Patient unit safety and care quality : promotion of self-healing systems during hospital stays / Huey-Ming Tzeng and Chang-Yi Yin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Demanding a safe hospital stay -- The caring philosophy in acute hospital settings -- No safety, no quality: initiatives for promoting patient safety in hospitals -- Problematic patient safety areas in hospitals -- Inpatient falls -- Health care-associated pressure ulcers -- Serious injury or death in physical restraints or seclusion -- Inpatient suicide -- Medication errors -- Transfusion errors -- Wrong-site surgery -- Treatment delays -- Operative and postoperative errors and complications -- Health care-associated infections -- The impact of hospital human resource management on patient outcomes -- Unsafe design of patient rooms -- Say NO to poor care safety I: poor communication among health care providers -- Say NO to poor care safety II: incorrect patient identification in the process of providing care -- Learning the facts from research I: the family involvement culture in the US hospital environment -- Learning the facts from research II: historical human resource issues related to hospital nursing -- Learning the facts from research III: the linkage between nurse staffing and inpatient fall rates.