Patient Identifier Research Paper
Patient Safety plays a major component in providing a safe and accurate care. And (JCAHO) Joint Commission and Accreditation on Healthcare Organization plays a significant role on quality, safety and improvements.
The accuracy and safety of the patient is at the top priority of any organization and nursing personnel. When patients walk into a health care facility, the patient must be identifying by a certain criteria. Most hospital has what they called patient identifier. It is most often an account that is created with a medical record number that enable the patient to be identified within the system. The main component of the identifier is a date of birth, social security number, and the patient full name. at any health facility that you …show more content…
It would be very rare to find a situation where two patients have the same social security number. The likely wood of that happening is minimal. Same name yes; even similar DOB that is a possibility but SSN would be rare but not ever. Maintaining proper identifier is crucial and must be followed by every staff member. We are human and we often make mistake. By everyone working together, and not be negligent, it would reduce unnecessary risk to the patient safety. For patient identifier to work at its best, all employee/ staff must be engaged and willing to carryout out these core measures that would guaranty a high quality of care. Pt should always be involved as well. Pt should be engage by relaying the information back to the health care professional before and …show more content…
1). JACHO is a not for profit organization and is the driving force behind quality care and safety for the public at large. There are not the only organizations that patrol the health care industries to make sure them doing their best in providing maximum safety. It appears to be that most organization strives to get accreditation by JACHO. And when JACHO is said to be coming for a visit which most of the time is not scheduled, where I work, everyone would frequently be reminded on policy and procedures of the company in the event a JACHO representative where to speak with a staff
The accuracy and safety of the patient is at the top priority of any organization and nursing personnel. When patients walk into a health care facility, the patient must be identifying by a certain criteria. Most hospital has what they called patient identifier. It is most often an account that is created with a medical record number that enable the patient to be identified within the system. The main component of the identifier is a date of birth, social security number, and the patient full name. at any health facility that you …show more content…
It would be very rare to find a situation where two patients have the same social security number. The likely wood of that happening is minimal. Same name yes; even similar DOB that is a possibility but SSN would be rare but not ever. Maintaining proper identifier is crucial and must be followed by every staff member. We are human and we often make mistake. By everyone working together, and not be negligent, it would reduce unnecessary risk to the patient safety. For patient identifier to work at its best, all employee/ staff must be engaged and willing to carryout out these core measures that would guaranty a high quality of care. Pt should always be involved as well. Pt should be engage by relaying the information back to the health care professional before and …show more content…
1). JACHO is a not for profit organization and is the driving force behind quality care and safety for the public at large. There are not the only organizations that patrol the health care industries to make sure them doing their best in providing maximum safety. It appears to be that most organization strives to get accreditation by JACHO. And when JACHO is said to be coming for a visit which most of the time is not scheduled, where I work, everyone would frequently be reminded on policy and procedures of the company in the event a JACHO representative where to speak with a staff