Crisis Management in Acute Care Settings

This comprehensive book addresses all issues relevant to error prevention and safe practice in the acute and emergency health-care setting. Case reports and proven strategies help to ground psychological theory in daily practice.

A comprehensive outline of all relevant issues of error prevention and safe practice in the acute and emergency health care Case reports and proven strategies help to ground psychological theory in daily practice Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt
Basic Principles: Error, Complexity, and Human Behavior.- The Human Factors: Errors and Skills.- The Challenge of Acute Healthcare.- The Nature of Error.- The Psychology of Human Action.- Individual Factors of Behavior.- Human Perception: the Way We See Things.- Information Processing and Mental Models: World Views.- Goals and Plans: Turning Points for Success.- Attention: in the Focus of Consciousness.- Stress.- Strategies for Action: Ways to Achieve Good Decisions.- The Team.- The Key to Success: Teamwork.- Speech is Golden: Communication.- Leadership.- The Organization.- Organizations and Human Error.- Reliable Acute Care Medicine.