Patient Safety

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Patient Safety Hello class, My healthcare organization considers patient safety as a key determinant of quality patient care. As such, the organization promotes a “just culture” whose ultimate goal is to ensure patient safety via establishing an organization-wide mindset about safety. According to Murray et al. (2022), this culture promotes learning how to manage behavioral choices and developing safe systems that prevent the repetition of adverse events. As a result, mistakes and errors in my organization do not lead to automatic punishment; rather, mistakes and errors that are not malicious or deliberate are considered as opportunities for education, counseling, and coaching. This practice helps lower the probability of repeated errors. Further, it leads to increased error reporting, which fosters a safer environment for patients and staff. This culture makes staff feel psychologically empowered and safe to speak up or report their own errors and those they observe in others as they know doing so will help the parties involved understand the behavioral choices they made to lead to the error and how to remedy the situation and ensure the error is not repeated. In essence, they know they will be treated fairly. My organization has had several cases of medication errors; therefore, I think this is an area the organization can focus on to improve patient safety outcomes. The organization can continue enhancing safety in this regard by investing in advanced clinical decision support systems (CDSSs). In addition to CDSSs that support drug selection, allergy checking, and providing guidance on dosing, the organization should invest in CDSSs that offer duplicate therapy checking and drug interaction checking. This is important because, currently, many patients have comorbidities that require them to take multiple drugs. If not checked properly, the drugs a patient uses can interact, which can exacerbate the situation rather than help a patient heal (Wasylewicz and Scheepers-Hoeks, 2018). Morris et al. (2022) assert that interprofessional collaboration is vital for promoting the quality of care and safety of care. Effective healthcare depends on multiple disciplines working collaboratively to take care of patient needs. According to research, quality of care, safety of care, and hence patient outcomes are maximized when different disciplines work collaboratively toward a shared goal. References Morris, M., Mulhall, C., Murphy, P. J., & Eppich, W. J. (2022). Interdisciplinary collaborative working on surgical ward rounds: Reality or rhetoric? A systematic review. Journal of Interprofessional Care , 37 (4), 674- 688. https://doi.org/10.1080/13561820.2022.2115023 Murray, J. S., Clifford, J., Larson, S., Lee, J. K., & Sculli, G. L. (2022). Implementing just culture to improve patient safety. Military Medicine , 188 (7-8), 1596- 1599. https://doi.org/10.1093/milmed/usac115 Wasylewicz, A. T., & Scheepers-Hoeks, A. M. (2018). Clinical decision support systems. Fundamentals of Clinical Data Science , 153- 169. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99713-1_11

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