HS711 CLINICAL GOVERNANCE AND PATIENT SAFETY Student no 1106154 UP:12/04/2012-07:22:52 WM:12/04/2012-07:23:40 M:HS711-4-SP A:11a1 R:1106154 C:247CF1EADC9DA0F26065022703A21C45C87E8E62 The aim of this assignment is to explore the clinical governance in connection with the provision of patient safety when administering drugs‚ study will relate to an incident in the author workplace (See appendix 1). The author presents the outcomes of Care Quality Commission (CQC 2010) related to this situation
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National Patient Safety Goals are a specific way to focus on what are believed to be significant safety practices that have been identified by The Joint Commission as ways to improve on the care and safety of patients. These safety practices have established an approach to medical care that is now implemented by nurses and health care facilities nationwide. The use of two patient identifiers to verify that the correct medicine and/or treatment is being given to the correct patient is the
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the issue of Patient Safety is on growing evidence‚ it cannot be considered as a novelty. More recently‚ we have followed the disclosure of news involving errors during health care in the media‚ with the connotation that they are always associated with neglect or lack of preparation‚ as well as with bad professional practices. Although errors are undesirable‚ there is no denying that they occur and have an impact on patients‚ professionals and institutions. Contextualizing patient safety in the scenario
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information being kept private by the nurse caring for him (Burns‚ 2015). This implies that the nurse has a responsibility to maintain Sam’s confidentiality‚ because they have legal requirements to do so (Aldworth‚ 2009). This is supported by the nursing and midwifery council (2015) which states that within all care settings nurses should always make sure they are respecting their patient’s right to privacy. This implies that the nurse should keep personal information about Sam confidential and only
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Patient Safety: Induction Every healthcare workers main focus is to make sure that their patient is safe. But according to the Ulrich and Kear‚ “one million people were injured and 98‚000 died from medical related errors” (2014). In a health care setting‚ a medical error can be something as simple as a nurse forgetting to put the side rail of the bed up after giving care‚ resulting to the patient falling and getting injured. To a more complex matter as a nurse gives the patient a wrong medication
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society‚ all Australians at some stage will be a patient or have a significant other as a patient in a health care setting. It is the right of every individual to receive safe and quality in health care regardless of the health care setting. The purpose of this essay is to discuss the elements that constitute patient safety and the assessment of quality in health care provision within health care institutions‚ including organisational and nursing strategies for care delivery and evaluation of standards
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Discuss three patient safety issues that are present in the scenario. 1) Sara signed off medications on the MAR but she did not actually witness the patient taking the prescribed medications. 2) Sara left the medications unattended at the bedside. This is a careless practice. She should have carried them back to the nurse’s station and reattempted to administer the meds after the patient finished bathing. 3) Unexpected change in the patient’s vital signs. The scenario reports there has been
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Essentially‚ the term abuse is an issue facing the nursing profession today. Many unreported cases of encountered verbal and physical abuse have been found to be ample in acute and complex care settings. These cases are amongst professional individuals (nurse-nurse and nurse-physician abuse) and also among the patient abusing the nurses. Effectively‚ abuse is not only a Canadian issue. It has been reported internationally as well. Thus‚ many nurses today are lobbying for the decrease of abuse within
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the amount of workload that health care workers are faced with each day. Health care workers most of the time care for more hospitalized patients than they can handle and they are in charge of additional amount of paperwork. Those factors not only can compromise the patient safety‚ but also it can affect the workers stress level and mental health. As a future Medical student‚ personally this issue it is really important and it needs to be solved urgently for the safety of patients and for the future
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Nurses play a vital role in achieving the safety and quality of patient care and reducing adverse outcomes. Patient safety is one the most important component of our health care system and is essential to quality health care. The QSEN defines safety for nurses as “minimize(ing) risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance”. Patients’ safety is a one of the most challenging matter for the reason that errors and mistakes can and do happen. In
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