Fire safety

The article " Can a Playground Be Too Safe?" touched on many important points of playground safety and how it may be too strict. Dr. Sandseter states "Climbing equipment needs to be high enough, or else it will be too boring in the long run." I agree with Dr. Sandseter about how important it is to give children the opportunity to be challenged and take risks. Even if the risks are as simple as climbing a 4 foot ladder or going down the big slide. If we make the playground equipment too safe the…

Patient Safety Regina Georgeson 9/15/15 Patient safety is what everything in healthcare revolves around. It should be practiced in every step that a nurse takes at work to care for a patient to reach their individual outcomes without medical error. Patient safety is commonly defined as, “freedom from psychological and physical injury. “ There are multiple ways that patient safety can be breached as evidenced by the thousands of deaths seen each year because of malpractice. Due to…

Patients’ safety is the highest priority. Joint Commission’s National Patient Safety Goal 2009, ‘Fall Reduction Program’ (2014) stated every health care organization’s fall prevention program is expected to include all patient care settings and populations.…

This quality improvement project for achieving the NPSG Six implementation of the clinical alarm management project involved two phases. The first phase began in 2014 with leadership commitment to alarm safety and accomplishing the goal and placing the patient safety nurses as the project leaders. The chief nurse officers assigned clinical representatives for each area of service and the clinical engineers completed a comprehensive inventory of the alarms systems. The second phase included…

Hospital, launched their patient safety program in 2006. The Cincinnati children’s radiology department assessment showed they had one serious event happening about every 200 days. The department of radiology found to improve patient safety, three significant cultural changes needed to happen: identification, accountability, and open communication. (Donnelly, Dickerson, Goodfriend, & Muething, 2010) In radiology, many factors can play into the potential for a patient safety issue. One way to…

Introduction Safety is an important part of life that people sometimes overlooked until it costs them money or personal discomfort. Webster’s dictionary defines safe as “the condition of being safe from undergoing or causing hurt, injury, or loss.” As a wastewater professional, can you do your job safely? This book is intended to stress the importance of safety in the workplace by dividing it into two categories: Risk Awareness and Risk Management. Risk Awareness Safety is a 24 hour a…

There is a variety of different types of evidence that could prove this. The observations of other workers on the site could be used to show the right safety precautions were not taken. Or the paperwork and records that the company keeps concerning the equipment may be used to prove that guidelines were not followed. Government inspections of the equipment, or lack of appropriate inspections, could also…

¨Security is a kind of death¨.-Tennessee Williams Introduction-I agree with the quote because you may go and do an extreme sport with friends and something might go wrong, which could end your life there.Thesis-Extreme sports are a bad idea because they are dangerous, and wingsuit flying and base jumping are probably the most dangerous of you.There has been fatalities of extreme sports over the past 5 years per 1,000 participants.Between 1930 and 1961,71 out of 75 people died trying to perfect…

fall holiday that is full of many traditions and celebrations. Children often dress up in costumes, attend parties or parades and eat seasonal treats. Unfortunately, Halloween has some safety risks. Adhering to the following guidelines can help keep everyone safe and able to enjoy the holiday. Trick-or-Treating Safety Children should never go trick-or-treating alone. They should always go in a group that includes adults until they are old enough to stay with a group of friends. When walking…

In an effort to improve patient safety and the quality of care provided to patients, healthcare organizations implement evidence-based best practices. Organizations also work to transform the culture of patient safety in their environment by implementing changes and involving all stakeholders such as board members to the front-line workers (Grissinger, 2010). Adverse advents unfortunately happen in all environments, the challenge is finding a strategic plan that will assist the healthcare…