Patient safety

Lorean Jackson PAD6726 Florida International University Do following home safety standards decrease the likelihood that an elderly person will fall and reduce related psychological issues? Part 1 Literature Review Falling among elderly people is recorded to be the main cause to accidental deaths for the aged. Previous research indicates that falls amount up to 70 percent of all accidental deaths among elderly people aged 75 and above. This research indicates that…

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…

Patient safety is an important issue in today’s healthcare. The Joint Commission (2015) has always developed yearly patient safety goals increasing the importance this concept has (The Joint Commission, 2015). Patient safety it is considered a discipline in the health care sector. It is used to apply safety science methods to achieve a reliable and responsible system of health care delivery. It is also a feature of the health care systems. It helps to lessen the rate and impact of adverse events…

prevalent safety improvement strategies in healthcare. However, IRS have proven to be inherently problematic as clinicians and health scientists struggle with issues affecting IRS’ perceived and actual utility. Problems arise due to the fact “sentinel/ seminal/never events/adverse events” (all terms to describe events that should not happen in healthcare) are usually uncommon and difficult to detect. IRS are prone to biases and create high-cost information and are that clinicians, patient safety…

preventable and nothing is done to solve it. Gibson and Singh (2003) mentioned, “hospitals and other health care facilities do not look to find the causes of medical errors and change the policies and practices that cause them” (p. 10). That is why many patients and their family members do not trust the health care professionals. It is our…

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…

Beaumont Health System has initiated new operations and best practices. This includes an integration of electronic health records, supply chain improvements, and opportunities to improve quality of care and operations. Coordination of high quality patient care across all setting of care is also being implemented. The main objective of Beaumont hospital is to provide high quality, efficient, accessible services, in a caring environment…

ensure patient safety (AHRQ, 2013). Question four asks whether or not a unit makes efficient use of resources available such as staff, supplies, equipment, and information (AHRQ, 2010). Unit A is an example of a unit where resources are not being used to efficiently and to safely run the unit. Unit A is a step down unit for both the Cardiac Intensive…

preventing prescription errors and consequent risk to patients (Fitzgerald, 2009). Medication errors are becoming increasingly prevalent following a patients discharge from the hospital. Barnett, et al. (2014) states that up to 70% of patients experience medication errors on discharge or during a transfer to another care setting. Safety management is extremely important. It is about ultimately ensuring that front line care is given to all patients reliably and at a standard set by the Nursing…

look at high quality, accountable care in medical communities and the high priority placed on increasing quality and safety among patients who suffer from preventable medical errors each year. “Medical errors kill enough people to fill four jumbo jets a week”. (WSJ. Makary) Thus the skills, knowledge and attitudes of nurses must be used to drive and sustain culture changes around patient and family centered care is driving medical process and procedure changes to increase the quality of care.…