Practicing patient safety in psychiatry /

Practicing patient safety in psychiatry / edited by Geetha Jayaram, MD.

This practical guide to patient safety focuses on how to carefully (and courteously) treat patients in psychiatric care settings. Examining issues of clinical leadership and strategic planning, as well as how to prevent lapses, oversights and errors, it is designed for easy reading and reference. Bu...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Jayaram, Geetha (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Patient safety.
Patient safety
Clinical psychology > Methodology.
Mental illness > Treatment.
Psychiatry > Methodology.
Clinical psychology > Methodology
Mental illness > Treatment
Psychiatry > Methodology
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to patient safety / Geetha Jayaram
  • The physician advisor's role in contemporary psychiatry / Geetha Jayaram
  • Hand-offs in psychiatry / Geetha Jayaram
  • Suicide risk management and prevention / Geetha Jayaram
  • Medication errors in psychiatry : an examination of error proneness of psychotropic medications / Geetha Jayaram and Brian Pinto
  • Safety considerations for electroconvulsive therapy / Irving Reti, Melinda Walker, Kathy Pulia, Geetha Jayaram, and Frank Mondimore
  • Psychiatric problems in patients in the general hospital / O. Joseph Bienvenu and Geetha Jayaram
  • Avoiding restraints and seclusion use / Geetha Jayaram
  • Root cause analysis / Geetha Jayaram
  • Planning for preventing elopements / Geetha Jayaram
  • Miscellaneous problems in patient safety / Geetha Jayaram.

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