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Patient Safety...September 17, Patient Safety Introduction This is an investigative report based on a letter of complaint that was received by the CEO of an ambulance trust after one of its crew had poorly treated a patient (Ravi Patel who has complained of abdominal pain and vomiting). The CEO has received letters of complaint from the patient’s relatives, especially his wife, against two employees of the trust. For the purpose of this report, there is a need for the conduction of research and for the evaluation of literature in order to study the issues that has led to these circumstances. When the patient was brought into the hospital, the ambulance personnel on duty...
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Managing Patient Safety Report...and Ferriter, 2008). The aim of this report is to examine this event in detail and determine what could have been changed to prevent this happen, and to decrease the likelihood of a similar event happening in the future. Patient Safety Advances in knowledge and technology have created a system of healthcare that is highly successful, and able to effectively treat a wide range of conditions. However, these factors have also led to the growth of the complexity of the healthcare system. This is an aspect of considerable concern, and the development of complexity brings considerable risk, and the potential of harm occurring to patients as the result of human or system factors (National...
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Managing Patient safety...? Managing Patient Safety. Introduction. Patient safety has increasing become a growing concern for both the health care practitioners and the community as a whole. However, research shows that despite public outcry, there are notable failures within the health care services that are likely to pose a threat to patient safety. The biggest challenge towards moving to a safer health system is changing the culture of blaming health professionals for errors to one in which these errors are treated, not as individual failures, but as opportunities to prevent harm and improve the system. (I.O.M, 1999). Harm occurs if a patient’s...
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Leadership and patient safety...? PATIENT’S SAFETY of Affiliation LEADERSHIP AND PATIENT’S SAFETY Managers and staff in health care facilities are required to work collaboratively to set health priorities, as well as come up with effective reforms to guarantee professionalism. This is to imply that such reforms and priorities are among the critical issues that face health care administrators. Understanding these two aspects is critical in the development of professionalism in health care system. In this paper, I explore the concepts of health care reforms and priorities that guarantee professionalism and patient’s safety in so far as the advancement of health care...
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Patient Safety...? Patient Safety According to the IOM (Institute of Medicine) report of April 2001, over 100,000 patients dieeach year in our hospitals due to medical errors. This means that patients are dying, not due to their admitting diagnosis or natural causes, but due to a medical mistake. Even more startling is the fact that most of these errors are preventable. The hiking number of patients and their complex medical wants and needs contribute to already vibrant and demanding surroundings. This exerts a heavy toll on budget causing budget deficits, which leads to staff layoffs hence risking many lives of patients in our hospitals (Morath &...
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Patient Safety & Risk Management...?Patient Safety & Risk Management The issue of accountability, responsibility, and professional ethics has been a looming problem in the health sectors for a long time. The patient safety document that was released as a result of this concern recognizes the fact errors in the medical profession are caused by hardworking, committed, and good people who try to do the right things in serving patients (Wachter & Pronovost 2009, 1401). The document suggests shifting attention from finding out who is responsible for these errors, to new ways of arresting these errors before they reach patients and cause harm. This was a positive move that led...
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Patient Safety...? Week 8 essay Root cause analysis technique is critical in analyzing the causes of medical errors. Poor communication and poor training of healthcare providers will lead to non-adherence to established operating procedures and processes in the health provision. Medical errors lead to death, injuries, suicides and other post operation complications. Risk operations like thoracic operation may result to post operation complications thus the healthcare provider should follow all the established procedures. Week 8 essay Introduction Patient safety is a critical part in the deliver of quality healthcare (Williams & Wilkins, 2007). Healthcare institutions should establish comprehensive healthcare programs to...
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Patient Safety - QSEN Initiative...? Patient Safety – QSEN initiative Yolanda McQueen Cambridge Medical Institute Patient Safety – QSEN Initiative With the increase in world populationand the healthcare industry, quality deliverance in the industry has become increasingly vital since health and life are sensitive areas. Nursing is one important factor which impacts the recovery and will-power of patients. Thus, the background of the issue revolves the need for a framework of quality and safety in the current and future healthcare system by focusing on nurturing nurses through training, adequate knowledge and skill development. To enrich the quality of treatment given to patients, it was realized that nursing standards need to be raised and standardised. ‘Innovation... in...
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Technology for patient safety...Patient Safety Technology XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXX XXX With every day that passes by we look back in time and learn from the mistakes that our ancestors and their predecessors had made. Mistakes that sometimes proved to be of the highest degree; such is the case with our clinical and hospital infrastructure. Man’s progressed in technology; the sure implementation of which, in every possible way, must be ensured in every field. Sadly, health care is deprived of that with regards to patient safety. Every day tens, if not hundreds and thousands, errors occur U.S. alone, examples of which include, wrong identification of the patient, wrong drug prescription, infectious contact with staff, or a prescription that has a reactive quality... with...
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Patient Safety...Patient Safety One of the fundamental causes of medical errors is the lack of patient’s knowledge of the process and consequences of the treatment. With no knowledge of treatment, patients are susceptible to taking expired medicines, avoiding the medical tests or showing ignorance or indifference towards the results, going to the hospitals with insufficient or inadequate facilities, avoiding follow-up care, attaining unexpected results of surgery. FDA conducted a research to determine the fatal errors of medication experienced in the years between 1993 and 1998 (Stoppler, 2011). Among the errors identified, the most common error that was the cause of 41 per cent of all...
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