Clinical safety is improved through healthcare providers collaboratively learning from their misjudgements and mistakes, showing an interest towards a culture of change and having a whole system approach toward effective problem solving. (Tella et. al. 2015.) This improvement throughout healthcare sectors minimises medical inaccuracies and aids the avoidance of common practice errors to better promote the safety of patients. Due to nurses being in close proximity to patients and being their primary carer, they acquire a phenomenal level of responsibility when upholding patient safety. Nurses’, hopefully will be the source of the most valuable and useful progress of clinical safety as they are the largest contributor to the healthcare workforce. A significant contributor to ensuring efficient patient safety is through correct hand hygiene practices. Health-care associated infections raise both morbidity and mortality rates, increases the lengths of hospital stay for patients and affects patient health outcomes adversely during their admission in hospital. (Winship & McClunie-Trust, 2016).
Patient safety can be interpreted as a process, a discipline or an attribute of care delivery systems, that enables prevention of medical errors and avoidable adverse events as well as protection of patients from harm. The process of …show more content…
When errors do occur by having preventive strategies to help correct actions; procedures such as the NSW Government Incident Management Policy. “The purpose of this policy is to provide direction to health services regarding the management of both clinical and corporate incidents, including the provision of appropriate feedback to patients, families/support persons and clinicians, and the sharing of lessons learned to prevent patient harm.” (Ministry of Health,
Patient safety can be interpreted as a process, a discipline or an attribute of care delivery systems, that enables prevention of medical errors and avoidable adverse events as well as protection of patients from harm. The process of …show more content…
When errors do occur by having preventive strategies to help correct actions; procedures such as the NSW Government Incident Management Policy. “The purpose of this policy is to provide direction to health services regarding the management of both clinical and corporate incidents, including the provision of appropriate feedback to patients, families/support persons and clinicians, and the sharing of lessons learned to prevent patient harm.” (Ministry of Health,