Patient Safety And Health Care

In the 1966 film, Fantastic Voyage, world famous scientist Jan Benes suffers a stroke after being attacked on his way to the United State Combined Miniature Deterrent Forces (CMDF) lab. He possesses vital information that the US needs in order to defeat the Soviet Union, so they put Benes into a coma to prevent his brain from hurting itself further. Dr. Peter Duval, the lead surgeon, informs Mr. Benes’s Secret Service handler that the injured part of Benes’s brain is located in an area that they cannot operate on without fatally injuring the man. Their only option is to shrink an expert team of four engineers and scientists, along with Mr. Benes’s Secret Service handler, down to microscopic size and inject them through Jan Benes’s carotid artery

In a healthcare practice, patient Safety and quality of care are emphasized to bring positive results. It focuses upon a care that is person centred, driven by information and organised for wellbeing. It has a great importance for the health care organization to avoid any adverse risks in relation to patient safety issues and to improve health care processes. In this essay, a detailed view of process and outcome data is argued to provide safe and quality care followed by an incidence of pressure ulcer is exemplified together with failed processes. Further in the essay, various standard processes are discussed to bring positive outcome.

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

There is a major concern about patient safety; not only here in the United States, but in many countries around the world. Medical errors can happen to unfortunately anyone and clearly they happen all the time around the world. There has been quite a few studies done in order to pin point some of the risk factors of medical errors and some of them had unsettling conclusions.

Safety is an important part of patient care and it can be observed starting at the time a patient arrive to the hospital. The first safety item is the patient arm band which will identify the patient by containing not only patient’s full name and date of birth but also patient’s hospital identification number. Another type of patient safety is the allergy band wrist and also tags on patient EHR as well as signs at the patients’ room that indicate if the patient is at fall risk or any other type of precautions needed at time of entering patient’s room like PPE, isolation or visitors requirements. Another type of safety tool on Epic is the italicization of patient last name if two or more patients have the same last name. In reference to fall risk a screening assessment for fall is used at time of admition also bed and chair alarms are implemented for patients that are at risk, if an alarm is activated any staff member close to the room is required to check on the patient plus the nurse who is in taking care of that patient will also receive an alarm of her/his hospital assigned phone. On the other hand a patient name and date of birth is required a the time of medicating a patient plus the patient’s arm band needs to be scanned as well as the nurse ID of the nurse who is providing the medication (six rights). To prevent patient ulcers, Braden scale test is used to recognize patients who need to be rotated. Also, immunizations are verify to be sure patients have all the

This article talks about how Patient safety is important and should always be in good care and hat nursing managers have good communication skills. (Thyer 2002). Having poor relationships and poor communications, it can be bad for the patient care and their safety and ought to along these lines be of worry to attendant supervisors. It shows that poor communications can weaken patient outcomes, and the information that the patients get regularly neglects to meet them, or their families', needs.

Patient safety is a critical part of quality care, and there is no question that how significant patient safety is. Every day we face several complex matters regarding patient care that forces us to think and act carefully. “Stories of patients having the wrong surgery performed, the wrong medication being administered, or dying from hospital acquired infections are too often the lead story on news programs” (Gomez, 2014). However, to bring down the percentage of safety risk, requires an organization that understanding and supporting a culture of safety in the workplace. Communication between the team is very crucial, also focusing on providing feedback on potential areas of concern help patient safety.

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.

The primary aim of this paper is to improve patient safety. Thus, patient safety improvement requires change at all the four levels of a healthcare framework: the experience of patients amid their collaborations with the clinicians; the working of little units (micro-systems) of care conveyance, for example, surgical groups or nursing units; organizational practices that house the micro-systems; and the situations of approach, installment, control, accreditation, and different components outside to the real conveyance of care that shape the setting in which medical services associations convey care. Various recommendations to promote and enhance patient safety include change in the transformational leadership and evidence-based management, maximizing the workforce capability, designing the work and workspace in a way to prevent and mitigate errors, and finally creating and sustaining a culture of safety (Hughes, 2008).

Every day, people admit themselves to a healthcare facility with hopes of improving their health. Whether for a major surgery or just for a little cough patients are being subjected to infections at the hands of the very people that are supposed to be helping them.Healthy People 2020 (2016) reports “At any one time in the United States, 1 out of every 25 hospitalized patients are affected by an HAI.” This is not and should never be an acceptable number in this day and age of technology and information. Patients can develop HAI’s can be acquired through interaction with employees, catheter associated infections, surgical sites, bloodstream through central lines, and pneumonia associated with ventilators. Healthcare-acquired infections not only affect the patient, but they affect the staff as well as the hospital as a whole. The safety of patients is an integral part of ensuring quality care and the patient leaving in a better condition than they came. Patient safety can be provided by finding ways to reduce healthcare-acquired infections, explaining the effects of these infections on the patient and hospital, and increasing hand hygiene and education with patients as well as staff.

The side effects cause by benzodiazepines can affect patients in many ways. Long term use can cause addiction problems which can lead to withdrawal symptoms if they stop suddenly. Some studies have even linked cancer to long term use of these medications. They are considered “quick fixes” and should not be used long term.

Patient safety and quality care is top priority for every nurse in any healthcare setting. However, nurses are put in stressful situation on a daily bases and staffing issues should not be one of these. Staffing shortages, patient acuity, higher patient to nurse ratio, and deadlines contribute to increase risk of medical misses or errors, lower quality of care, decrease in patient safety, nursing fatigue, job dissatisfaction, and employee turnover. According to Cho, Kim, Yeon, You, and Lee (2015), units with higher number of nursing staff missed less nursing care than those working on units with less staffing (p. 273). I even addressed how understaffing issues and acuity of patients can impact the quality of nursing care when administering

Patient safety is vital in the practice of medicine. In medical laboratory science, we may not have a direct contact with the patient, but every duty we perform can affect the outcome of the patient’s health. Patient safety involves being able to collect samples and follow the protocols for the test result. Accuracy in medicine may be a very high standard, but it is worth it when it comes to a patient’s life. A medical practitioner should always have the expectation not to incur more harm on the patient. A patient comes to the hospital for a solution to their problem and should not go back home with more problems. Patient safety includes interpreting results accurately, doing the right test and following protocols. The protocol for testing may be long to read, difficult to follow when you have a large workload but vital in medicine. A medical laboratory scientist should always have the code of ethics at heart to perform an error-free lab test on a patient. Shortcuts may look easy, but the result poses damage to the patient. The moment you made up your mind to be a laboratory practitioner was the when you decided to take responsibility of caring and ensured error-free for your patient.

The role of patients in improving patient safety is another important topic being discussed in the healthcare industry. Gibson (2007) stated patients have three roles in improving patient safety. According to Gibson (2007), in order for health facilities to improve patient safety, patients need to report all safety concerns to health providers so they can be addressed along with the other concerns conveyed by doctors, pharmacists, nurses, and others. Secondly, patients and family members are encouraged to ask questions and listen to physician orders once he or she makes their rounds. Since documentation is vital in the healthcare industry, all medical records, orders, and notes are entered on laptops in each patient room. Once a physician has

Achieving the goal of providing safer, quality, improved, proportionate, and greater cost efficiency to the entire population is the biggest challenge in the health care field today. Quality and safety are the two most formidable issues that are compromising health care outcomes to the populace today. To prevent harm to patients during their treatment, or from adverse events occurring; about 1% of all hospitalizations, delivery of the best possible result, the knowledge of quality and safety patient care should be at the forefront of the health care industry.