Recognising the signs
Jeremy
Finch Senior lecturer nursing, Manchester Metropolitan University
A one-day course is enabling students to identify and rescue deteriorating patients, writes Jeremy Finch
An analysis of serious patient safety incidents in 2007 found that in one 12-month period, 11 per cent of reports related to patient deterioration that was unrecognised or not acted on.
Nursing Standard.
25, 11, 61-61.
doi: 10.7748/ns.25.11.61.s56
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