Crisis Management in Acute Care Settings
Human Factors, Team Psychology, and Patient Safety in a High Stakes Environment
Authors: St.Pierre, M., Hofinger, G., Buerschaper, C., Simon, R.
Free Preview- A comprehensive outline of issues relevant to error prevention and safe practice in the acute and emergency health care setting
- All chapters enlarged and updated since the first edition
- Includes case reports and descriptions of proven strategies that help to ground the psychological theory in daily practice
- Blends the strengths of clinicians and psychologists into a readily accessible text that will assist both physicians and non-physicians
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- About this book
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Critical situations in acute and emergency care are one of the great clinical challenges. The nature of such care, involving uncertainty, high stakes, time pressure, and stress, makes this domain particularly vulnerable to errors in patient treatment. It has been increasingly acknowledged over the past decade that safe practice in these circumstances depends on a thorough understanding of the sources of human error.
Crisis Management in Acute Care Settings is unique in providing a comprehensive outline of all the human factors issues relevant to patient safety during acute care.
This newly revised edition has emerged from a long-standing cooperation between clinicians and psychologists, who have worked together again to enlarge and update each chapter. The strengths of the two professions have been blended into a readily accessible text which will help both physicians and non-physicians to better understand the principles of human behavior and decision making in critical situations and thus to avoid errors and provide safer treatment.
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From the reviews of the second edition:
“It is well laid out, with good use of diagrams … and tables, and it handles the topics well. … it is a book to read, reflect, reread, rereflect, and apply to one’s own practice. … If you want to understand why your learners have done what they have done … then this book will be of great help. … No simulation center should be without a copy, and even those very experienced in the field of simulation will benefit from reading this edition.” (Ronnie J. Glavin, Simulation in Healthcare, Vol. 7 (1), February, 2012)
- Table of contents (15 chapters)
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The Human Factors: Errors and Skills
Pages 3-22
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The Challenge of Acute Healthcare
Pages 23-39
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The Nature of Error
Pages 41-59
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The Psychology of Human Action
Pages 61-82
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Human Perception: The Way We See Things
Pages 85-100
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Crisis Management in Acute Care Settings
- Book Subtitle
- Human Factors, Team Psychology, and Patient Safety in a High Stakes Environment
- Authors
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- Michael St.Pierre
- Gesine Hofinger
- Cornelius Buerschaper
- Robert Simon
- Copyright
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-642-19700-0
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-642-19700-0
- Edition Number
- 2
- Number of Pages
- XXI, 346
- Number of Illustrations
- 11 b/w illustrations, 42 illustrations in colour
- Topics
