A patient presenting with a head injury can pose a lot of complications and the nurse needs to assess and monitor the patient thoroughly. Management of traumatic brain injury focuses on stabilisation of the patient and prevention of secondary neurologic damage due to high intracranial pressure. Assessment of the brain injury hinges on evaluation of the Glasgow coma scale, GCS and examination of the pupils (Chesnut, 2006, p.1). Nurses make important clinical decisions everyday and these decisions have an effect on the patient’s healthcare and the actions of other health care professionals, as the emergency department treats patients with various complex needs nurses need to rely on sound decision making skills and assess monitor and
Root Cause Analysis of a Case Study Alice Holliday Western Governors University Organizational Systems and Quality Leadership RTT1 Root Cause Analysis of a Case Study Healthcare presents numerous opportunities for patients to be helped by healthcare personnel. Unfortunately, there are also numerous opportunities for patients to be failed by healthcare personnel. When patients are failed by healthcare personnel, it is required by the Joint Commission for hospitals to carry out a Root Cause Analysis in order to understand the systems within the organization that failed so that improvements can be made and the failures can be prevented from happening in the future. (Cherry & Jacob, 2011) This paper will describe how a Root Cause Analysis (RCA) can be used following the death of a patient, and how Change Theory and Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) can be utilized to come up with ways to prevent the failure from being repeated. A. Root Cause Analysis A Root Cause Analysis is an organized process used to determine the processes that lead to sentinel events.
Compliance plans are used to find, correct, and prevent fraud and abuse in medical care facilities. Compliance plans correlate to different medical records by helping prevent mistreatment of a patient’s sensitive personal information. Compliance plans also help prevent fraud and abuse by a medical care facility’s staff. It is important for every member of the medical staff to properly follow the facility’s compliance plan to prevent civil or criminal litigation. If a facility fails to comply with the compliance plan they could face lawsuits from patient’s or fines from government agencies.
Communication Theory Paper Your name Axia College of University of Phoenix Communication Theory Paper Hospice is an organization that one must use effective communication as a crucial facet in connection with patients and their care. In the role of health care surroundings, an organization selected to hospice care could meet some opposition when dealing with communication due to gender dissimilarities, cultural differentiations, and in some cases, the failure to communicate successfully with those acquiring assistance. State of affairs such as these can impinge on how particular duties are accomplished within the organization, whether one will want to keep on utilizing the services of hospice, and if staff, patients, and relatives
This goal targets the prevention of mortality from health care-associated infections caused by several different drug resistant organisms, surgical related infections, and infections of the bloodstream related to catheter insertion. Catheter insertion requires regular practices that include hand sanitation before catheter operation (Singleton, 2008). The concern of this goal is the prevention of infection. Utilization of hand cleaning guidelines that are provided by the World Health Organization and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is required in hospitals. Hospitals must also submit reports of injury and death to patients that result from infections that were acquired while staying in the hospital (2009 Hospital National Patient Safety Goals, 2008).
Rebecca O’Gorman Unit 3 - Unit 3 Health, Safety and Security in Health and Social Care Task 3 – Risk Assessment Day Helen Hand Hazard | Who may be harmed? | Likelihood of the hazard causing harm? | Severity of hazard | Risk factor | Control measures | medical emergency | a medical emergency can happen at any time due to many of reason so any one could be at risk | 4/5 | 5/5 | 20/25 | Ensuring there is a first aid trained member of staff on the trip who is able to care for the person if a medical emergency takes place | wet weather | Due to rain this may cause resident or member of staff to slip especially those who are already unstable on their feet | 3/5 | 3/5 | 9/25 | You can’t exactly prevent the rain from happening as you can’t control the weather, but you could check weather forecast beforehand and if you know it will be raining ensure everyone has suitable footwear | lake | Anyone with a walking disability as it could one take one trip for them to fall in the lake | 2/5 | 3/5 | 6/25 | This can be controlled by ensuring all residents are being watched at all times so a fall could be prevented. | bus break down | All passengers would be at risk as this could take place on a motorway or busy road which is a hazard to everyone. | 2/5 | 3/5 | 6/25 | Ensure the correct precautions are put in place and there is some sort of breakdown cover put in place.
Education is a huge part of patient care and the FHA provides educational meetings and training programs to accelerate improvement of care and safety. According an article in the Miami Herald several South Florida hospitals have been under scrutiny for several different safety issues. These safety issues include bed sores, blood clots and an increase in patient falls (Chang, 2014). Nurses and doctors play a huge role in preventing these accidents and making the hospital setting a safer place for patients. Increased education and awareness can help to decrease the incident of hospital acquired illnesses.
In hospitals, the communication dynamics during disasters may differ because of several reasons. First, communication problems occur during disasters because hospital and management system that work well on a day to day basis cannot meet the additional needs of the disaster. It will be hard for the hospital to function
Introduction Health experts face the challenge of rapid response to disaster, which is becoming very common not only in this country, but also in other parts of the world. Terrorism, natural disasters, major accidents are some of the possible cases that may require rapid response among the health experts as they struggle to save lives and relieve the victims of their pain. Rapid response to disaster is not a responsibility of a specific institution. All the healthcare institutions, both public and private, must come together in order to coordinate closely in responding to such disasters. According to Edberg (2006), regional health information organizations (RHIO) have become the common platforms for sharing relevant data in such cases.
Many in our care have also got weakened immune systems and as a consequence are more susceptible to infection from the outset. We want to give the patients in our care the best treatment and quality of care possible and this would not be possible without infection control. Were we to neglect patient control their quality of life and indeed health would deteriorate, they would get sick and suffer and in extreme cases would die. This runs totally contrary to the attitudes, duties and commitments we hold so dear as healthcare workers. In this assignment I will introduce, explain and discuss one of the most topical worldwide infections in the workplace – mainly hospitals and other places of healthcare environment; MRSA.