Safety Techniques Nurses need to know and apply proper hand washing techniques, wear gloves during patient care, and use anti-bacterial hand lotion or soap. Nurses need to know the location of the bio-hazard containers and when to use them so as to limit the spread of infection. Nurses need to apply the 3 reads and 5 rights when administering medication to avoid any form of error. (The unintended). Nurses need to apply safety during patient transfer.
Page 1 Western Governors University Nursing-Sensitive Indicators Tracy Wallace Page 2 In the case of Mr. J, the 72 year old retired Rabbi, with dementia and a fractured hip, who was restrained in his bed and had a red depressed area over his lower spine and who was fed pork, which is against his religion to eat, will be discussed in this paper. In order for a hospital to continue satisfying its patients and doctors, there must be guidelines for staff to follow. In this particular scenario, the redness on Mr. J’s lower spine could have been prevented by the staff releasing the patient per hospital protocol and massaging the area then making sure that no more pressure was placed on that area. One way that Nursing-Sensitive indicators
This regulation concerns how food should be handled safely to avoid contamination and food poisoning. This is in order to protect the service user from potential harm; in addition, it is a legal requirement. 2) An agreed way of working could be to protect the service user’s confidentiality. As long as a situation does not place the service user in danger or give cause for concern, then a care worker must keep information given to them confidential. It is the responsibility of the healthcare worker to handle information appropriately; this applies to all information whether it is an opinion given verbally, social information, or financial or medical records.
RTT Task 2 Establishing a root cause analysis (RCA) especially in a healthcare situation is a fundamental step to avoid future cases of patient negligence as noted with the unfortunate death of Mr. B. The step leads to proper problem solving and identifying faults especially in training and skills transfer amongst health practitioners. However, in consideration of causative factors that lead to a sentinel event such as a patient’s outcome, there are issues worth revisiting. First, it is imperative to describe the problem or define the event through the inclusion of quantitative and qualitative attributes. In the given case study, for instance, future provision of moderate sedation and additional backup must remain a mandatory exercise.
RTT1 Task 1 Carmen Miranda-Maze Western Governors University RTT1 TASK 1 In this scenario several hospital employees provide care for a 72 year-old male retired rabbi patient. The patient was admitted with a broken hip, he is restrained and during his stay he was given the wrong meal tray. Nursing-sensitive indicators such as pressure ulcers and patient satisfaction will be addressed. These indicators can be addressed and measured by the hospital through collecting data pertaining to pressure ulcer prevention and Press Ganey scores for patient satisfaction. The ethical issue of the wrong food tray will be addressed by using the appropriate referrals and resources.
That one receptionist can change the whole mood of the patient, which continuing on into the visit with the physician. This can make it hard for the physician to treat the patient because the patient may feel closed off now or less receptive to advice from the physician. So I would find interdependence very important knowledge to have in any health care field. Sensitivity is something that is necessary to have when dealing with others. In the health care field one needs to be aware of others feelings
The nurses may make sure that no patients have split any coffee in the lounge as the disabled patients may slip over and hurt themselves if the liquid is not mopped up. The nurses should also have good hygiene, which means they should wash their hands after assisting a patient to the bathroom; otherwise they could spread germs to the other patients. Also if the nurses feel unwell they must not come into to work otherwise they could spread an infection to the patients and the other nurses. Physical comfort Physical comfort means being in an environment that ensures the patients are as comfortable as possible. The less able patients within a nursing home sometimes the less able patients may not be able to control their own environment, so the nurses must provide this.
As Nurses, it is important to wash our hands before and after patient contact. Hand hygiene is the single most important practice when reducing the spread of infection during patient care (Folan, Baillie, 2009). The CVB (Care Value Base) is an ethical code which governs how caregivers need to act in certain situations within a health and social care setting. They must not be discriminating, violating people’s rights or providing poor care for their patients. The caregivers must however protect patients from harm, maintain confidentiality and respect patients’ privacy.
For example, I can delegate the task of emptying a catheter to a nursing assistant instead of having the nurse do it. Identifying the ability and skill is important as well. I will not be able to delegate a task of inserting an intravenous line if the nurse does not have training on it. To choose the right person we also need to consider the personality, reliability, and commitment because it can make the tasks of delegation easier. If a person is committed and reliable, then we know that the task will be done.
Problem solving is another area of informal leadership a professional nurse possesses. Upon encountering a problem, whether noted objectively or overheard through another’s complaint, the nurse employing leadership will not vent and complain to others, but take a different approach such as discuss with others with questions such as ‘have you noticed a problem when; entering this information in the computer, working with the IV pump, difficulty replacing universal precaution equipment, working with a Dr. Smith during procedures?’ etc. After garnering this information and determining if this is a static problem or ongoing, the nurse exemplifying the problem solving leadership will determine the next step whether further investigation is required, increasing an order of supplies, or approaching management and communicating with them. These actions will define and determine if the nurse is an effective leader. The assigned titles “manager”, “director”, “administrator” do not determine the leader, but the actions, attitude, and professionalism of the person determines the level of leadership.