Limiting harm in health care : a nursing perspective /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Milligan, Frank, Robinson, Kate
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford, OX ; Malden, MA, USA : Blackwell Pub., ©2003.
Subjects:	Nursing errors > Prevention. Accidents > Prevention. Medical care > Quality control. Medical Errors > prevention & control Accident Prevention Nursing Care > standards Quality Assurance, Health Care Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

1. Introduction, aims and mapping health care / Frank Milligan and Kate Robinson
2. Defining medicine and the nature of iatrogenic harm / Frank Milligan
3. Being a professional: a defence against causing harm? / Kate Robinson
4. Harm reduction in context: the scope of nursing practice / John Wilkinson and Joan P. McDowall
5. Expanding nurse prescribing and the hidden harm within modern drug therapy / Jennifer Kelly
6. Shifts in the care of hyperactive children / Ponnusamy Ganeson and Uttom Chowdhury
7. The medicalisation of mental health practice: lessons from the care of patients who deliberately self-harm / Alastair McElroy
8. Complaints as a measure of harm: lessons from community health councils / Angeline Burke
9. Nurse diagnosed myocardial infarction: hidden nurse work and iatrogenic risk / Denise Flisher and Marilyn Burn
10. Talking harm, whispering death: an exploration of iatrogenic harm in palliative care / Valerie Young
11. NHS direct: reducing unecessary harm in health care through information technology and shifting nurse roles / Richard Winter and Stuart Thompson
12. Avoiding harm in health care: a doctor's perspective / Donald Richardson
13. Limiting harm in future health care: the role of nursing / Frank Milligan and Kate Robinson.