Building a Culture of Patient Safety Through Simulation: An Interprofessional Learning Model

by Kathleen Gallo PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN (Editor), Lawrence G. Smith MD, MACP (Editor)

Overview

"This book provides a dynamic and comprehensive interprofessional approach to building a culture of safety by using simulation across clinical and education spheres in healthcare... This is a comprehensive guide and resource for healthcare organizations, educators, and diverse interprofessional healthcare team members to use to improve patient safety efforts to adapt to the ever-changing, complex world of healthcare. Its practical application is pertinent in transforming the education and practice of medicine, nursing, and other health-related fields... Weighted Numerical Score: 99 - 5 Stars!"

Patricia West, MS, BSN
Michigan State University College of Nursing
Doody's Medical Reviews

ì[The authors] have brought together a core group of national leaders to produce what I think is a paradigm-busting book that will help to transform education at the graduate level in medicine, nursing, and all related fields. The book speaks expertly about the high fidelity of simulation training, the need for synthetic models, the adult learning theory behind the debriefÖit is a manifesto about where we must go as an interprofessional team, caring for the patient of the future.î

From the Foreword, by David B. Nash, MD, MBA
Dean, Jefferson School of Population Health
Philadelphia, PA

This groundbreaking book reflects the accomplishments of an internationally recognized leader of innovation regarding interprofessional clinical learning through simulation. Based on the North Shore-LIJ Health System corporate university experience, the book describes how this organization used simulation to successfully tackle the major interprofessional health issue of our time: patient safety. This health system created a transformative simulation center that involves nurses, doctors, and related health professionals whose work in clinical teams has resulted in measurable improvements in all aspects of clinical decision-making, critical thinking, teamwork, and communication skillsótoward the ultimate goal of improved patient safety.

Key Features:

• Describes in detail a groundbreaking system of achieving patient safety that uses interprofessional clinical learning through simulation
• Detailed case studies using concrete methods and examples illustrate the application of theory to practice
• Presents simulations scalable to any size organization and for use by health care professionals in all specialties
• Includes theoretical foundations and practical applications for teaching and learning
• Focuses on interprofessional cooperation and learning

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826169075
Publisher:	Springer Publishing Company
Publication date:	08/29/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	232
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Kathleen Gallo, PhD, MBA, RN, is Senior Vice President and Chief Learning Officer for the North Shore-LIJ Health System.

Larry Smith, MD, is Executive Vice President and Physician-in-Chief, North Shore-LIJ Health System, and Dean, Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine.

Table of Contents

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Part One: Call to Action: Improving Patient Safety

Introduction: Understanding and Using This Book

Chapter 1: Launching PSI: Establishing a Culture of Patient Safety

Chapter 2: Practical and Tactical Aspects of Debriefing

Chapter 3: Safety Hub: Research and Role of a Simulation Center in a System-wide Initiative to Reduce Sepsis

Part Two: Adult Interprofessional Teams

Chapter 4: Safety from the Outset: Creating an Interprofessional Team in a Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit

Chapter 5: More than Mock Codes: Simulation to Manage the Medically Ill Patient in a Psychiatric Setting

Chapter 6: Creating High-Fidelity and Hybrid Simulations for Residents in Emergency Medicine

Part Three Pediatric and Perinatal Interprofessional Teams

Chapter 7: Essential Maneuvers: Simulation as Part of a Long-Term Comprehensive Perinatal Safety Initiative

Chapter 8: Pediatric Emergencies: Targeted Programs and Crafted Scenarios

Chapter 9: Dimensions in Pediatrics Simulation: Teamwork and Communication

Part Four Special Topics

Chapter 10: Simulation Throughout: The Cardiology Fellows Program

Chapter 11: Strategy in Action: The Critical Care Nurse Fellowship

Chapter 12: Dancing with the Stones: In Situ Simulation for Lithotripsy

Chapter 13: ìDonít tell me to calm down!î De-escalation of the Agitated Patient in a Hospital Setting

Appendix: Patient Safety, Simulation, and Interprofessional Education Organizations

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Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Patricia West, MS, BSN (Michigan State University College of Nursing)
Description: This book provides a dynamic and comprehensive interprofessional approach to building a culture of safety by using simulation across clinical and education spheres in healthcare.
Purpose: The purpose is to present purposeful, interprofessional learning and simulation activities that align with the complexities of today's clinical realities across vast clinical domains to change and improve the approach to patient safety. The authors clearly meet their objectives. Healthcare organizational leaders, educators, and interprofessional care team members will gain an insightful roadmap to improving patient safety from this book.
Audience: The authors intend this book for healthcare leaders, educators, and interprofessional teams in medicine, nursing, and related fields that impact patient safety. The contributors have immense specialized knowledge and experience, which is evident in the chapters they write.
Features: The book is divided into four parts. The first part discusses the establishment of organizational priorities surrounding a culture of safety and the theoretical underpinnings supporting the use of interdisciplinary team simulation training programs to introduce practice and procedure changes within organizations. The second part provides examples of the use of interprofessional simulation activities in multiple specialty areas (e.g. critical care, behavioral health, pediatrics, and emergency medicine). Part three provides additional examples of several successful fellowship programs integrating simulation into training activities to continually improve patient safety. The fourth part contains the personal reflection of one of the book's expert contributors, which reveals the development of the concept of a learning organization in a healthcare system and the visionary commitment of leadership to patient safety. Unique features such as highlighted simulation scenarios, case studies, and useful websites facilitate understanding.
Assessment: This is a comprehensive guide and resource for healthcare organizations, educators, and diverse interprofessional healthcare team members to use to improve patient safety efforts to adapt to the ever-changing, complex world of healthcare. Its practical application is pertinent in transforming the education and practice of medicine, nursing, and other health-related fields.

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