Clinical Reasoning + Critical Conversations Patient Safety

Tracy Levett-Jones is a Distinguished Professor and Head of School in the School of Nursing & Midwifery at the University of Technology Sydney. Her program of research focuses on patient safety, empathy, belongingness, clinical reasoning, and simulation.

Clinical Reasoning

Chapter 1 Clinical reasoning: What it is and why it matters
Chapter 2 Caring for a person experiencing an adverse drug reaction
Chapter 3 Caring for a person with fluid and electrolyte imbalance
Chapter 4 Caring for a person experiencing pain
Chapter 5 Caring for a child with type 1 diabetes
Chapter 6 Caring for a person experiencing respiratory distress and hypoxia
Chapter 7 Caring for a person with a cardiac condition
Chapter 8 Caring for a person with an acquired brain injury
Chapter 9 Caring for a person receiving blood component therapies
Chapter 10 Caring for a person with sepsis
Chapter 11 Caring for a person with substance dependence and complex post-traumatic distress syndrome
Chapter 12 Caring for a person with Parkinson's disease
Chapter 13 Caring for a person experiencing an acute psychotic episode
Chapter 14 Caring for an older person with altered cognition
Chapter 15 Caring for a young person with a disability
Chapter 16 Caring for a person requiring palliative care
Chapter 17 Caring for a person who is refusing treatment

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A Critical Conversations for Patient Safety

Section 1 Communication and patient safety
Chapter 1: The relationship between communication and patient safety
Chapter 2 An introduction to communication skills
Chapter 3: Key attributes of patient-safe communication
Chapter 4: Why do patients complain about how health professionals communicate?
Chapter 5: An historical and cultural overview of health professionals' evolving team dynamics
Section 2: Improving inter-professional communication to promote patient safety and wellbeing
Chapter 6: Interpersonal communication for inter-professional collaboration
Chapter 7: Clinical handover
Chapter 8: Open disclosure
Chapter 9: Discharge planning and continuity of care
Chapter 10: Communicating to promote medication safety
Section 3: Improving therapeutic communication to promote patient safety and wellbeing
Chapter 11: Key attributes of therapeutic communication
Chapter 12: Communicating with older people
Chapter 13: Communicating with children and families
Chapter 14: Communicating with people who have a mental health problem
Chapter 15: Communicating with people who have communication impairment
Chapter 16: Communicating with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
Chapter 17: Communicating with people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds
Chapter 18: Communicating with people about their spiritual needs
Chapter 19: Communicating with people who are angry or aggressive
Chapter 20: Communicating about end-of-life care and decisions
Section 4: Workforce issues and patient safety
Chapter 21: When whistle-blowing seems like the only option
Chapter 22: Creating safe healthcare organisations

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