Trial and error

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…

Introduction Medical errors and unexpected side effects occur relatively often in the hospital setting, where in 1999, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) reported that medical errors resulted in roughly 98,000 deaths per year, becoming the eighth leading cause of death for patients (Phillips-Bute, 2012). While this number is very alarming, the amount of public concern toward medical errors are nearly nonexistent, resulting in patients having little understanding of their rights when their health…

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…

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…

admission pro hac vice. As the trial continued to run the Judge revoked the provisional acceptance…

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…

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,…

eliminating almost all forms of systematic errors. However, time constraints often determine whether or not this can be achieved, and in this case, there was not enough time to repeat the process with new equipment. Repeating the experiment with the same equipment is also very important. The more results collected, leads to a higher precision and therefore and more statically correct mean. This particular titration displayed the number and extent of random errors as quite significant. This is…