Patient Safety

Effects of a National Safe Patient Handling Program on Nursing Injury Incidence Rates by Gail Powell-Cope, Peter Toyinbo, Nitin Patel, Deborah Rugs, Christine Elnitsky, Bridget Hahm, Bryce Sutton, Robert Campbell, Karen Besterman-Dahan, Mary Matz, Michael Hodgson and published in 2014 discusses the musculoskeletal injury( MSI) among the primary healthcare providers in the veteran health administration facilities. The research shows that the rate of the MSI is quite high and this overall impacts the efficiency of the nurses. The article suggests that failure to educate the peer leaders on the appropriate safety patience handling programs, inadequate equipment, and staffing contributes to MSI (Powell-Cope et al.).

The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), the National Patient Safety Initiative, the American College of Surgeons (ACS), the New York State Department of Health (NYS DOH), and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) have all developed regulatory and accreditation standards. For example, the JCAHO recommends that the surgical team pause and articulate the surgical site before commencing, to reduce medical error. Standards and accreditations include issues such as institutional hygiene and safety, as well as policy and procedure related to patient care.

Our report shows an increase in fall risks from 7 am to 11 am daily. This time coincides with patient care, where nursing staff may be attending to one individual patient, often

Quality of care, and patient safety matters. Quality of care does not happen overnight; it is a system that an organization creates to measure, assess, and improve performance. This quality management system is a set of interrelated or interacting elements that organizations use to direct and control the implementation of quality policies and achieve quality objectives (Spath, 2013).

Patient safety is an integral part of quality nursing care and patient outcomes. Quality care is dependent on the health care providers, nurses, hospitals, the government, pharmaceutical companies and insurance companies. The perplex multitude of contributing factors dictate the quality and safety that is provided to patients. Each entity is responsible for ensuring safe delivery of care to patients and their families. Our nation’s healthcare system was initially developed to treat acute illnesses and most of the money is spent on chronic conditions related to the aging population. Health care needs are becoming more complex than ever before, which results in a demand for nurses to achieve higher levels of education to meet these shifts (Institute

Safety needs is the second level of needs in the Maslow Hierarchy of needs. Nurses have to believe they are safe in order for their patients to feel and be safe. The nurse to patient ratio is another thing that the nurse manager or a leader should take into account and consideration. For this reason, it is important to understand the full scope of nursing practice other than the basic nursing tasks ‘nursing assessments, medication administration, dressing changes…’ “The nursing profession, including professional and specialty organizations, is responsible to its members and to the public to define the scope of practice and standards of practice” (American Nurses Association, 2017). Patients present with different diagnosis and needs which requires

Patient safety is a major concern for all health care providers. Two areas of safety that are relevant to my practice in an outpatient surgical center are medication errors and the electronic error reporting. The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) is the organization that was used to support my project. The Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) Initiative competency that was chosen for my indirect clinical project (ICP) was safety. Everyone in the health care environment wants to be kept safe. A discussion on how medication errors and the electronic error reporting affects everyone from the staff to the community will be discussed. Safety is an integral part of health care. Considering the Joint Commission (2015) believes patient safety is so important that it has dedicated and entire chapter on the subject and made it free to view. Throughout this paper safety related to medication errors and electronic error reporting will be discussed. Along with the topic of medication errors and electronic reporting will be two plans to reduce safety related events. Overall the paper will cover medication errors and their prevention with how electronic error reporting can help prevent frequent errors from occurring.

Safety is a basic human need. As defined by Dictionary.com, safety is “freedom from the occurrence of risk or injury, danger, or loss” (n.d.). In the healthcare environment, there are many challenges to keep patients safe. Studies have shown that many adverse events can cause real harm to patients and are preventable. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the prevalence of adverse events in the hospital setting, some causes of healthcare error, and ways to prevent the adverse events.

In the medical health simulation field, the safety word appears often in different conversation or article related to simulation. In other words, simulation centers provide a safe environment for learners to practice their skills whenever they encounter areal situation. As healthcare workers our goal focus on the patient safety. How often do you take time to think about your safety? Generally speaking, only in few occasion we think about our safety. Especially when you at work you believe you are safe environment. Today you will see the importance to be aware of your physical safety while working.

Patient safety is an essential component of hospital environments that has generated international debates and received many interpretations. It involves practices that seek to reduce risks and unnecessary health-related medication errors to an acceptable minimum (Silva & Camerini, 2012). Nurses’ role in the medication process includes administering drugs. This role exposes them to the possibility of making errors that can potentially harm the patient, or even result in death. The research articles authored by Westbrook et al. (2011) entitled “Errors in the Administration of Intravenous Medications in Hospital and the Role of Correct Procedures and Nurse Experience” and Ding et al. (2015) titled “Incidence of Intravenous Medication Errors

A risk management plan is created so as to support Little Falls Hospitals mission and vision statements as it pertains to the clinical risk of the hospital, patients, visitors, volunteers, and employee safety, and any possible operational, business, and property risks.

The guide contains a global scope of patient safety, where there shall be a unified definition for patient safety and other factors contributing to patient safety. Then it follows a four step plan guide in developing a program. It starts with the assessment of an area and goal setting, which then necessitates the creation of a training program to be implemented and evaluated for effectiveness.

Patient safety within nursing field is an extremely vital component when providing extraordinary care to patients. Patient safety on a daily basis can be an extremely difficult task to maintain, especially when there are medical errors and setbacks. According to the American Nurses Association, a medical error is defined as a planned sequence of mental or physical activities that fails to achieve to the intended outcome, and when this failure cannot be attributed to some chance intervention or occurrence.

This is an interesting project; Ensuring patient safety is an important role of a professional nurse in the healthcare setting. You have mentioned different fall prevention methods used in the healthcare setting which is to protect the patient from falling by implementing fall prevention protocol. Patients in the cardiovascular unit are high risk for fall due to lack of blood perfusion from the heart to the brain tissue. To ensure patient safety and decrease fall nurse must develop a proper nursing intervention. Nurses also have to communicate clearly with the patient and incorporate the patient’s priorities of care and preference to avoid fall and further injuries.

First of all, I do not think so nursing students allowed to provide safe patient care in the hospital because they are still students. Also, professional nurse or RN might not trust that nursing students can provide care to the patients. Nursing students can take case study from patients and learn about learning environment during clinical experience, but I never see nursing students provide care to the patient in the clinical setting. However, the nursing system here might be different from in my country.