Safe Practice and Environment
SAFE PRACTICE AND ENVIRONMENT
Presented to:
Dr. Betty T. Polido
For the Course:
N 414
BSN 4C
Estiquita, Ellen May J.
Estores, Sharlaine Nove N.
July 22, 2013
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Pages
Objectives --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2
Introduction ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2
Topics I. Patient and Staff Safety -------------------------------------------------------------- 3-4
II. Maintenance of the Environment of Care ----------------------------------------- 4-5
III. Infection Control ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5-6
IV. Equipment and Supplies ------------------------------------------------------------- 6
V. Energy and Waste Management ---------------------------------------------------- 7
Lessons Learned -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8
Bibliography ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9
Objectives: 1. Discuss safe practice and environment. 2. Enumerate the standards and criteria of safe practice and environment. 3. Explain the standards and criteria safe practice and environment.
Introduction:
Maintaining a safe environment reflects a level of compassion and vigilance for patient welfare that is as important as any other aspect of competent health care. The way to improve safety is to learn about causes of error and use this knowledge to design systems of care to make errors less common and less harmful when they do occur. As a result, nurses and other health care providers have intensified their efforts to understand and change organizational conditions, components, and processes of health care systems as they relate to patient safety.
There are key elements in the workplace that strengthen and support
Presented to:
Dr. Betty T. Polido
For the Course:
N 414
BSN 4C
Estiquita, Ellen May J.
Estores, Sharlaine Nove N.
July 22, 2013
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Pages
Objectives --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2
Introduction ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2
Topics I. Patient and Staff Safety -------------------------------------------------------------- 3-4
II. Maintenance of the Environment of Care ----------------------------------------- 4-5
III. Infection Control ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5-6
IV. Equipment and Supplies ------------------------------------------------------------- 6
V. Energy and Waste Management ---------------------------------------------------- 7
Lessons Learned -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8
Bibliography ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9
Objectives: 1. Discuss safe practice and environment. 2. Enumerate the standards and criteria of safe practice and environment. 3. Explain the standards and criteria safe practice and environment.
Introduction:
Maintaining a safe environment reflects a level of compassion and vigilance for patient welfare that is as important as any other aspect of competent health care. The way to improve safety is to learn about causes of error and use this knowledge to design systems of care to make errors less common and less harmful when they do occur. As a result, nurses and other health care providers have intensified their efforts to understand and change organizational conditions, components, and processes of health care systems as they relate to patient safety.
There are key elements in the workplace that strengthen and support