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Nursing, risk and decision making
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By
Andy Alaszewski, BA MA PhD HonMFPHM, Professor of Health Studies and Director of the Institue of Health Studies, University of Hull, UK
Description
This book provides an accessible account of the key issues involved in risk assessment and management. It focuses on how nurses make decisions
about clients and risk, which are essential to quality, safe nursing care.
Audience
Students and practitioners in mental health nursing, learning disability nursing, care of the elderly; other health professionals in these fields
Contents
1. Risk in nursing practice: developing and sustaining trust. 2. Risk: empowerment or control? 3. Service users, informal carers and risk.
4. Decision making and risk in individual practice. 5. Risk, decisions and teamwork. Improving the quality of risk management and decision
making in practice. 7. Risk, trust and nursing: towards an ethical basis for risk assessment and management in practice. References.
Index
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Paperback, 208 pages, publication date: OCT-2000
ISBN-13: 978-0-7020-2603-4
ISBN-10: 0-7020-2603-4
Imprint: BAILLIÈRE TINDALL
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Last update: 19 Feb 2010
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