📗 Libro en inglés AN INTRODUCTION TO CLINICAL GOVERNANCE AND PATIENT SAFETY

Clinical Governance is integral to healthcare and all doctors must have an understanding of both basic principles and how to apply them in daily practice Within the Clinical Governance framework patient safety is the top priority for all healthcare organisations with the prevention of avoidable harm a key goal Traditionally medical training has concentrated on the acquisition of knowledge and skills related to diagnostic intervention and therapeutic procedures The need to focus on non technical aspects of clinical practice including communication and team working is now evident ensuring tomorrow s staff are competent to function effectively in any healthcare facility This book provides a guide to how healthcare systems work their structure regulation and inspection and key areas including risk management resource effectiveness and wider aspects of knowledge management Changing curricula at undergraduate level reflect this but post graduate training is lagging behind and does not always equip trainees appropriately for a hectic clinical environment An Introduction to Clinical Governance and Patient Safety presents a simple overview of clinical governance in context highlighting important principles required to function effectively in a pressurised hea