
A Socio-cultural Perspective on Patient Safety
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This edited volume of original chapters brings together researchers from around the world who are exploring the facets of health care organization and delivery that are sometimes marginal to mainstream patient safety theories and methodologies but offer important insights into the socio-cultural and organizational context of patient safety. By examining these critical insights or perspectives and drawing upon theories and methodologies often neglected by mainstream safety researchers, this collection shows we can learn more about not only the barriers and drivers to implementing patient safety programmes, but also about the more fundamental issues that shape notions of safety, alternate strategies for enhancing safety, and the wider implications of the safety agenda on the future of health care delivery. In so doing, A Socio-cultural Perspective on Patient Safety challenges the taken-for-granted assumptions around fundamental philosophical and political issues upon which mainstream orthodoxy relies. The book draws upon a range of theoretical and empirical approaches from across the social sciences to investigate and question the patient safety movement. Each chapter takes as its focus and question a particular aspect of the patient safety reforms, from its policy context and theoretical foundations to its practical application and manifestation in clinical practice, whilst also considering the wider implications for the organization and delivery of health care services. Accordingly, the chapters each draw upon a distinct theoretical or methodological approach to critically explore specific dimensions of the patient safety agenda. Taken as a whole, the collection advances a strong, coherent argument that is much needed to counter some of the uncritical assumptions that need to be described and analyzed if patient safety is indeed to be achieved.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |9 pages
Introduction: A Socio-cultural Perspective on Patient Safety
part 1|38 pages
Patients and Publics
chapter 1|16 pages
‘All News is Bad News’: Patient Safety in the News Media
chapter 2|20 pages
Broadening the Patient Safety Movement: Listening, Involving and Learning from Patients and the Public
part 2|44 pages
Clinical Practice
chapter 3|19 pages
Narrowing the Gap Between Safety Policy and Practice: The Role of Nurses’ Implicit Theories and Heuristics
chapter 4|22 pages
Resources of Strength: An Exnovation of Hidden Competences to Preserve Patient Safety
part 3|38 pages
Technology
chapter 5|19 pages
Deviantly Innovative: When Risking Patient Safety is the Right Thing To Do
chapter 6|16 pages
The Precarious Gap between Information Technology and Patient Safety: Lessons from Medication Systems
part 4|37 pages
Knowledge Sharing
chapter 7|18 pages
The Politics of Learning: The Dilemma for Patient Safety
chapter 8|17 pages
Exploring the Contributions of Professional-Practice Networks to Knowledge Sharing, Problem-Solving and Patient Safety
part 5|40 pages
Learning