Improving Team Communication And Consistency Of Care

In accordance with the World Health Organisation (WHO 2008) checklist and Local trust policies, a team briefing was held before the day’s list started. The checklist is part of a second Global Patient Safety Challenge initiative entitled ‘Safe Surgery Saves Lives’, aimed at reducing the number of surgical deaths worldwide and was launched in June 2008. This not

The Safe Surgery Save Lives initiative undertaken by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2008 focused on implementation of a surgical checklist. The safety checklist requires the surgical site be checked during the check in process as well as during the surgical time out.

Conversely, the How to Guide: Five Steps to Safer Surgery is an adjunct to the World Health Organization (WHO), Safe Surgery Saves Lives: The Second Global Patient Safety Challenge. In this, the primary goal is to confirm that surgical teams not only communicate, but follow safety standards in order to minimize common mistakes and insure the best outcome for surgical patients. The standards included in this literature emphasize, “improving anesthetic safety practices, ensuring surgery is undertaken on the correct part of the body, preventing surgical site infections, and improving communication and teamwork” (Beaumont & Russell, 2012). The actual checklist consists of the following 5-step process:

In 2008, it was estimated that “medical errors total more than $19.5 billion” (Andel, 2012, p. 12). It is important to address and solve this problem at this time because the National Quality Forums (NQF) “never events” considers such events. Never events are events that occur that should have never occurred in the first place. Reducing and eventually eliminating wrong site surgeries will help improve patient safety in the operating room and become a leading example in improving patient safety in all aspects of healthcare.

Timing is everything when it comes to patient health outcomes. The purpose of this study is to provide a comprehensive review of the critical value reporting process critical results to the appropriate staff members according to the guidelines described in the National Patient Safety Goals (NPSG) of the Joint Commission Accreditation on Healthcare Organizations (JACHO). The Joint Commission has listed the following NPSG for 2015: identify patients correctly, improve staff communication, use alarm safely, prevent infection, identify patient safety risks, and prevent mistakes in surgery (The Joint Commission, 2015). A pathologist first introduced critical values by the name of Lundberg over 30 years ago. A critical value was viewed as an indication that the patient was in graved danger unless interventions were done to address the decline in health status (Plebani, M. and Piva E. (2010). The national patient safety goal that reflects the benchmark on our medical-surgical/Telemetry unit was staffing communication in reporting critical values. Our facility as a whole was at 73% compliance for staffing communication. Our hospital 's compliance goal for staffing communication is 90%. However, our unit is currently at 75% compliance. Various factors contribute to the timeliness and compliance of reporting critical values including work force, material and methods, and equipment.

At least half a million deaths per year could be prevented with effective implementation of systemic improvements in operating rooms. Specifically, multiple studies have found implementing the use of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist would significantly reduce surgical morbidity and mortality due to surgical errors.

All the pre-operative checks I did are important for patient safety and are derived from the World Health Organisation (WHO) surgical safety checklist (2008).The WHO Surgical Safety Checklist was developed after extensive consultation aiming to decrease errors and adverse events, and increase teamwork and communication in surgery (WHO, 2014). The ward staff had already put on the anti –embolism stockings on the patient.

Your health care providers, including your surgical team, take many precautions to keep you safe during surgery. This sheet explains the steps that your health care providers take to prevent surgical error. It also lists some things you, your friends, and your family members can do to help reduce the risk of a surgical error.

The core purpose of the national patient safety goals is to indeed promote and improve patient safety. The Joint Commission (2015) lists several of them in its 2015 National Patient Safety Goals. One of the goals the author wants to elaborate more upon is: prevent mistakes in surgery. This paper will include an overview about the aforementioned national patient safety goal. It includes three methods to be followed to be able to achieve the said safety goal. The paper also highlights the importance of the issue to the general public, to the health care institutions, and to the health care professionals. Financial implications of not achieving the goal is also explored in this paper. This national patient safety goal is a multidisciplinary issue. The important roles of other professionals will be discussed as well as nursing leadership.

One of the primary goals in healthcare is patient safety. Goal one in The Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goals is to correctly identify the patient using two patient identifiers (The Joint Commission, 2017). For this reason, all healthcare facilities should have processes in place to prevent errors. Also recommended for patient safety is the use of the Universal Protocol to prevent wrong site, wrong procedure, and wrong patient surgery (The Joint Commission, 2017). Implementation of these two safety measures by Curative Health would help prevent potentially harmful errors in the future.

I include the surgical team in the implementation of this plan and always have my patient’s safety at the forefront. Is

One way for us to decrease the 400,000 deaths from medical mistakes every year is to require doctors to complete a checklist of requirements before surgeries. From a study conducted by the New England Journal of Medicine, in eight separate hospitals, when they adopted the checklist, the patient death rate fell more than 40% along with about a 30% drop in complications. This checklist includes items like verification that there is enough blood on hand if there is a risk of blood loss, confirmation that the medical images needed are present, approval of the identity of the patient and the nature of the procedure, and the nursing staff affirming that everything has been sterilized properly. This incredibly simple thing could save hundreds of thousands of lives.

Wrong-site surgery has been identified as a top priority in improving quality of care and increasing patient safety. As such, The Joint Commission 2015 Hospital National Patient Safety Goal includes the prevention of mistakes in surgery. The goal is to perform the correct surgery on the correct patient at the correct site, prior marking of the surgical site, and performing a time-out just prior to commencement of the surgery. The purpose of this paper is to create a root-cause analysis, present recommendations for improvement, present recommendations to prevent wrong-site surgery, identify the stakeholders and role players, present root-cause analysis charts, and provide an overall of lessons learned throughout the course.

Errors in medicine are unfortunately plentiful, and are also oftentimes preventable. Even with technology, regulations, and procedures designed to improve health care and reduce errors, the occurrences are still much too high. Recent statistics from the World Health Organization show that 10% of hospitalized patients are harmed during their stay, and 1.4 million people at any time are suffering from hospital-acquired infections. It is estimated that when it comes to surgical care, 50% of associated complications are preventable (WHO). There are always ways to improve how tasks are performed in hospitals, and studying recent incidents can help us

It is fascinating the amount of trauma and mutilation that one human being can endure. Subdural hematoma, aortic rupture, diabetic ketoacidosis, internal and external blast injuries, acute myocardial infarction, or even third degree burns are no match for modern medicine. In times past, these conditions or injuries were beyond the physicians control and presumed fatal to the individual. However, survival percentages are now higher, and can be attributed to medical advancement and the use of medical checklists. Over the years, the medical practices and research studies from highly acclaimed professionals such as Dr. Atul Gawande, prove that checklists help guide medical professionals to a more precise outcome over medical practices without a checklist involved. Therefore, in order for concise, operative, and reliable medical practice, a checklist guideline is essential since it lessens the margin of error, increases life expectancy, and prevents situational blindness.