Product Description

Clinical governance enables healthcare professionals to reduce clinical risks, enhance clinical quality via the application of evidence–based practice and deliver good quality care. Clinical governance: a Guide to Implementation for Healthcare Professionals (second edition) provides a comprehensive overview of what is meant by clinical governance and how it can be implemented in practice.

Clinical governance: a Guide to Implementation for Healthcare Professionals (second edition) provides step–by–step practical advice, facilitating better understanding of the key principles of clinical governance. This second edition has been fully revised and updated to reflect recent legal changes and developments in patient involvement and continuing professional development. Each chapter includes reflective questions, activities and case studies taken from clinical practice as well as a full list of references and further reading.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #83760 in Books
• Published on: 2007-01-24
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Review
"This book is a little treasure for anyone wanting to obtain practical, easy to read information about all aspects of clinical governance."
Nursing Times, 2 Oct 2007

From the Publisher
* New edition of popular accessible text
* Focuses on the needs of frontline staff
* Tackles practical implications of clinical governance in everyday practice
* Enables staff to improve clinical practice and deliver high quality care
* New chapter explores the impact of clinical governance within the NHS
* Includes reflective questions and case studies

From the Back Cover
Clinical governance enables healthcare professionals to reduce clinical risks, enhance clinical quality via the application of evidence–based practice and deliver good quality care. Clinical governance: a Guide to Implementation for Healthcare Professionals (second edition) provides a comprehensive overview of what is meant by clinical governance and how it can be implemented in practice.

Clinical governance: a Guide to Implementation for Healthcare Professionals (second edition) provides step–by–step practical advice, facilitating better understanding of the key principles of clinical governance. This second edition has been fully revised and updated to reflect recent legal changes and developments in patient involvement and continuing professional development. Each chapter includes reflective questions, activities and case studies taken from clinical practice as well as a full list of references and further reading.

Customer Reviews

Clinical governance
Looking for a comprehensive, if somewhat verbose, introduction to clinical governance? Then you may just like this book.

The authors discuss the social, political and professional factors that brought clinical governace to healthcare. They describe the components of effective clinical governance. They explain implementation of clinical governance and provide some case studies. There is also a detailed discussion of the barriers to implementing clinical governance. There are some questions to encourage readers to reflect at the beginning of each chapter. I found this quite stimulating and I felt much more engaged with the text in my quest for answers. You can compare your thoughts with the 'exercise answers' at the end of the chapter.

The downside is that the writing is so formal that it seems stilted. In their commendable effort to be thorough, the authors have also provided too much information. This turns an otherwise good book into a somewhat tedious read. Pity really, it could have earned five sparkling stars rather than three dull stars.

Great book.
I haven't so far been through too much of the book, but it strikes me to be a well organised and concise document, covering most of the important areas about clinical governance, and it is easy to read and understand. I recommend this book to all health care professionals who are involved in implementing clinical governance. It's much better than an older book I bought a few years ago, written by an authoritative panel of authors.