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Marquetta D. Henderson, J00021021
February 25, 2024
HCA.301.100-Introducation to Healthcare Organizations Spring 2024
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In this paper I will discuss importance of patient safety, the function of patient safety, and
the concepts of patient safety. I will discuss the different areas of patient safety from a hospital standpoint and nursing home facility. I will also list 5 elements of patient safety, three patient safety priorities and different ways to improve patient safety. First let me start by telling what patient safety to me is from working in the healthcare field for 15 years I’ve experienced a lot of things regarding patient safety. For example, when I work at the hospital and the first thing I would do in the morning after getting report from the overnight shift was check the board to see which patient had a fall risk sign on the board. Next, I would go make my round filling out the information needed for the patient on the whiteboard in their room. I would put my name, the date and whatever was needed for that day. If a patient was labeled as a fall risk, then I would make sure the bed alarm was on and the call light was in reach of the patient as well as the bedside table. Patient safety is the framework of activities created by cultures, procedures, processes technologies, behavior and the environment healthcare which stays consisted of to lower the risk of a fall which will reduce the risk any injury and harm to the patients. Health care is changing daily with the health systems operations. There are new treatments, care models and technology that has the potential for safe care. Patient safety has a fundamental principle that allows health care to be recognized as a growing global for public health. With a clear policy and capacity data
this will drive more safety improvements. With the help of the health care professionals this will involve families and patients educating them on the importance of patient safety. Patient safety is
defined for the safety emerged so that the health care quality movement has an equal abstract. Patient safety has also been defined for the IOM for its prevention of any harm to the patients.
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With the emphasis on the system of care delivery this will prevent errors and learn from those errors that occur, and it’s also built on the culture of safety which involves health care professionals, patients, and organizations. Patient safety practices were defined to reduce the risk
of events related to medical care, diagnosis or condition. There are several categories for patient safety. Patient safety practices are not just to reduce fall risk, but reduce health risk that can happen doing surgery, at the bedside, medication errors, pressure ulcer, allergic reaction. With the right things in place some of these issues can be prevented. Nursing is a key to improving the
quality of patient safety. Nursing has been concerned with defining and measuring the quality to help improve patient safety. For example, when a nurse avoids medication error and prevents patient from a fall. This is patient safety and quality improvement. Most critical contribute for nurses is patient safety in any setting whether its hospital, nursing home, home health or providers office the goal is patient safety first. The importance of patient safety has a positive impact on the patient’s health outcome, improving system efficiency, reducing the costs to patient harm, and to help reassure the restoring and communities of the health care system. Many mistakes can lead to harm which does not happen because of practices in the health care workers but due to the system failures that can lead to health care workers to make mistakes. When the health care worker understands the importance of how underlying causes in errors requires shifting from based thinking to blaming approach. Which means take accountability for your action when it comes to patients. A poorly designed system along with the human nature of working in a health care facility can change the process. The system approach is done without negligence or any misbehaviors due to providing care that can lead to medical management. A safe health system has been adopted.
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for the necessary measures to help avoid and reduce harm within the organization. Here’s five examples of the importance of patient safety. Making sure leadership are commitment to the safety that has been created for the culture, ensuring that the environment for working is safe and
safety procedures and clinical process, help build the competencies for health care workers this will improve teamwork and communication, allow the patient and family to engaged in the policy development, share and research decisions making with them, and establish a system for the patient safety incident reports that helps with learning and continuous improvement. The different types of patient safety are infections that has resulted to medical procedure, slip and fall accident in the hospital or nursing home facility, developed with overmedication, errors with prescription, how the medication was administered, and or managed, failure to make sure the proper standards were in place like sanitization areas within the patients room and throughout the clinical facilities, not placing the personal protective equipment on when necessary, and the care transition or discharge problems due to lack of communication with the healthcare workers. Providing a high quality of care for patient safety has been one of the higher standards for
clinical care. For example, placing a safeguard in place for misdiagnosis helps ensure that patients are treated with the correct underlying condition this also help providers that are treating
the patients to the best of their ability and not just with a peripheral symptom or a side effect. With these efforts this will ensure the hospital discharge procedure is improving, especially for the patients with chronic conditions. This will also lower the readmission for hospital stay. According to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality the understanding of the importance of patient safety has improved by 13%.
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Patient Safety The function is patient safety is to discipline the response so that the evidence of medical events is widespread and preventable. The goal for patient safety is to help minimize the adverse events and prevent harm in the health care. When patients have roles to help improve their safety,
help the healthcare organization advocating for public reporting and accountability for hospital and health performance to ensure the function of the patient safety. The basic concept of patient safety is when you have a person that is sick or someone just
who is just trying to healthy those people should not have to worry about being harm by health system. There are key principles to help motivate healthcare professionals to improve patient safety. The healthcare professionals are here to motive how to improve patient safety. The ethical
foundation, along with the professional norms are what the patient expects. Having organizational leaders that are responsible for setting standards to help achieve patient safety to the highest level of care. Consumers becoming aware of what the health care professionals have put in place for healthcare safety problems but not being accepting to it. The substantial room to help improvement for healthcare systems and practices will help decrease the reduction in errors for potential and harm to the patients.
Improving safety, the healthcare professional has to recognize the characteristics that will
make an effort a success. By collecting data on the errors and incidents to the local organization to help identify opportunities to improve and track the progress. Developing the organization culture who founded the concept of safety. Having a complex process to analyze with the appropriate tools. Standardization will accomplish individual independent authority with solving encounters in a creative way for patient safety concepts. Both safety and quality are the concepts on a continuum.
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Patient Safety There is a challenge to understand the concept of patient safety and quality. Some may ask when does the concept of patient safety end and when does the concept of patient quality start? When the care is safe and there is no harm, the lowest potential is to do no harm throughout the process. From there we should be practicing what we adapt to. Providing the highest quality of care and making sure we deliver care is the greatest potential and the best outcome for the patients. When merging both concepts, we created a opportunity for cost. The cost to ensure safety for patients. Healthcare providers understanding true cost for those actions and not ignoring the opportunity of cost will help produce illusion with the benefits of achieving to the highest standards of safety will cost nothing. It is hard to compare benefits and losses for the course of action, but it is necessary in-patient safety. For example, reducing the opportunities in medicine given by a pharmacist before you administered to the patient takes the time to makes sure the manufacturer medication contains the medication place in the prescription container for the patient. Counseling with the patient explaining how to take the medication is important. Research has shown that when the pharmacists counsel the patient regarding their medication beforehand 89% of dispensing product errors are being caught before the patient received their medication. If the pharmacists do not take the time to counsel the patient thoroughly the medication errors will increase dramatically. Another way to improve and identify safety is by applying practices to continue quality improvement. This method happens widely within many industries which includes health care. The goal is to apply practice from the patient centered perspective.
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The five Ps for patient safety are pain, positioning, possession, potty, and personal
needs. There is a purpose for the five P’s by improving patient satisfaction and the safety for patient rounding hourly on patient can reduce the numbers of fall with or without injury. Patient safety in the hospital has been the continuous focus and concern for the nursing staff. The research to finding evidence-based care is to improve patient safety. There are methods and materials in place to help nursing staff understand the purpose of hourly rounding. Focus is the first step in the method and material part. It is an essential part of the model because it helps establish the basis for what will help set the other steps to follow in motion. Analysis is the second step, the data that is collected, analyzed and identified the causes of the problem. Development is an action plan that has been developed based on data that has been examined. Execution and evaluation are the final step in quality improvement. Putting those three plans together can overall improve the process for patient safety. The purpose of hourly rounding is evidence-based model of care. This promotes a systematic and proactive approach for patient care and reducing the number of injuries to patients. Aiming to address the patient's needs on the continual basis of standardized care. Improving early detection for each patient. Improving patient satisfaction and the quality of care.
Reducing falls, medication errors and pressure ulcers for each patient. Decreasing call light usage. In conclusion, patient safety and satisfaction are the important issues in healthcare. The importance of patient safety is to ensure each patient is taken care of to the best of the organization ability. Making rounds hourly, putting fall risk precautions in place for each patient, making sure the patient has clean diapers while rounding and assuring the patient that their safety
is your number one goal during their visit or stay. Communication goes a long way in healthcare.
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1. Aspden P. Corrigan Patient safety, achieving a new standard for care, Washington DC, National Academics, Press, 2004. PubMed 2. www.nbci.nlm.nih.gov
. Patient Safety 3. https://www.who.int.com
4. https://www.medicopublication.com Purposeful Hourly Rounding
5. https://psnet.ahrq.gov/glossary.aspx
AHRQ PSNet Patient Safety Network. Patient Safety.