Patient Safety Publications

 
The Nurse’s Role in Medication Safety

Written especially for nurses in all disciplines and health care settings, The Nurse’s Role in Medication Safety focuses on the hands-on role nurses play in the delivery of care and their unique opportunity and responsibility to identify potential medication safety issues. It provides nurses with practical strategies and real-life examples to improve medication safety in their health care organizations.  This book also offers expert advice from nurses and researchers on how to:

• Develop effective medication reconciliation processes that make use of a nurse's unique abilities in the area of preventing medication errors
• Address repetitive error patterns
• Work with other nurses, pharmacists, and physicians as partners in medication safety
• Encourage nurses to report medication errors
• Use human factors engineering solutions to help nurses improve medication safety
• Use technology (such as smart pumps and computerized prescriber order entry) to help nurses improve medication safety
• Address the ethical and moral effects of a nurse's role in medication safety

Co-published by JCR and The American Academy of Pediatrics

• Approaches to enhance communication
• Case studies showing real-life examples
• Suggested checklists of types of child-size, child-safe medical instruments
• CD-ROM with tools, checklists, and forms to fit into any organization

New!
Patient Safety Posters, 2^nd Edition
Enhance your patient safety program! Use these colorful posters as reminders. This set of 10 eye-catching 18 x 24 posters make it easy to communicate and reinforce the importance of patient safety to staff. To increase their effectiveness, we based our new Patient Safety Posters on the 2008 National Patient Safety Goals. Communicating with staff about important care issues can be challenging. Display these colorful, informative posters throughout your facility to remind everyone about the importance of patient safety, all the time. Each poster contains key messages or tips on an important National Patient Safety Goal topic. Topics include the following:

• Read-Back Orders
• Do-Not-Use Abbreviations
• Hand Hygiene
• Fall Prevention
• Medication Reconciliation
• Keeping Patients Involved
• Suicide Prevention
• Eliminate Surgical Mistakes
• Hand Off With Care
• Know Your Patient