Patient Identification

Patient identification and the corresponding of a patient to their medication and treatment being done is an important practice that is carried out in all hospitals and Doctor’s offices. It can be potentially fatal to patient’s safety and health if proper patient identification is not routinely done. “The failure to correctly identify patients and match that information to an intended clinical intervention continues to result in wrong person, wrong site procedures, medication errors, transfusion errors and diagnostic testing errors.” Hospitals and Doctor’s office settings should have protocols, policies, guidelines, and continuous training in place to patient identification. Stressing the key responsibility of health-care workers to check the identity of patients and to make sure it is with the correct patient with the correct care before any procedures and medications are done or administered. …show more content…
Getting the patient involved as well can help the nurses carry out the policy and rules of patient identification effectively. Example of patient identification error that can happen. Asian names and Hispanic names sounds alike, look alike and have very common names. Using different types of method to identify the patient besides names, such as Date of birth, sex, and also address can lessen the errors of having the wrong patient. Sometime, fathers name their sons after them like Senior, Junior, the first, third, again, very important to identify the patient properly with no rushing of