Risk and Nursing Practice

Citation

(2006), "Risk and Nursing Practice", International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Vol. 19 No. 7. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijhcqa.2006.06219gae.002

Risk and Nursing Practice

Paul GodinPalgrave MacmillanISBN 1 403943117

Keywords: Risk management, Health services, Patients

Risk and Nursing Practice introduces the reader to a broad range of sociological theory that has arisen in recent decades about the ’risk society’. Theories about risk and society are specifically related to issues of health and illness and more specifically to aspects of health care and nursing practice that have become highly thematic, such as violence against nurses, techniques of risk assessment and risk management, and the balancing of risk avoidance against the opportunities risk taking offers.

Contents include:

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  Introduction; P. Godin;

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  “Managing risk in community practice: nursing risk and decision making”; A. Alaszewski;

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  “A ‘risk of the job’? Violence against nurses from patients and the public as an emerging policy issue”; M.A. Elston, J. Gabe and M. O’Beirne;

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  “The rise of risk thinking in mental health nursing”; P. Godin;

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  “Different understandings of risk within a forensic mental health care unit: a cultural approach”; P. Godin, J. Davies, B. Heyman and M. Shaw;

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  “The very loud discourses of risk in pregnancy; K. MacKinnon and L. McCoy;

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  “Exploring the issues of risk and freedom for parents of children with life limiting, life threatening and chronic health problems”; D. Pontin;

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  “The tension between autonomy and safety in nursing adults with learning disabilities”; B. Heyman and J. Davies;

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  “Balancing risk and independence in nursing older adults”; K. Horton;

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  “Managing risk – the case of sexualities and sexual health”; A. Pryce; and

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  “Final thoughts”; P. Godin.