, controlling, managing and responding to risk. Strategies for managing safety in highly standardised and controlled environments are necessarily different from those in which clinicians constantly have to adapt and respond to changing circumstances. This work is supported by the Health Foundation. The Health Foundation is an independent charity committed to bringing about better health and health care for people in the UK. The charity's aim is a healthier population in the UK, supported by high quality health care that can be equitably accessed. The Foundation carries out policy analysis and makes grants to front-line teams to try ideas in practice and supports research into what works to make people's lives healthier and improve the health care system, with a particular emphasis on how to make successful change happen. A key part of the work is to make links between the knowledge of those working to deliver health and health care with research evidence and analysis. The aspiration is to create a virtuous circle, using what works on the ground to inform effective policymaking and vice versa. Good health and health care are vital for a flourishing society. Through sharing what is known, collaboration and building people's skills and knowledge, the Foundation aims to make a difference and contribute to a healthier population.
- Contents
- Progress and Challenges for Patient Safety -- The Ideal and the Real -- Approaches to Safety: One Size Does not Fit All -- Seeing Safety Through the Patient's Eyes -- The Consequences for Incident Analysis -- Strategies for Safety -- Safety Strategies in Hospitals -- Safety Strategies for Care in the Home -- Safety Strategies in Primary Care -- New Challenges for Patient Safety -- A Compendium of Safety Strategies and Interventions -- Managing Risk in the Real World.
- Access
- Open access
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Safety in Office-Based Dermatologic Surgery
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat39161
Jacob O. Levitt, Joseph F. Sobanko, editors.
--Cham:
Springer
, c2015.
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Location
- Online
In medical practice, unfamiliarity with procedures increases the likelihood of occupational exposures. Learning to perform a procedure properly early on reinforces safe habits, improves overall surgical safety, and reduces occupational exposures. Safety in Office-Based Dermatologic Surgery is relevant to any healthcare professional who participates in office-based procedures, such as injections, biopsies, excisions, and laser surgery. The authors bring over 15 years' combined experience in trai…
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Other Authors
- Levitt, Jacob O
- Sobanko, Joseph F
- Responsibility
- Jacob O. Levitt, Joseph F. Sobanko, editors
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2015
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xv, 188 p. : 303 illus., 302 illus. in color)
- ISBN
- 9783319133478
- 9783319133461 (print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Ambulatory Surgical Procedures - methods
- Dermatologic Surgical Procedures - methods
- Safety Management - methods
- Abstract
- In medical practice, unfamiliarity with procedures increases the likelihood of occupational exposures. Learning to perform a procedure properly early on reinforces safe habits, improves overall surgical safety, and reduces occupational exposures. Safety in Office-Based Dermatologic Surgery is relevant to any healthcare professional who participates in office-based procedures, such as injections, biopsies, excisions, and laser surgery. The authors bring over 15 years' combined experience in training residents and medical students, enabling them to identify common unsafe practices in office-based surgery. Chapters are divided into individual procedures for easy referencing by students, trainees, as well as seasoned practitioners. Figures illustrate how seemingly innocuous actions and procedures can result in dangerous exposures to healthcare workers. Hazardous scenarios are subsequently followed with one or a series of safer solutions, with the accident and solution concisely explained and clearly illustrated.
- Contents
- [publisher supplied] Epidemiology -- What to do if exposed -- Personal safety equipment -- General Principles -- Setting up a tray -- Injection -- Working with an assistant -- Excision -- Hemostasis -- Suturing -- Venipuncture -- Curettage -- Cryotherapy -- Acne surgery -- Nail clipping -- Lasers and PDT.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
