Patient safety is a predominant feature of quality healthcare and something that every patient has the right to expect. As a nurse, you must consider the safety of the patient as paramount in every aspect of your role; and it is now an increasingly important topic in pre-registration nursing programmes. This book aims to provide you with a greater understanding of how to manage patient safety and risk in your practice. The book focuses on the essentials that you need to know, and therefore provides a clear pathway through what can sometimes seem an overwhelmingly complex mass of rules, procedures and possible options.

Key features:

· A practical introduction to patient safety and risk management written specifically for nurses and nursing students

· Case studies and scenarios help you to apply patient safety and risk management principles to actual practice

· Each chapter is mapped to the relevant NMC standards and Essential Skills Clusters so that you can see how you are meeting the professional requirements

· Activities throughout help you to think critically and reflect on practice.

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.

Introduction
Patient Safety and Quality
Risk and Healthcare
Accidents and Incidents - What Went Wrong?
Medicine Administration and Safety
Raising Concerns: Safeguarding the Vulnerable
The Nurse: Accountability and Professional Regulation
Human Error: Systems and Human Factors in Patient Safety
Measuring Patient Safety and Satisfaction
The Influence of Leadership and Culture in Managing Incidents
Patient Safety - What Next?