Developing A Culture Of Safety

"To continuously improve health care for the public, in collaboration with other stakeholders, by evaluating health care organizations and inspiring them to excel in providing safe and effective care of the highest quality and value” (Jointcommission.org, 2015). These requirements are regimented in the National Patient Safety Goals and are enforced via surveys and internal inspections to ensure that healthcare institutions abide by the safety mechanisms put in place to facilitate the optimal patient outcomes and environments.

Over time the health care industry has become more complex. Health care is rapidly evolving and continuing to complicate our delivery of care, which in turn has the same effect on quality of care. This steady evolution and change results in nursing shortages and an increase in the prevalence of errors being made. In hopes of preventing these errors and creating safe and high quality patient care, with the focus on new and improved ways of thinking, The Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) initiative was developed. The QSEN focuses on the following competencies: patient-centered care, quality improvement, safety, and teamwork and collaboration. Their initiatives work to prepare and develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that are necessary to make improvements in the quality and safety of health care systems (Qsen.org, 2014).

Keeping patients safe is essential in today’s health care system, but patient safety events that violate that safety are increasing each year. It was only recently, that the focus on patient safety was reinforced by a report prepared by Institute of medicine (IOM) entitled ” To err is human, building a safer health system”(Wakefield & Iliffe,2002).This report found that approx-imately 44,000 to 98,000 deaths occur each year due to medical errors and that the majority was preventable. Deaths due to medical errors exceed deaths due to many other causes such as like HIV infections, breast cancer and even traffic accidents (Wakefield & Iliffe, 2002). After this IOM reports, President Clinton established quality interagency

As the Joint Commission aims to nationally improve health care systems through health care organizations collaborations, it publishes recommended patient safety goals. As stated by the Joint Commission, “the first obligation of health care is to “do no harm””. The Joint Commission’s 2015 National Patient Safety Goals for hospitals include : Identify patients correctly; Improve staff communication; Use

One of the primary goals of patient care has been safety for a long time. How patient safety is regulated has changed throughout history. Between 1917 and 1918, the American College of Surgeons developed The Minimum Standards for Hospitals which was a one page document that lead to The Joint Commission (TJC, 2014). Founded in 1951 with accreditation beginning January 1953, TJC is currently the oldest and largest organizations setting standards for patient safety (TJC, 2014). The American College of Surgeons required ethics for physicians in 1951 (TJC, 2014). Today TJC and other credentialing organizations require all staff, clinical or not, to participant in patient safety goals. Regardless of the organization you work for, patient safety will

You are so correct, it is importance for us health professionals to share a common understanding of patient safety standards and practices and improve patient safety depends largely on the ways in which we; share and learn with other health professionals as well as students. We must improve the way we treat each other by using respect and compassion, and learn from one another and from patient safety events or any challenges that impact the ability for us as health professionals, to improve is to ensure better patient outcomes and patient experience in (Milstead 2015 [Power Point slide 6-10).

Finally, we must address accountability. We know hospitals, and long-term facilities can be a hectic work place and often face challenges of staffing issues and so forth. Nonetheless, we must be consistent. Godlock, Christiansen, and Feider (2016), recommends the use of a safety team in facility; some responsibilities may include identifying prevention strategies, education and teaching, spot checks, as well as patient chart reviews all of which promotes compliance and

This article was selected as it explained and discussed the probable standardized procedure that health care organizations may have to follow for improvements in patient safety. This article explains how the inter-personal and professional relationship of different health care providers need to be maintained for better health care as explained in one of the chapters of health care management.

Patient safety one of the driving forces of healthcare. Patient safety is defined as, “ the absence of preventable harm to a patient during the process of healthcare or as the prevention of errors and adverse events caused by the provision of healthcare rather than the patient’s underlying disease process. (Kangasniemi, Vaismoradi, Jasper, &Turunen, 2013)”. It was just as important in the past as it is day. Our healthcare field continues to strive to make improvement toward safer care for patients across the country.

A process was designed by Ascension Health to eliminate preventable injuries and deaths within five years by the identification of causes to patient harm. They worked to define best practices and use them to improve these areas of patient safety by creating a structure for continuous improvement. A Clinical Excellence Team was put together to help guide the pursuits of the goal. Prototype strategies were put together at eight volunteer or alpha sites. These sites were chosen based on past performance for leading quality improvement. No mention was made regarding financial resources except that organizational members recognize the business case supporting the changes (“Case Study,” 2006).

Lisa brings a wealth of experience to her new role. Most recently, she served as the Director of Patient Safety at WPH, and previously as a system-wide member of the Patient Safety team. Prior to her current role, Lisa’s career began as a staff nurse in the Medical Surgical ICU at St. Francis. She practiced in North Carolina and worked as staff and department educator in Critical Care

After reviewing the National Patient Safety Foundation website and the information about Lucian Leape, this writer feels that this is a topic that is getting quite a bit of focus to find ways to improve patient safety and for healthcare leaders to collaborate to improve healthcare. One thing that Dr. Leape says that this writer agrees with is that doctors, nurses, and pharmacists among other healthcare workers, need to work together to focus on patient safety and engage with each other to improve patient outcomes (Johnson, 2012). The Lucian Leape Institute puts a strong focus on educating physicians in medical school about patient safety, but also to engage patients and be transparent in their care and make healthcare a field where physicians

Since the release of the Institute of Medicine’s 1999 report, To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System, the healthcare industry has struggled to make substantial headway in improving the quality of care and safety of patients.Continued problems with healthcare quality have caused mounting public frustration. For an industry in which the stakes are high and small problems can mean the difference between life and death, operations tend to be far from reliable. This paper will discuss the tenets of healthcare quality and safety, and highlight some of the organizations leading healthcare quality and safety efforts today. The impact of regulations on workflow and patient outcomes will be explored as well as how a Christian worldview influences ones commitment to supporting healthcare quality and safety.

There are a number of situations that arise in healthcare every day and each situation is handled differently. “Patient safety is one of the most prominent healthcare challenges worldwide”(Brasaite, 2015). For improving health care it is important to share the responsibility for patient safety between all caregivers. Patients are often unintentionally injured as a consequence of their treatment; therefore, it takes many people to help an organization run efficiently and effectively. It takes teamwork, collaboration, coordination, and communication. Moreover, “patients arrive in the healthcare system trusting that the system will not harm them, but this may not always be true” (Brasaite, 2015). Ensuring the highest quality of care possible to all patients requires understanding and adapting care to the patients’ unique needs and perspectives. Only then can high-quality care be achieved in a patient-centered manner.

In today’s health care system, “quality” and “safety” are one in the same when it comes to patient care. As Florence Nightingale described our profession long ago, it takes work and vigilance to ensure we are doing the best we can to care for our patients. (Mitchell, 2008)