[PHNURSES] AHRQ-Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses.

[Mary Pat Couig]

Nurses play a vital role in improving the safety and quality of patient
care-not only in the hospital or ambulatory treatment facility, but also of
community-based care and the care performed by family members. Nurses need
to know what proven techniques and interventions they can use to enhance
patient outcomes.

 

To address this need, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ),
with additional funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has
prepared a comprehensive, 1,400-page, handbook for nurses on patient safety
and quality-Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for
Nurses. (AHRQ Publication No. 08-0043). 

Experts in the field reviewed the literature, and their contributions are
grouped into these sections:

Patient <http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nurseshdbk/#patientsafety#patientsafety>
Safety and Quality

Evidence-based
<http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nurseshdbk/#evidencebased#evidencebased>  Practice

Patient-centered
<http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nurseshdbk/#patientcentered#patientcentered>  Care

Working
<http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nurseshdbk/#workingconditions#workingconditions>
Conditions-Work Environment

Critical
<http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nurseshdbk/#criticalopportunities#criticalopportun
ities>  Opportunities for Patient Safety and Quality 

Tools <http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nurseshdbk/#toolsforquality#toolsforquality>


 

The direct link to the book is at www.ahrq.gov/qual/nurseshdbk
<https://webmail.hhs.gov/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/
nurseshdbk> .

Mary Pat Couig, MPH, RN, FAAN

Special Projects Coordinator

ASTDN

 

 

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