Main description:

This book informs nurses about the most common and the more serious errors made in caring for patients with infectious diseases. It provides learnings about a variety of infectious diseases, including COVID-19, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE), Clostridium difficile (C-diff.), and tuberculosis (TB), amongst others. Factors that are predisposing and contributing factors for nursing errors are reviewed. The types of errors, consequences, detection, and monitoring for nursing errors are included. This book examines how errors can be avoided with necessary precautions, and managed appropriately based on current evidence-based practice. Recommendations for further study are also provided. This book is a useful tool for nurse educators/ leaders/mentors to educate and guide their students and professional nurses.

Contents:

ForewordKim Maryniak
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Overview of common conditions in the neonatal intensive care unito Include prematurity and complications, congenital conditions, complications of poor transition to extrauterine life
Chapter 3. Predisposing and contributing factors for nursing errorso Review types of errors that can occur
Chapter 4. Types of errorso Include common errors, such as medication errors, identification errorso Identify errors specifically associated with prematurity and other neonatal conditions
Chapter 5. Consequences of nursing errorso Discuss impact of errors on the neonatal patiento Highlight the severity of outcomes with neonatal patients, including long-term consequences, morbidity, and mortality
Chapter 6. Monitoring for and detecting nursing errorso Include use of incident reports, purposeful rounding, leadership roundingo Responsibilities for reporting errors, and the high potential for non-reporting or under-reporting
Chapter 7. Best practices to prevent nursing errorso Provide updated guidelines and standards from worldwide sources
Chapter 8. Recommendations for further studyo Look at gaps in information and current knowledge
Chapter 9. Summary