Errors and Expectations

is a very common practice on my unit and it presents a myriad of issues and challenges particularly for those not well trained. The high error rate, which includes severe consequences for doing the procedure incorrectly, needs to be addressed with transparency, training and follow-up. AHRQ seems dedicated to raising the level of awareness of human medical error and finding ways to reduce the risk whether through process, policy or training. I believe they are playing a pivotal role in pushing…

The main argument in favor of mandating cognitive enhancements in the case of the cognitive enhancement Drug A would be the drugs ability to reduce medical errors by 20% and reduce the death rate by 5%. Any utilitarian argument would state that the value of saving a life is more important than any other moral argument against the use of the drug. However, the utilitarian argument fails to consider the consequences…

Wall of Silence Journal Entry One Medical errors occur every day whether it is from a nurse or physician and because of it’s occurrence, it is publicized and raises concern in the community. My level of awareness was little despite hearing stories on social media and from people around me. As I became a nursing student, I realized that medical errors happen more often from common mistakes that are preventable and nothing is done to solve it. Gibson and Singh (2003) mentioned, “hospitals and…

also indicated low scatter and high precision between increments as the average points are close to the line of best fit. As shown in the second graph comparing the linen of true value with the average line of best fit there is obvious systematic error in this experiment, the two lines are too far apart to suggest high accuracy in the results although both lines have a very low gradient showing that they share similar characteristics when the relationship between variable is…

According to Bachman & Schutt (2014): Research should expose participants to no more than minimal risk of personal harm, researchers should fully disclose the purposes of their research, participation in research should be voluntary, and therefore subjects must give their informed consent to participate in the research, and confidentiality must be maintained for individual research participants unless it is voluntarily and explicitly waived. (p. 60) Although Dr. Coswalt protects the research…

piece and leaving the other rings empty, to see if the baby would place that tricked ring on the pole. Evidently, the fifteen-month-old placed the trick ring on and realized it didn’t work and tried the other pieces. This method is known as trial and error. On the other hand, the eighteen-month-old baby was aware of the trick piece and avoided that piece altogether. Gopnik claims “as they got older and learned more about how the world worked, babies would behave entirely differently” (166). This…

Render, 2002, pg. 248). According to Teaching the Culture of Safety, (Barnsteiner, 2001, table 2) having the proper understanding of causes of errors and allocation of responsibility will help healthcare professionals appropriately analyze errors and designing system improvements all while engaging in root cause analysis instead of the blaming game when errors happen. Knowledge, skills, and attitudes all go hand by hand with the root cause analysis. By identifying the problem and solving it will…

If you want to get 100x better precision, you need 10,000x the number of measurements. In addition, there might be systematic errors that might for example depend on the person carrying out the measurement (reaction time) etc. Let’s explore a much more precise way of measuring velocity – photogates. We use two photogates that are connected to the computer. They consist of a little…

into assignments providing quality patient care. An example of this learned outcome was demonstrated in the Risk Analysis and Implication for Practice 4377 Adverse Drug Event (ADE) assignment using current research to show that insulin medication error is the leading cause of hypoglycemia. However, the nurse must keep the patient’s values in consideration which was addressed in the Mock In-service video assignment for the Legal and Ethical Issues in Healthcare 4383 on informed consent, which was…

As the owner of a popular clothing establishment, it came to my attention during the weekly staff meeting that customer satisfaction was a concern the employees were voicing. This discussion led to the potential of performing a survey throughout our ten locations, which serve over two-hundred customer per day. The quandary is how we build this sample. When gathering satisfaction data from a population, such as the customers of a popular clothing store, surveys are very beneficial. However,…