to practice safe patient care and have responsible knowledge of medications. All too often, however, medication errors do occur. Over 733 nurses surveyed in a study by Urima University of Medical Sciences, have exposed the occurrences of medication errors, the reasons that these errors transpired, and how they feel they could have been prevented. Along with making the actual errors, reporting them is also a major barrier to safe, honest nursing care. The importance of patient safety and accurate reporting…

Cultural safety and patient centred care are terms commonly used in the training of health care professionals. Each term focuses on best practice techniques while promoting a holistic manner of care for patients. As a concept, it enhances the professional and ethical role of health practitioners. Cultural safety and patient centred care are aspects which are crucial for health professionals who strive to deliver the highest level of quality care to all patients (Nguyen, 2008). This essay will analyse…

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…

Patient safety and quality care has not always been the main objective of our U.S. health care system. Traditionally, the idea of “quality health care” was left up to the interruption of the acting physician. Due to the specialization of medical practice knowledge about care was not widely attainable or known by the average citizen (Shi & Singh, pg. 55). In this time medical education was not backed by science and medical errors were a regular occurrence in U.S. health care (Shi et al., 2013). You…

handled differently. “Patient safety is one of the most prominent healthcare challenges worldwide”(Brasaite, 2015). For improving health care it is important to share the responsibility for patient safety between all caregivers. Patients are often unintentionally injured as a consequence of their treatment; therefore, it takes many people to help an organization run efficiently and effectively. It takes teamwork, collaboration, coordination, and communication. Moreover, “patients arrive in the healthcare…

Throughout any health-care facility, the incorporation and knowledge of patient safety is crucial to ensure quality care to patients. Patient safety is a discipline in the health care profession that emphasizes the reporting, analysis, and prevention of medical error and to minimize the incidence and impact of adverse healthcare events (Henriksen K, Battles JB, Keyes MA, year). Patient safety is incorporated within many issues throughout the healthcare field. One of these issues is health-care acquired infections…

Introduction The importance of patient care and quality care is essential for an organization to remain in business. It is often understood that quality over quantity is indispensable and imperative for an organization to succeed. In most cases, costs are not the determining factor and should be of concern when it comes to patient safety and quality care. Therefore, the measurement of the quality care is more valuable than state-of-art facilities, costs, and specialized fields of medicine. Quality…

The growing demand for quality of care and improved safety in healthcare is a global issue that affects many countries. In spite of major initiative of hospital staff, serious adverse event amongst hospitalised patient is evident as research suggests that this finding is not exclusive to one nation (Bucknall, 2011). In Australia, for example, one study found that there was 40-fold possibility of dying because of serious harm during hospitalisation than being in the road (Australia Safe Work, 2012)…

of nurse to patient ratios has remained a consistent focus of controversy in the medical community. Nurses, physicians, patients, CEO’s and countless other individuals, have questioned the growing concern with patient safety and patient outcomes. Laying at the root of this concern, is the ever growing unease for patient safety based on the number of patients a nurse cares for during one shift. Hinno (2011) states “Knowledge of the relationship between nurse staffing and adverse patient outcomes is…

A. Sentinel Event 1. Safety of the patients’ care is the identified issue, in reference to lack of communication. All disengaged patients should be accounted at all times. The staff responsible for the patient should be on alert about possible issues that may occur relating to that particular patient. For example if a nurse is taking care of a dementia patient that is a risk for elopement there should be procedures in place to prevent issues. The hospital needs to have procedures in place for…