Patient Safety and Managing Risk in Nursing

Melanie Fisher LLM (Medical Law), MA (Education and Practice), PGDE, BSc (Hons), RN, ONC is Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader, Pre-Registration Health Studies, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne. Melanie Fisher has worked in Higher Education for 13 years. Prior to this she worked in Adult Nursing predominantly in Trauma and Orthopaedics before taking up leadership and management roles which incorporated managing risk, promoting patient safety and developing practice. Melanie has a keen interest in medical and healthcare law and she has also worked with strategic commissioners as a patient safety associate.Margaret Scott, LLM (Medical Law), PGDAPL, BSc, RN is Senior Lecturer and acting Programme Leader, Pre-Registration Health Studies, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne. She has recently been accepted as a Fellow of The Higher Education Academy.Margaret Scott has 29 years’ nursing experience having worked predominantly in operating departments and anaesthetics prior to moving into nurse education.  She is very safety focused due to working for many years in such a high-risk work environment and is committed to raising awareness and making a difference in providing safer care.

The book acknowledges it is an introduction to the subject which it is. It is sadly already out of date with the current NHS structures, and organisational changes. I would suggest the current edition of the book (with updating of NHS organisational changes) is highly suitable and could be beneficially marketed for the non registration/graduate health and social care workers ie. HCSW′s etc. Enhancing the depth of critical thinking in the activities within future editions would assist graduates and post registration students.

• IntroductionPatient Safety and QualityRisk and HealthcareAccidents and Incidents - What Went Wrong?Medicine Administration and SafetyRaising Concerns: Safeguarding the VulnerableThe Nurse: Accountability and Professional RegulationHuman Error: Systems and Human Factors in Patient SafetyMeasuring Patient Safety and SatisfactionThe Influence of Leadership and Culture in Managing IncidentsPatient Safety - What Next?