Annotated Bibliography‚ National Patient Safety Goals – Hospital Denise Moe N300 Summer 2011 California State University‚ San Marcos ’Spread ’ remains challenge in patient safety improvement. (2011‚ May). Healthcare Benchmarks and Quality Improvement‚ 18(5)‚ 49-52. Purpose Patient safety is a top priority in health care‚ especially in a hospital setting. If errors are made in regards to patient safety‚ they could have dangerous consequences. Patients trust that specific systems are
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Patient Safety—Case Study #2 Sierra Billman‚ Morgan Burkholder‚ & Crystal Montgomery Indiana University School of Nursing Protecting Our Patients Patient safety is an area in which every hospital strives to excel. Patient safety is when an error is prone‚ but staff prevents it before it happens. There are hundreds of hospitals in the United States that want to improve patient safety. One case of this would be The Veterans Health Administration implementing changes to decrease the likelihood of
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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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Integrating Patient Safety in the Nursing Curriculum Ana Maria Y. Jimenez‚ RN‚ MSN‚ MAP‚ PGCE A. Introduction On the subject of Patient Safety‚ the National Institute of Medicine (2005) returns to the fundamentals of Medicine‚ reiterating what had been said over a millennia ago when Hippocrates saw the risk for injuries that arise from the good-willed actions of healers. Greek healers in the 4th Century‚ drafted the Hippocratic Oath and pledged to "prescribe regimens for the good of my patients according
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The purpose of the National Patient Safety Goals (NPSG) is to improve patient safety via the application of evidence based practice in areas of medical care that have been identified as high risk for resulting in patient harm (Mascioli & Carrico‚ 2016). The organization is extremely focused on meeting the NPSGs‚ however‚ there has not been a formal assessment of the organization’s culture of safety. The hospital focuses on the individual goals‚ collects data‚ and‚ based on the statistics‚ puts into
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and initiated the Patient Safety Initiative at Children’s Hospital and Clinics by transforming mindsets and culture within the hospital. Key initiatives implemented by her included (a) Introduction of a Blameless Patient Safety Reporting System (b) Conducting Focus Groups and (c) Setting up of Patient Safety Steering Committee. Building Block 1: A supportive learning environment (key activities implemented‚ key challenges and effectiveness of endeavor) 1.1 Psychological Safety 1.1.1 Blameless
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Current Issues in Quality and Safety Current Issues in Quality and Safety The safety of medication administration has become a universal issue and crucial for one ’s wellbeing. The majority of hospitalized patients are treated with medications (Agyemang & While‚ 2010). The medical treatment of patients has a direct effect on the patient ’s quality of life. Srinivasan declared "patients have a right to know they are receiving safe care" (as cited by Zhani‚ 2012‚ p. 1). The purpose of
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Rounding: Improving Patient Care and Safety Purpose: * PATIENT SAFETY * Reducing preventable errors resulting in facility acquired illness/injury * Reducing increased healthcare costs related to errors due to inadequate shift change reports * Involving patients in their own care by allowing them to be involved in their own report during shift change * Reducing barriers to communication between patient‚ family‚ and staff Benefits: * PATIENT SAFETY * Allows nurse to
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A hospital is a faced paced dynamic environment involving private and personal life changing events to the patients it serves. Patients depend on the doctors‚ nurses‚ and laboratory technicians‚ all persons that will be involved in their care‚ to have the training and experience to provide the highest quality of care and safe‚ effective treatment. Publication of the report “To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System” in 2000 has brought to public attention to the numerous errors that can
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Patient safety culture plays an important role for the whole health care team. It has been an aspect for the quality of health care delivery. The complexnature of critical care increases the opportunity formedical errors (Stockwell &Slonim 2006). Patient safety culture is based on the health care team’s commitment to caring‚ their competencies‚ attitude throughout the care and how proficient they are on caring a patient. Upon ensuring the patient’s safety culture‚ it is also considered as prevention
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