Essentials of Nursing Practice
Second Edition
Chapter 17: Ensuring quality and effective management of risk
Journal Article 1: This article explores the relationship between the traditional governance-based approach to managing safety and the more proactive transformational approaches that utilise improvement science.
Ramsden, S. (2012). The NHS reform agenda and patient safety. Clinical Risk, 18(2), 43–45.
Journal Article 2: A study of the relationship between leadership walkrounds and patient safety. The leadership walkround is a concept practised in the USA which is gaining wider recognition and implementation in the UK.