RT Book, Section
A1 Oster, Cynthia A.
A1 Braaten, Jane S.
SR Print(0)
ID 1189260113
T1 Foreword
T2 High Reliability Organizations: A Healthcare Handbook for Patient Safety & Quality, 2e
YR 2021
FD 2021
PB Sigma Theta Tau International
PP New York, NY
SN 9781948057776
LK apn.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1189260113
RD 2024/04/19
AB 2020  was  designated  by  the  World  Health  Organization  as  the  Year  of  the  Nurse  and  Midwife.  Instead,  it  has  been  the  year  of  COVID-19.  Healthcare  organizations  across  the  continuum  of  care  have  been  besieged  with  critically  ill  people,  with  shortages  of  supplies  and  equipment  to  deliver  care,  and  with  frontline  clinicians  often  forced  to  provide  care  with  insufficient  personal  protection  equipment.  The  pandemic—which  already  has  claimed  more  than  215,000  lives  (Johns  Hopkins  University  of  Medicine  Coronavirus  Resource  Center,  2020)  and  more  than  1,700  healthcare  providers  (Frellick,  2020)  in  the  US—must  lead  to  systemic  change  in  the  healthcare  industry.  If  ever  we  have  been  in  need  of  highly  reliable  healthcare  organizations,  this  is  the  time.