Risk Assessment Tool : Healthcare Facilities

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) states when “conditions causing human error are minimized or eliminated in a context such as hospitals, the result should be less human error, leading to fewer adverse events and preventable medical deaths, improved patient outcomes, and improved safety ("Safe design of healthcare facilities," 2006, para. 3).”

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.

The average hospital patient – and his or her loved ones – should not have to worry about their own safety. They should, however, be aware of a few

UCDMC has dropped from an “A” grade to a “B” grade starting in the Fall of 2016 to present because infection prevention performance has fallen below average (LeapFrog Group, 2017). The infection report from LeapFrog corresponds with the SNI’s infection report for 2016 and 2017. Numerous CAUTI occur in the hospital nationwide each year and costs approximately $250 million (Agency for healthcare Research and Quality [AHRQ], 2016). CAUTIs are preventable and can

In this task I will be describing how health and safety legislation, policies and procedures promotes the safety of individuals in a Hospital. Quality care is an important issue for both health care workers and their partners. Government continue to work on implementing staffing law that will upgrade the medical systems. Hospitals are required to provide security for patients and staff. Mechanical equipment, housekeeping, administrative and food staff play important roles in preventing all environmental hazards. Safety concerns surrounding these hazards include injury, illness, disease exposure, disaster

In my assignment I will be creating a poster which explains potential hazards and the harm that may arise from them in a health care setting.

The Joint Commission also addresses safety issues through the publication and distribution of the Sentinel Event which identifies a severe breach in safety and addresses ways on how to improve processes and to prevent harm in the future. It also publishes the National Patient Safety Goals which address healthcare safety and ways to solve problems that focus on issues such as identifying patients correctly, improving communication among staff, and administering medications safely, just to name a few. “A majority of Joint Commission standards are directly related to safety, addressing such issues as medication use, infection control, surgery and anesthesia, transfusions, restraint and seclusion, staffing and staff competence, fire safety, medical equipment, emergency management, and security. The standards also include requirements for preventing accidental harm; responding to patient safety events; and the organization’s responsibility to tell patients about the outcomes of their care” (TJC,

Healthcare acquired infections (HAI) not only contribute to exorbitant amounts of financial burden on the healthcare system but also attribute to staggering numbers of

Healthcare is an ever-growing, booming industry and as medical technology advances so should our standards of care. Once known as hospital acquired “nosocomial” infections, Healthcare Associated Infections (HAIs) are still afflicting the very patients we are to be treating. These patients could be our loved ones, friends, and family so to say that, “1 in 25 hospital patients have at least one HAI in a U.S. acute care hospital” (CDC, 2015), is still one too many.

It is critical in today’s health care field to avoid harm and ensure that patient safety in health care environment, especially with the attention of medical mistakes little is known about the importance of avoidable harm to public. The mistakes that happen in the healthcare setting are rarely the fault of individual workers, but usually the result of problems within the system that they work.

The U.S government spends about 17% of GDP on healthcare industry which is enormously high as compared to any other industrialized nation. President Obama signed the comprehensive healthcare reform – Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on March 23, 2010. The law worked on the principles of triple aim to reduce healthcare cost, improve quality and access for the U.S citizens. One of the fundamental component of Affordable Care Act that will affect the caregiving to the U.S citizens is payment cuts to the hospitals if they do not provide quality care to their patients. The reason behind these payment cuts is because Part A Medicare Trust may go bankrupt by 2017. Hence, it is necessary to bring the cost of healthcare under control along with providing quality care to the patients. In order to contain cost, ACA proposed Medicare Readmission Program. Effective October 1, 2012 Medicare will reduce payments to the hospitals that will have higher percentage than the specified amount of preventable readmission rates. Effective fiscal year 2015, Medicare will penalize the hospitals by 1 % that will show higher number of hospital acquired infections (KFF, 2013). CMS has reported that approximated one out of every 5 Medicare patients are admitted back to the hospital within 30 days of their prior inpatient stay. Readmission rates are generally high for hospital that serve more vulnerable population like safety net hospitals. The high readmissions are caused by a

Healthcare organizations must provide physical security by locking server rooms and using cable locks or other devices like cameras in order to prevent unauthorized individuals from accessing the server.

In “Lamb to the Slaughter” the author, Roald Dahl writes about a young, pregnant woman named Mary Maloney waiting for the return of her husband. When Mr. Maloney arrives, he disrupts the usual domestic routine the couple had put in place by claiming he wants a divorce. Overcome with emotions Mary takes the audience by surprise. She kills her husband. While this may seem like a horror or tragic story. However, the irony of it all causes the audience to view it instead, as a dark humored comedy.

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Contemporary India with a scientist President and an economist Prime Minister is very successfully treading the fast track of development Starting from an utterly ruined and exploited country under the rule of the haughty Britishers who sponged away the India wealth, the story of India's success in the last 60 years, is one of the proverbial rise from 'rags to riches'. India's development within a short span of time, to the level of a country which on its own conducted nuclear test, joining the elite club of nuclear powers, and now becoming a rightful contender for getting a permanent seat in UN Security Council, speaks volumes about India's success.