Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act

extension to the PSQIA to include a national mandatory medical errors reporting system to increase the frequency of medical error reporting. This policy change would improve the overall patient safety and quality of care. NATIONAL MANDATORY MEDICAL ERRORS REPORTING SYSTEM 2 Introduction Assurance of patient safety and quality of care is recognized as an increasingly important aspect of medical care and important challenge for U.S. healthcare system. Several studies have shown that receiving medical care

During the patient safety

and more than $4.5 billion in hospital healthcare costs (Patient Safety, 2015). Safety is one of the six competencies the QSEN faculty and National Advisory Board explained to be initiated in nursing pre-licensure programs in order to increase the quality and safety of healthcare systems. Safety in healthcare decreases risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance. The integration of safety in healthcare, which is important for future nurses to

actual or potential patient harm resulting from a medication error. To expound further, while ADEs may result from oversights related to prescribing or dispensing, 26-32% of all erroneous drug interventions occur during the nursing administration and monitoring phases (Anderson & Townsend, 2010). These mollifiable mishaps not only create a formidable financial burden for health care systems, they also carry the potential of imposing irreversible physiological impairment to patients and their families

Prior to leaving my job as his assistant I witnessed a patient, Joan, suffer an injury resulting from an error by Dr. Williams. In anticipation of Joan filing a lawsuit Dr. Williams shows Joan’s medical records to a friend and asks for advice. His friend tells him to contact his medical malpractice insurance carrier. Has there been a HIPAA violation? Is Dr. Williams

Making sure that patients are safe in healthcare facilities is an important topic that all the healthcare organizations must go through. The individuals that attend healthcare facilities fully trust and put their health in the hands of their healthcare provider. Since healthcare providers are faced with so many responsibilities in their healthcare facility, they often find it hard not to make any errors in the services they provide. Healthcare providers have so many tasks that sometimes they might

being, and the environment. Nonmaleficence is a duty not to harm (McEwan, 2017, p.269). In nursing, our primary responsibility is to make sure that our patients are kept safe from harm. It is our primary duty and responsibility that we take when we care and treat the patients. This paper will discuss three risk management steps that could minimize patient injuries and death, the importance of reporting an error, and the essence of tort in the nursing practice.   According to Potter, Perry & Hall (2009)

human character regardless of a person’s career. While it is almost probable that one will make mistakes in their place of work, it is the act of taking responsibility for these mistakes that really counts. When one makes an error occurs in the course of writing a drug prescription to a patient, he or she needs to consider the ethical and legal implications of this act on the laws, for instance in Texas. One needs to carefully consider what the law says about the resulting consequences of disclosure and

one-third of the nurses’ time is used in medication administration. There is much potential for error because of the complexity of the medication administration process. Since nurses are the last ones to actually administer the medication to the patient therefore they become responsible for medication administration errors (MAE). Reasons for MAE may include individual factors, organizational factors or system factors. This paper will discuss the root causes analysis of MAE and strategies to prevent

of the Journal of Patient Safety estimates there are between 210,000 and 400,000 deaths per year associated with medical errors. This makes medical errors the third leading cause of deaths in the United States, behind that comes heart disease and cancer. To prevent medical errors always follow the Three Checks and most importantly the Rights of Medication Administration. The “Rights of Medication Administration” helps to ensure accuracy when administering medication to a patient. When administering