Second Victim

Author: Sidney Dekker
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 146658341X
Category: Medical

Second Victim: Error, Guilt, Trauma, and Resilience

How do people cope with having "caused" a terrible accident? How do they cope when they survive and have to live with the consequences ever after? We tend to blame and forget professionals who cause incidents and accidents, but they are victims too. Download Second Victim medical books for free.
They are second victims whose experiences of an incident or adverse event can be as traumatic as that of the first victims'. Yet information on second victimhood and its relationship to safety, about what is known and what organizations might need to do, is difficult to find. Thoroughly exploring an emerging topic with great relevance to safety culture, Second Victim: Error, Guilt, Trauma, and Resilience examines the lived experience of second victims. It goes through what we know about tra Get Second Victim our bestseller medical books.

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