Patient Safety In Nursing
According to the article, more than 7000 inpatient deaths have occurred annually as a result of medication errors. Patient safety is the core value of the nursing profession, while nursing is being embraced in its caring attitude toward the patient, patient safety should be our number one priority. This article is very important to the nursing profession in part because it addresses one of the most significant issues of the profession, which is patient safety. According to the Nurse’s Practice environment article Flynn, Liang, Dickson, Xie, & Suh (2012) RNs are well positioned to serve as patient safety net. (p.180)
As noted in the article, there are many factors that many the probabilities of medication errors; nurses practice environment