Essay on Raft Task 2

This includes reporting violence, abuse or neglect towards clients by other nurses and extends to reporting conduct involving third parties, including family members and other healthcare providers

"The Boat" by Alistair MacLeod is the story told from the perspective of university teacher looking back on his life. The narrator relates the first memories of his life until his father's death. The story focuses on the conflicting relation between the mother and the father, and their different perspectives on how their children should lead their lives. MacLeod uses features of setting to present the tension between tradition and freedom.

Nightingale Community Hospital identified a recent sentinel event involving the ambulatory surgical center. A sentinel event is defined as an unexpected occurrence involving death or serious physical or psychological injury, or the risk thereof (http://www.jointcommission.org/sentinel_event). A three year old female presented to the hospital on September 14th for a planned outpatient procedure. The child was accompanied by her mother. The mother registered the patient with the registrar prior to the procedure. The patient and her mother went to the pre-operative area to complete the informed consent and the necessary physical assessment. The pre-operative nurse obtained the necessary contact

The understanding of those barriers to which prevent information from being received can allow for better communication throughout the department.

Qu. 1. Is Tavion’s mother’s statement of concern of abuse sufficient to warrant further investigation by the hospital?

Sentinel event refers to the occurrence of serious physical illness or death or psychological injury or even those incidences whose recurrence involves risks with adverse and serious outcomes. It may result into deaths that are not anticipated or permanent loss of a major function that is not associated with patient’s natural cause of illness or condition (Lewis et al, 2014). The causative factors of Mr. B’s demise, according to the scenario described are that Mr. B was not put on oxygen or an EKG monitor

This paper will analyze the cause of the sentinel event which occurred to Mr. B, a sixty seven year old patient which presented to the emergency room with left leg pain. A root cause analysis will be necessary in this case to investigate the causative factors which led to Mr. B’s sentinel event. The factors in this unfortunate case weather they were errors in his care, or hazards in the system will be identified. The Change theory will be used to develop an improvement plan that will be used to decrease the chances of a reoccurrence of the sentinel event that happened to Mr. B. in the scenario.

Specifically, the pre-op nurse who acquired the parental contact information, or upon being informed that the mother would be leaving the facility did not document it in the patient chart or pass it along to the O.R. nurse.

4. All staff will receive additional education of the updated hand-off procedure as well as training on what to do when the H&P is absent (contact admitting and attending providers). Unit supervisors will be responsible for ensuring that all staff education regarding of policies and processes regarding H&P compliance are up to date.

Nightingale Community Hospital is a 180-bed acute care hospital that is a not-for profit entity. The hospital is community based and provides leadership in quality health services in which they provide. Their vision is to be the hospital that people choose, the place employees, physicians and volunteers want to work and a hospital of choice for the community. They are committed to providing a healing environment to their patients with a compassionate commitment to healthcare excellence.

Event Maps and this document will be placed throughout the event area at various locations.

The scenario also states that the nurse tried going through the admission process by asking the patient some questions. This process was carried out in the presence of Mr. Jones daughter. Clearance was never sought from Mr Jones as to whether he was comfortable going through the questioning process in the presence of the daughter which was a violation of Mr Jones’s right to confidentiality (IBID).

Nightingale Community Hospital (NCH) has thirteen months until their next Joint Commission audit. This report will evaluate Nightingale Hospital’s compliance in The Priority Focus Area of Communication using the Universal Protocol Standards from the Joint Commission Handbook. “The Universal Protocol was created to address the continuing occurrence of wrong site, wrong procedure and wrong person surgery and other procedures in Joint Commission accredited organizations” (Joint Commission, 2013).

Family History: Patient lives in her mother’s house with her two children. The patient reports a

Natural disasters are the catastrophes cause by “Mother Nature”, which is often difficult to forecast or manage (Morrison, et al 2014). Examples of