Safety of care by caregivers of cancer patients.

Barbara A Given

Review

Safety of care by caregivers of cancer patients.

August 21, 2019

Given BA. Semin Oncol Nurs. 2019;35(4):374-379.

View more articles from the same authors.

Cancer patients often rely on family members or paid caregivers to assist with care maintenance at home, such as taking medications and mobility support. This review highlights common safety gaps in home cancer care. The authors suggest that nurses can help assess caregiver knowledge and provide education to address safety issues.

PubMed citation

Available at

Related Resources From the Same Author(s)

Fall prevention in hospitals: an integrative review.

September 21, 2011

Hospital implementation of computerized provider order entry systems: results from the 2003 Leapfrog Group quality and safety survey.

November 16, 2005

Nurse staffing and medication errors: cross-sectional or longitudinal relationships?

October 29, 2008

Patient safety, quality care, and service utilization with PLATO (Physician Leadership for Accurate and Timely Orders): a pilot study.

August 26, 2009

The effect of staff nurses' shift length and fatigue on patient safety and nurses' health: from the National Association of Neonatal Nurses.

October 21, 2015

Antecedents of severe and nonsevere medication errors.

April 22, 2009

Quality and strength of patient safety climate on medical–surgical units.

March 11, 2009

A systematic review of clinical decision support systems for clinical oncology practice.

May 15, 2019

A descriptive study of nurse-reported missed care in neonatal intensive care units.

May 6, 2015

Effects of technological interventions on the safety of a medication-use system.

January 17, 2007

Association of nurse workload with missed nursing care in the neonatal intensive care unit.

November 21, 2018

Exploring organizational context and structure as predictors of medication errors and patient falls.

May 28, 2008

Effects of learning climate and registered nurse staffing on medication errors.

January 5, 2011

An investigation of the relationship between safety climate and medication errors as well as other nurse and patient outcomes.

December 13, 2006

Impact of SARS-CoV-2 on hospital acquired infection rates in the United States: predictions and early results.

November 25, 2020

The nurse's medication day.

August 29, 2012

Use of temporary nurses and nurse and patient safety outcomes in acute care hospital units.

October 6, 2010

Minimizing Opioid Prescribing in Surgery (MOPiS) initiative: an analysis of implementation barriers.

April 17, 2019

An examination of technical efficiency, quality, and patient safety in acute care nursing units.

January 20, 2010

A system-wide initiative to prevent retained vaginal sponges.

September 14, 2011

Achieving rapid door-to-balloon times: how top hospitals improve complex clinical systems.

March 8, 2006

Rapid response systems: a prospective study of response times.

August 17, 2011

The nurse's role in medication safety.

April 22, 2015

Journal Article

Study

Reducing hospital harm: establishing a command centre to foster situational awareness.

March 29, 2023

Misgivings.

October 21, 2009

Causes of near misses: perceptions of perioperative nurses.

June 8, 2011

Effect of residency duty-hour limits: views of key clinical faculty.

August 1, 2007

When should a leader apologize—and when not?

April 19, 2006

Keeping an eye on patient safety using human factors engineering (HFE): a family affair for the hospitalized child.

February 3, 2010

Event reporting: the value of a nonpunitive approach.

November 26, 2008

Relationships among teams, culture, safety, and cost outcomes.

September 20, 2006

Code debriefing from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Team Training Program improves the cardiopulmonary resuscitation code process.

September 1, 2010

Scientific inquiry. 100,000 lives campaign and the application to children.

May 3, 2006

Implementing a safe and reliable process for medication administration.

June 6, 2012

Alcoholism and American healthcare: the case for a patient safety approach.

August 17, 2022

Ensuring patient safety through effective leadership behaviour: a literature review.

November 11, 2009

Patient safety: through the eyes of your peers.

July 5, 2006

Ensuring staff safety when treating potentially violent patients.

January 18, 2017

Crushing or splitting medications: unrecognized hazards.

January 25, 2012

Tenfold therapeutic dosing errors in young children reported to US poison control centers.

July 22, 2009

Early warning systems: the next level of rapid response.

January 25, 2012

Nurses' role in medical error recovery: an integrative review.

April 20, 2016

What happens when things go wrong?

February 16, 2011

Impact of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist relative to its design and intended use: a systematic review and meta-meta-analysis.

November 24, 2021

An examination of factors that predict the perioperative culture of safety.

June 9, 2021

Barcode medication administration work-arounds: a systematic review and implications for nurse executives.

November 27, 2013

Email for communicating results of diagnostic medical investigations to patients.

October 10, 2012

Decreasing patient misidentification before chemotherapy administration.

December 16, 2009

Applying Lean methods to improve quality and safety in surgical sterile instrument processing.

March 13, 2013

Hospital nurses' perceptions of human factors contributing to nursing errors.

June 10, 2015

Time to take hearing loss seriously.

February 19, 2020

More than a tick box: medical checklist development, design, and use.

August 23, 2017

Using Lean to improve medication administration safety: in search of the "perfect dose."

May 1, 2013

Room of hazards: a comparison of differences in safety hazard recognition among various hospital-based healthcare professionals and trainees in a simulated patient room.

July 27, 2022

How residents think and make medical decisions: implications for education and patient safety.

August 15, 2007

Implementation of a custom alert to prevent medication-timing errors associated with computerized prescriber order entry.

September 16, 2015

Using Lean "automation with a human touch" to improve medication safety: a step closer to the "perfect dose."

July 30, 2014

Physician practice patterns resemble ACGME duty hours.

July 8, 2009

Patient characteristics and the occurrence of never events.

February 24, 2010

Speaking up about patient-perceived serious visit note errors: patient and family experiences and recommendations.

January 13, 2021

Developing perioperative Covid-19 testing protocols to restore surgical services.

July 22, 2020

The challenges to transparency in reporting medical errors.

December 2, 2009

Creating a culture of safety around bar-code medication administration: an evidence-based evaluation framework.

January 20, 2016

Identifying hospital-wide harm: a set of ICD-9–CM-coded conditions associated with increased cost, length of stay, and risk of mortality.

December 17, 2014

No interruptions please: impact of a no interruption zone on medication safety in intensive care units.

January 27, 2010

The accuracy of trigger tools to detect preventable adverse events in primary care: a systematic review.

March 21, 2018

Increasing patient–clinician concordance about medical error disclosure through the patient TIPS model.

July 12, 2017

ACOG SCOPE: Safety Certification in Outpatient Practice Excellence for Women's Health.

September 5, 2012

Electronic prescribing and other forms of technology to reduce inappropriate medication use and polypharmacy in older people: a review of current evidence.

July 18, 2012

Use of maternal early warning trigger tool reduces maternal morbidity.

April 6, 2016

Implementing a national program to reduce catheter-associated urinary tract infection: a quality improvement collaboration of state hospital associations, academic medical centers, professional societies, and governmental agencies.

December 18, 2013

2010 Annual National Patient Safety Foundation Congress: conference proceedings.

September 8, 2010

How long and how much are nurses now working?

April 19, 2006

Errors in drug computations during newborn intensive care.

March 27, 2005

Culture of safety: impact on improvement in infection prevention process and outcomes.

February 3, 2021

Incidence of multiple sclerosis misdiagnosis in referrals to two academic centers.

May 1, 2019

Perceptions of pediatric hospital safety culture in the United States: an analysis of the 2016 Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture.

April 24, 2019

Nursing home patient safety culture perceptions among US and immigrant nurses.

January 24, 2018

Accuracy of harm scores entered into an event reporting system.

April 22, 2015

Safety events in pediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.

September 13, 2017

Exploring new avenues to assess the sharp end of patient safety: an analysis of nationally aggregated peer review data.

October 8, 2014

Sensemaking of patient safety risks and hazards.

July 12, 2006

Comparing catheter-associated urinary tract infection prevention programs between Veterans Affairs nursing homes and non–Veterans Affairs nursing homes.

April 5, 2017

Barriers to and facilitators of bedside nursing handover: a systematic review and meta-synthesis.

July 7, 2021

Impact of computerized physician order entry on medication prescription errors in the intensive care unit: a controlled cross-sectional trial.

March 1, 2006

Balancing patient-centered and safe pain care for nonsurgical inpatients: clinical and managerial perspectives.

January 16, 2019

Safety trade-offs in home care during COVID-19: a mixed methods study capturing the perspective of frontline workers.

September 29, 2021

Adverse outcomes of polypharmacy in older people: systematic review of reviews.

March 18, 2020

Decreasing prescribing errors during pediatric emergencies: a randomized simulation trial.

August 2, 2017

Achieving a climate for patient safety by focusing on relationships.

October 1, 2014

Predicting computerized physician order entry system adoption in US hospitals: can the federal mandate be met?

January 23, 2008

The need to include assisted living in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.

May 20, 2020

Medication event huddles: a tool for reducing adverse drug events.

January 15, 2014

Comparison of health care worker satisfaction before vs after implementation of a communication and optimal resolution program in acute care hospitals.

April 5, 2023

Clinical scenarios: enhancing the skill set of the nurse as a vigilant guardian.

September 15, 2010

Staff attitudes about event reporting and patient safety culture in hospital transfusion services.

June 11, 2008

A program to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infection in acute care.

June 8, 2016

Patients and families as teachers: a mixed methods assessment of a collaborative learning model for medical error disclosure and prevention.

July 13, 2016

Blood bank specimen mislabeling: a College of American Pathologists Q-Probes study of 41,333 blood bank specimens in 30 institutions.

June 7, 2017

Navigating a ship with a broken compass: evaluating standard algorithms to measure patient safety.

September 14, 2016

Related Resources

Patient safety in home health care: a grounded theory study.

May 24, 2023

Preventing home medication errors.

April 12, 2023

The effect of transitions intervention to ensure patient safety and satisfaction when transferred from hospital to home health care-a systematic review.

March 8, 2023

Registered nurses' efforts to ensure safety for home-dwelling older patients.

February 22, 2023

Exploring nursing-sensitive events in home healthcare: a national multicenter cohort study using a trigger tool.

January 25, 2023

Self-reported gaps in care coordination and preventable adverse outcomes among older adults receiving home health care.

January 18, 2023

Reducing potential errors associated with insulin administration: an integrative review.

December 14, 2022

Prevent administration of ear drops into the eyes.

December 14, 2022

WebM&M Cases

Be Picky about your PICCs—Fragmented Care and Poor Communication at Discharge Leads to a PICC without a Plan.

September 28, 2022

Families’ experiences of central-line infection in children: a qualitative study.

September 7, 2022

The diagnostic and triage accuracy of digital and online symptom checker tools: a systematic review.

August 31, 2022

Analysis of readmissions in a mobile integrated health transitional care program using root cause analysis and common cause analysis.

May 25, 2022

Patient safety in home care: a multicenter cross-sectional study about medication errors and medication management of nurses.

May 18, 2022

Medication errors' causes analysis in home care setting: a systematic review.

February 9, 2022

US emergency department visits for acute harms from over-the-counter cough and cold medications, 2017-2019.

December 15, 2021

The work of nurses to provide good and safe services to children receiving hospital-at-home: a qualitative interview study from the perspectives of hospital nurses and physicians.

October 20, 2021

A systematic review on pediatric medication errors by parents or caregivers at home.

August 11, 2021

Geriatric medication reconciliation in the home setting.

July 21, 2021

WebM&M Cases

Hyponatremia Secondary to Home Parenteral Nutrition Error

May 26, 2021

Communication on safe caregiving between community nurse case managers and family caregivers.

April 7, 2021

Education and training of nurses in the use of advanced medical technologies in home care related to patient safety: a cross-sectional survey.

March 24, 2021

Patient safety. Factors for and perceived consequences of nursing errors by nursing staff in home care services.

March 3, 2021

Home health staff perspectives on infection prevention and control: implications for Coronavirus Disease 2019.

December 23, 2020

Patient errors in use of injectable antidiabetic medications: a need for improved clinic-based education.

November 4, 2020

Patient Safety Innovations

Affordable Housing Community Offers Seniors Onsite Health Care Coordination and Support, Reducing Hospital Admissions and Falls and Improving Resident Health

June 12, 2020

Clinical and economic impact of medication reconciliation in cancer patients: a systematic review.

April 22, 2020

Are vital home health workers now a safety threat?

April 8, 2020

Homecare safety virtual quality improvement collaboratives

February 26, 2020

Oral chemotherapy: a home safety educational framework for healthcare providers, patients, and caregivers.

February 19, 2020

Interview

In Conversation With... Heidi Wald, MD

November 26, 2019

See More About The Topic

Safety of care by caregivers of cancer patients.

Reducing hospital harm: establishing a command centre to foster situational awareness.

Affordable Housing Community Offers Seniors Onsite Health Care Coordination and Support, Reducing Hospital Admissions and Falls and Improving Resident Health

Connect With Us

Sign up for Email Updates

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Safety of care by caregivers of cancer patients.

Reducing hospital harm: establishing a command centre to foster situational awareness.

Affordable Housing Community Offers Seniors Onsite Health Care Coordination and Support, Reducing Hospital Admissions and Falls and Improving Resident Health

Connect With Us

Sign up for Email Updates

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

PSNet Log in

Submit Your Case

Continue as a Guest

Continue Logged In

Submit Your Case

Continue as a Guest

Already have a PSNet

Account?

New Users

Submit Your Innovations

Continue as a Guest

Continue Logged In

Submit Your Innovations

Continue as a Guest

Continue logged in

New Users to the PSNet site