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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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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Understanding the Patient Intake Process An essential part of the healthcare business is good patient /provider communication. To improve the patient/care-provider communication and the quality of healthcare services a facility could use the technology of the internet. Businesses in insurmountable numbers are using internet to improve their services. In fact the only major industry resisting the use of the worldwide web as we use it in other sectors of the economy today is the healthcare industry
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Understanding the Patient Intake Process HCR/220 Understanding the Patient Intake Process When looking at the intake process of patients‚ into a medical facility‚ it is an obvious realization that we have made progress in making the patients experience proficient and pleasant. However there is always room for improvement in any type of facility. How many times have you been to the doctor and waited long than 20 minutes? Have you ever been rescheduled because you were 20 minutes late
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Communication Issues and the Effects on Patient Safety There are several factors that are important to health care safety‚ one of the most critical factors being good communication. When someone thinks about the requirements needed to be a nurse‚ he or she may think of the need for scientific knowledge. However‚ to be a nurse one has to have more than just scientific knowledge. Nurses need to possess other skills‚ one of those being the ability to communicate effectively. Communication is like
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Remembering that patients are human is very important when working in the healthcare field. Patients are not products or a diagnosis‚ they are humans and should be treated accordingly. Getting to know a patient is important to ensure the best treatment possible. Receiving additional information from patients allow medical personnel to advocate for the patient’s best interest. Patient advocacy is important to make sure all patients are treated with respect and dignity. Patients should have a voice
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Patient Zero Lab Report Dashell Zamm The Immune system is one of the most important parts of the human body. Its role is to protect us from outside dangers such as pathogens and disease and to keep the body healthy. The immune system protects the body from disease by having a complex system of organs and cells to keep the body safe. The first barrier of the immune system and of the body is the skin which keeps out pathogens from entering the body‚ but if there is a cut in the body‚ the skin can
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position of a patient escort (1 page max). Place special emphasis in behavioral skill (competencies) needed to perform that job. The typical procedure is for the nurse to call for a patient escort; the escort gets a wheelchair and goes to the patient’s room‚ assists the patient into the wheelchair‚ picks up the patient’s belongings‚ wheels the patient down the hospital’s front door or to his or her car in the parking lot‚ and returns to the work station. Job specification of patient escort:
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Patient self-determination is defined by the text as a law that requires healthcare organizations to inform patients of their rights as they pertain to their ability to determine the own healthcare. The Patient Self-Determination Act was drafted and enacted Congress in 1990. The law required healthcare institutions to provide information about advance healthcare directives to patients upon their admission to the healthcare facilities. The premise of the Patient Self-Determination Act was to inform
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Patient Abandonment: An Annotated Bibliography A changing practice that should be examined by all new nurses is the abandonment of a patient. Many nurses do not see clocking out at the end of their shift without giving report to the oncoming nurse as abandonment. These nurses believe that they have left the patients in another nurses’ care and therefore they have not abandoned them. The previous example is showing physical abandonment‚ however psychological abandonment can be equally
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