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...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...
15 Pages(3750 words)Essay
...? Managing Patient Safety Report Word Count: 3,080 Introduction Managing the safety of patients is a crucial aspect of healthcarethroughout the world, and it has become a large focus of many healthcare and international organisations, due to a strong focus on minimising adverse effects and unnecessary patient deaths. This report examines a patient safety incident that occurred within a hospital in the United States, where a patient with an ICD device underwent surgery without any complications. However, the device was turned off prior to the surgery and a combination of system and human factors resulted...
12 Pages(3000 words)Research Paper
...). In addressing patient safety, the following has to be considered: Principles of patient safety, individual factors in patient errors, systems issues in patient errors, risk assessment machinery, the a patient safety culture, safety issues from practice, the international perspective of patient safety, effects of patient safety incidents, leadership styles and their influence of quality care. The fundamental concept of the science of patient safety is always...
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...? 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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...? 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 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...
5 Pages(1250 words)Term Paper
...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 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...
2 Pages(500 words)Research Paper
...is what constitutes organizational climate of a health service organization and it is “the frame of reference through which individuals (workers) make sense of organizational life” in a health care facility (Ngo, Foley and Loi, 2009, p.668). Hence, organizational climate can be viewed as one of the most important mediating element in patient safety (Walston, Al-Omar and Al-Mutari, 2008, p.35). This mediation happens through human resource management. Though there can be many aspects to human resource management that can lead to patient safety, this study envisages focusing on two specific elements of it, namely, leadership and high performance work...
60 Pages(15000 words)Thesis
...National Patient Safety Goals and Leadership According to the Future of Nursing: Leadership by Tim Porter; leadership is very important in the healthcare field as it guides the manner in which patients are treated and the kind of treatment that they receive on a daily basis. It is the senior leadership who provides a guideline of the type of treatment to be given to the patients and these are implemented by the junior staff. Nurses have an important role to play in this regard as they are the ones with direct contact to the patients. It is therefore the role of individual nurses to implement the appropriate strategies that will ensure there is an increase in the access, quality and value to the patients in the health care facility... . As...
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