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
proper inspection, cleaning, repair and preventative maintenance; for both patient safety and for the reputation of our facilities. In the interim, there are some additional ways we may aid in surgical instrument longevity. Areas such as incorporating careful transportation, using tip protectors on delicate instrumentation, using Theraband to sharpen scissors, being careful to avoid any heavy items placed on top or adjacent to instruments. Share the importance of the OR staff also inspecting the instruments
able to provide treatment to patients suffering from non-life threatening conditions and the most common illness, including pneumonia and flu, fevers, upper respiratory infections, sprains and strains, lacerations, contusion, and also necessary screening test, such as High Blood Pressure, mammogram, diabetes. Since the late 1980s and early 1990s, hospitals have looked to facilities such as RUCs as a means to reduce rate of inappropriate ED utilizations by triaging patients to less acute settings. The
common goals to provide coordinated care to a patient throughout the whole continuum of care. One of the goals is to make care safer and better coordinate of patient transitions from hospitals to other settings (cms.gov) All physicians come together are integrated into the joint venture, from home care to hospitals to long-term nursing homes, clinic, outpatient surgery etc. Integrated physician model is a partnership amongst physicians. 2) Explain the importance of clinical integration in the strategic
associated with the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The IOM recognized that there is a shortage of primary care providers to cover healthcare and that the nursing profession is grossly underutilized. The RWJF provides vast opportunities to assess, promote and implement safe healthcare practices for the American population. These organizations evaluated objectively the state of America’s healthcare system and concluded that there is a significant need to increase access to care and decrease disparities
Nursing The Affordable Care Act was passed on March 23rd, 2010 and is part of the health reform which increases benefits provided by insurance companies. In Wisconsin insurance companies are now required to cover all preventative care, they are prohibited from dropping coverage of those who are diagnosed with costly diseases, they are unable to make an annual or lifetime limit, and soon they will be unable to “discriminate against anyone with a pre-existing condition” (Health care law, n.d., para. 1-2)
hospitals in La Ceiba, Honduras. In Honduras, the quality of and the access to health care and education are directly linked to income and the limited support from the government. Several of my patients were continuously treated for diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol levels. I was frustrated and wished that I had time to educate patients about preventative care measures and disseminate the importance of a healthy lifestyle, such as eating right and exercising. As a child, I too did
same protocols in patient care. For example, some of the protocols include how to administer medications, patient safety, and sterilization procedures. In the health care field nurses have more patient contact than other physicians, which put nurses in a position of importance because of the high-risk factor if the protocols are not followed. For instance, if a nurse does not follow a protocol such as washing their hands properly and putting on gloves they can infect a patient during treatment which
published a report, “To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System,” that described the lack of safety in the US healthcare system. The report was a ground-breaking publication, triggering research and articles that highlighted the need for safer practices and quality standards in the US health care system (Stelfox, Palmisani, Scurlock, Orav, Bates, 2006). The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) have attempted to address these shortcomings by instituting legislation that ensures all
was: “In elderly hospitalized patients 60 years of age and above, do specific fall prevention interventions, as compared to standard care, reduce the amount of falls in an inpatient setting, during their hospitalization?” For this paper I will be reviewing a quantitative research article based around my PICOT on fall risk within the hospital setting. Patient falls within the hospital setting are a nursing-sensitive quality indicator based around the delivery and care of inpatient services. As identified