Patient Safety and Managing Risk in Nursing

Patient safety is a predominant feature of quality healthcare and something that every patient has the right to expect. As a nurse, you must consider the safety of the patient as paramount in every aspect of your role; and it is now an increasingly important topic in pre-registration nursing programmes. This book aims to provide you with a greater understanding of how to manage patient safety and risk in your practice. The book focuses on the essentials that you need to know, and therefore provides a clear pathway through what can sometimes seem an overwhelmingly complex mass of rules, procedures and possible options.Key features: A practical introduction to patient safety and risk management written specifically for nurses and nursing students Case studies and scenarios help you to apply patient safety and risk management principles to actual practice Each chapter is mapped to the relevant NMC standards and Essential Skills Clusters so that you can see how you are meeting the professional requirements Activities throughout help you to think critically and reflect on practice.