Rights of Medication Safety Medication plays a key role in healthcare but can also be an important key cause of medical error. Patients are entitled to receive safe care including receiving the correct medications. The administration of medication is a daily routine for nurses therefore, it is vital to remember the “Five Rights” of medication safety. Many different things can go wrong when it comes to the administering medication, for example communication between the patient and the nurse could go wrong, or the labeling of the medication, even the dosage can cause improper usage of the drug. The question is what role do nurses play when it comes to medication safety?
Its Primary purpose is to ensure quality patient care and managing the cost of that care. Its secondary purpose as defined by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) deals with individual users for education, regulations, policies and public health from data entered, verified, corrected or analyzed directly or indirectly. Homeland Security has recently been added to the list of users, including patient care providers, managers and staff, coders and patients themselves. Patients can make changes as necessary. Other users might include lawyers, employers, law enforcement and researchers.
By providing an efficient intake process, a certain flow can be maintained to move the process along smoothly and more organized. If any of the processes are not organized there will be a lot of confusion and unhappy patients. Patient satisfaction should be a step that is included in any health care facility. The patient intake process usually began when a patient calls to schedule an appointment. This is usually where the patients personal information is obtain such as their name, phone number, date of birth, address, reason for the appointment, name of health care coverage and referring physicians if there is any.
There are three reasons proper chart documentations are important: to avoid lawsuits, keep accurate medical information for patient, and to maintain proper communication from one professional to another. Avoiding Malpractice Suits People sue for a lot of reasons today, and one of them just happens to be improper charting that causes errors. Attorneys on the plaintiff side gather every chart and record that was made during the time in question. The proper chart documentation can either be the nail in the coffin for a case, or the factor that decides wrong doing and monetary compensation. It is imperative that documentation is done thoroughly and properly every time data is recorded.
Life and Death Issues in Healthcare A Review of the Case Study HS101 Abstract There are many issues raised by life and death choices in healthcare. Advance directives are a set of directions you give about the healthcare you want if you ever lose the ability to make decisions for yourself. If you have a disease you can choose curative care which is directed at healing or curing the disease or palliative care which involves care that helps relieve the symptoms, but does not cure or treat then disease. When it becomes apparent that a patient is approaching the end of life, or that the patient no longer wants to prolong their life, a decision can be be made to withhold or withdraw treatment. Advance directive laws merely give doctors and others immunity if they follow it, the only reliable strategy is to discuss your values and wishes with your healthcare providers ahead of time to make sure they are clear about what you want.
What information should be protected, How to deter security as well as how to keep this organization patient’s records safe. By having this knowledge one is already securing the organizations patient’s records. There are a number of threats that affects organizations electronic medical records. These threats come from both internal and external and from both those with malicious and maligned intent. Meaning the potential exists that something needs to be done.
Confidentiality of Health Information, HIT 109 Research project number (40903400) The American Medical Association (AMA) has established nine guidelines to assist physicians and computer organizations to provide the confidentiality of health care information in his/her medical record when saved in computerized databases. The following eight questions contain AMA Opinion 5.07 – Confidentiality: Computers nine guidelines information. Question 1: Should corrections be date and time stamped? Within the health care industry, mistakes can and are made in a patient’s paper or electronic medical record(s) (EMR’s). When mistakes appear, it is important for the authorized personal that made the original entry to make corrections to a patient’s medical record(s).
For example: If a care support worker has found an effective means of communication with an individual they support, but has not made an accurate record to share their knowledge, their colleagues will not know the individuals preferences. This could result in causing distress to the individual. Updating and maintaining the accuracy of records and reports is vital to any care setting. The information could include personal information about the receiving care, the organisation, the people working there or for administrative purposes. This information can come in a range of ways, such as, - verbally (conversations, face to face or telephone) - on paper (Letter, individuals health records or instructions from health professionals) How to ensure records are stored securely Storing confidential paper records · Keep confidential records in locked storage cabinets or rooms.
Patient Privacy HCS 335 February 18, 2014 Patient Privacy In today’s health care organizations, patient privacy is a major problem within the health care system. Current improvements in technology have reformed the provision of health care and the systems used to record and retrieve health information. During the course of this paper, it will discuss the affect patient privacy has on the community and legal and ethical issues associated with patient privacy. It will also discuss managerial duties as well as proposed solutions to maintain patient privacy. Health care professionals have an obligation to protect the rights to patient privacy when it concerns patient’s personal and medical information.
This core principle also relates to any discussions, assessments, treatments and medicines that are given and the patients records should be completed and updated as soon as an event has occurred. The Data Protection Act (1998) also addresses that information held about a patient for health reasons should be fairly and lawfully processed, accurate and secure. The recent Francis Report (2013) discovered the inadequacies in record keeping at Mid Staffordshire NHS and discovered that a number of deficiencies were occurring too frequently. The inquiry found inaccuracies in the recordings of patient's deaths, authors who had inputted information on records were not clearly identifiable and limited background information was recorded about a patients history, condition or social history. As a result a review of note keeping amongst healthcare staff is to be carried out.