Patient safety

Patient safety is an essential part of our healthcare system, and it helps define the quality of healthcare. The patient’s life is always the first priority for healthcare providers, and they need to take care of patients properly. Safety always improves patient quality of care and provides proper treatment that can manage a patient’s condition. Safety needs to be respected by everyone who works in the medical field, and they must stay informed about job-related health issues. Everyone should follow the procedures so that the work environment can run more efficiently and safely. You should not take any shortcut in the work procedures because this can cause errors to occur. Healthcare professionals all should be properly trained and follow 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…

It’s more than likely that every person has encountered some situation relevant or based on patient safety. Multiple times in a person’s life we have encountered a patient safety situation whether we heard about it on the news by various IOM reports, known a friend or loved one who experienced a medical error, yourself had experienced a medical error, or maybe you were a nurse or doctor who mistakenly made a medical error. The issue with patient safety is becoming a bigger and bigger problem as…

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…

world hundreds of thousands of patients die each year due to medical errors. Medical error is the 3rd leading cause of death in the United States. With the great technological advances today, diseases that were believed to be deadly are being treated, so patients may live a longer, less painful life. The creation of treatments and cures should cause less death, yet patients who enter a healthcare facility are possibly already facing a greater risk of death compared to their illness. Patient…

Patient safety remains one of the most critical and enforced points in the healthcare system today. Patient safety can be defined as the prevention and avoidance of errors or injuries in the process of providing care. Some major patient safety problems recently found include, but are not limited to, medication errors, the spread of infection and even inaccurate documentation. Nursing is always changing and has always focused on maintaining patient safety and integrating new concepts of keeping…

Patient safety 'To Err is Human', that quote explains that humans are prone to errors. Our goal in healthcare organization is to minimize the chances of these errors. Patient safety can be defined as ' the prevention of harm to patients' or ' is the absence of preventable harm to a patient during the process of health care'. Upon bringing up the topic of patient safety, then we’re talking about how hospitals and other health care organizations protect their patients from errors, injuries,…

With many health care facilities being the backbone of society, patient safety is the number one goal. For this reason, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), has put together a set of National Patient Safety Goals as called NPSGs. NPSGs were established in 2002, and these goals were made, “to continuously improve health care for the public, in collaboration with other stakeholders, by evaluating health care organizations and inspiring them to excel in…

article was Safety, this is also probably the most important when it comes to saving patients’ lives and coincide the most with the Joint Commission’s safety goals. The “safe” aim for improvement is to avoid injuries from care (Wolfe 2001). This can be done by making sure to identify patients correctly using two identifiers. It can also be done by using medicines safely. Medication safety is improved by using the three checks when administering medications to patients, and by the six rights of…

improvement in healthcare has occurred. But, this improvement has its drawback on patient safety, as patients increasingly suffer from adverse events due to hospitalization and medical management. As a result to this situation, 'patient safety' has emerged as a distinct health care discipline which can help health team to develop a culture of patient safety (1). Usually, medical errors blamed on a person error and attributes these to human factors like forgetfulness, carelessness, poor…