Patient Safety Pocket Guide (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)

Arm your front-line health care staff with this convenient pocket-sized guide. Your staff will be able to immediately verify any questions about best practices to ensure patient safety and prevent medical errors. This handy guide covers all the important information that your staff needs to know, including how to prevent the following: Patient falls Health care-associated infections Pressure ulcers Surgical fires Patient misidentification Medication errors, including those related to high-alert medications and medication reconciliation Miscommunication during patient hand-offs Confusing abbreviations Wrong-site surgery