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Crisis Management in Acute Care Settings Human Factors and Team Psychology in a High-Stakes Environment /

This book is unique in providing a comprehensive overview of the human factors issues relevant to patient safety during acute care. By elucidating the principles of human behavior and decision-making in critical situations and identifying frequent sources of human error, it will help healthcare prof...

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Main Authors: St.Pierre, Michael. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Hofinger, Gesine. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Simon, Robert. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edition:3rd ed. 2016.
Subjects:
Anesthesiology.
Emergency medicine.
Critical care medicine.
Psychology.
Emergency Medicine.
Intensive / Critical Care Medicine.
General Psychology.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41427-0
Table of Contents:
  • Part I 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
  • Part II 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: The Focus of Consciousness
  • Stress
  • Strategies for Action: Ways to Achieve Good Decisions
  • Part III The Team
  • The Key to Success: Teamwork
  • Speech Is Golden: Communication
  • Leadership
  • Part IV Error and Safety in Organizations
  • Organization, Errors, and Safety
  • Strategies for Patient Safety
  • Learning for Safety.

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