FACTORS AFFECTING PATIENT SAFETY AS PERCEIVED BY STAFF NURSES IN SELECTED HOSPITALS IN METRO MANILA I. INTRODUCTION A) BACKGROUND “The biggest challenge to moving toward a safer health system is changing the culture from one of blaming individuals for errors to one in which errors are treated not as personal failures‚ but as opportunities to improve the system and prevent harm.” - Institute of Medicine ‘99 Issues related to a lack of patient safety have been reported for decades
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having a career in the medical field‚ is bound to have patients come in who’s allegation may not always be true due to tests contradicting their information. These are the types of situation where‚ as a physician‚ one needs to be careful in order to prevent making the patient angry or in some cases embarrassed. As physicians‚ it is our job to make sure that our patients feel they can be trusted and respected at the same time. Personally‚ I need to make sure that all of the information I have in front of
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suffered from poor circulation caused by diabetes underwent surgery for below the knee amputation. When he woke up from surgery he realized they amputated the wrong leg. Undergoing surgery is traumatic enough‚ but having the wrong limb removed is a mistake that has irreversible effects. Negligence and malpractice will be discussed‚ followed by the importance of documentation. Within the context of medical cases‚ the terms negligence‚ gross negligence‚ and malpractice are used to describe a case. It
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University DigitalCommons@USU All Graduate Reports and Creative Projects Graduate Studies‚ School of 4-1-2011 Improving Patient Satisfaction in a Hospital Foodservice System Using Low-Cost Interventions: Determining Whether a Room Service System is the Next Step Vanessa A. Theurer Utah State University Recommended Citation Theurer‚ Vanessa A.‚ "Improving Patient Satisfaction in a Hospital Foodservice System Using Low-Cost Interventions: Determining Whether a Room Service System is the
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Patient Portals HCS/490 January 28‚ 2013 Russell Wettstein Patient Portals Every day more and more people use the internet to communicate with friends‚ family‚ and coworkers. The internet is used for banking‚ making reservations‚ reading books‚ and now they can manage their health care online. Many providers now offer health care portals to their patients. They can email their physician‚ check lab results‚ and even make appointments right from the comfort of their home. Portals have
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man burnt beyond recognition‚ meet in the last moments of the Second World War. The identity of the patient is the heart of the story as he tells his memories of a doomed love affair in the North African desert. Love and passion are set against the devastation of war in this inspired novel by Canadian writer Michael Ondaatje. It is a novel of revelation‚ and just as the identity of the English patient is slowly revealed as the novel progresses‚ so are the inner selves and spiritual identities of the
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A patient experience that stands out as significant is the day I had an exchanged patient from a different country. This patient came in because part of her tooth fell out. When she pointed to the tooth‚ I saw she had a huge carious lesion. I told her to get a dental exam so the dentist can diagnose the suspicious disease. She refused to get a dental exam because the dentist was not going to fix her tooth that same day. I told her about Open Door and she agreed to a call them. During that visit‚
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with the patient. As a nurse‚ I must assess the patient’s age‚ cultures‚ level of understanding and readiness to learn. The age of my patient can make a difference. When dealing with a young mother‚ there is a lot of teaching to be done especially if she is a first-time mother. I want to be able to level my teaching with my patient’s age level‚ in a way that she can feel being respected and acknowledge accordingly. When it comes to being a mother‚ cultures have some effect on teaching a patient as well
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College Reading and Writing 110 August 11‚ 2010 The English Patient Michael Ondaatje’s book The English Patient was published in 1992. At first this book would appear to be a mystery at first‚ but at heart it is a story of romance‚ growing up‚ and the war. This book takes place at an abandoned villa in Italy toward the end of World War II. Due to the authors writing style he flip flops between characters and settings though out the book making it confusing for some and intriguing for others.
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Running head: MODEL OF NURSING CARE AND PATIENT SAFETY Model of Nursing Care and Patient Safety October 10‚ 2009 Model of Nursing Care and Patient Safety The purpose of this paper is to identify and describe the model of nursing care used in my facility‚ and how it relates to the American Nurses Code of Ethics (ANA) and patient safety guidelines. The hospital I worked for is a catholic based nonprofit organization‚ which uses Patient Centered Nursing Care model in most of the areas
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