Are Patients Safe James E. Scarbrough III Baker College of Cadillac Are Patients Safe Patient safety is an extremely valuable aspect in the health care. The definition of patient safety is an area focusing on reporting an error, analysis and prevention of medical errors that often lead to adverse patient outcomes. Prevention means keeping patients safe from errors rather than reacting to them. These standards in patient safety inspire the most challenging issues in the health care setting. Reviewing these standards annually and publishing them on The Joint Commission Website, it is a key component to improving health care (The Joint Commission, 2011).
Abstract National Patient Safety Goal 07.05.01 Preventing Infection after Surgery is a multi-level, interdisciplinary approach to healthcare promotion. Surgical site infections not only increase the length of hospital stays and costs to patients, but they also increase the risk of mortality and morbidity post-operatively. This paper focuses on the ways to prevent infections before, during, and after surgery. Preventing Infections after Surgery NPSG 07.05.01 Introduction The Joint Commission (TJC) is a national organization that sets standards for healthcare agencies to meet and adhere to, to ensure a culture of safety for all patients by encouraging patients and families to become partners with healthcare professionals in protecting patients from harm. In 2002 TJC published its first annual set of National Patient Safety Goals (NPSGs) to require healthcare agencies to focus on specific, high-risk issues in nursing care (Ignatavicius & Workman, 2012).
What's the Latest Development? Harvard medical researcher Ted Kaptchuk is finding that how placebos are administered plays a very important role in their ability to cause physiological changes in the body. A trained acupuncturist, Kaptchuck has tested the treatment's ability to work as a placebo by offering his patients qualitatively different treatments. In other words, patients who receive more care and "schmaltz" from their medical professional tend to receive the greatest benefit from sham treatments. Kaptchuk wonders to what extend, if at all, Western medicine can take advantage of the placebo effect to improve treatment.
Moreover, this paper compares how this technology is accessible and what this technology promises that it has been considered as a standard procedure for surgeries. Introduction Man has learned to maximize technology in creating something new that alleviates their lifestyle. Numerous inventions have shaped and developed the society. In the field of medicine, technology brought promising solutions. Diseases that were considered as fatal before can now be treated and even prevented.
Hospital-acquired infections are preventable and preventing them is straightforward: a code of cleanliness. Hands should be cleaned frequently with an anti-bacterial soap for at least 30 seconds. Gowns, masks and gloves should be worn frequently so that pathogens aren’t transmitted to the patient during treatment. Moreover, when moving a patient, the patient should wear a mask and should be moved only when necessary (Isolation Precaution Guidelines for Hospitals n.d.). People go to the hospital in order to get better from whatever ailment is troubling them.
Florence Nightingale Fighting Cholera in Haiti What is the goal of nursing? Well, according to Florence Nightingale, one of the most revolutionary theorists in nursing history, it is “to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him” (Nightingale, 1860). There are many new and advance technological procedures available in homes and health care environments to help treat patients, and for them to recover quickly. However, sometimes it is the simple health practices that are able to keep individuals at their best possible state. Florence Nightingale develops an understanding that the environment directly affects a patient’s wellbeing over 100 years ago; her observations are still relevant in today’s healthcare environments.
o Quality of life: Quality of life indicates a patient’s overall approval with life throughout medical treatment. An illustration for quality of life is that it improved when technology empowers individuals to live ordinary lives despite of the individual incapacitating conditions disturbing speech, hearing, vision, and movement o Healthcare costs: Technological improvements have been the solitary significant factor in medicinal fee inflation (Institute of Medicine, 2002). Firstly, there is the price of acquiring the novel technology and equipment. Second, distinctive exercise for physicians and technicians to control the equipment and to analyze the results often leads to intensifications in labor expenses. Third, novel technology may require exceptional space and facilities (McGregor, 1989).
This will also improve patient outcome drastically. The healthcare is a holistic entity which involves both the treatment of acute consequences of poor health the prevention of poor health from occurring (Martone 1992). The more successful the HCO is in preventing disease, the more successful they will be in improving patient health (Carlyon 1984). This goes a long way to prove that disease prevention fits nicely into the mission statement of the HCO which says that healthcare organizations do their best to promote healthy living. Ethically, it is the duty of the HCO’s under the umbrella of the CDC, to design/develop strategies to prevent diseases.
The purpose of risk management is to enhance patients' safety, ensure compliance with the law, avoid legal exposure, and prevent accidents. In health care and long term care (LTC) you are dealing with patients' in life or death situations. Risk management in health care organizations helps physicians and nurses limit the risks that are associated with their jobs. By having risk management in long term care facilities this helps reduce potential risks because it ensures that the medical staff are following all of the safety protocols that are set in place as well as making wise medical decisions. Legend Senior Living is located in Wichita, Kansas and was founded in 2001 by an industry pioneer named Tim Buchanan.
We Can But Should We? Dixie Hagen Chamberlain College of Nursing As healthcare embraces technology to improve patient care outcomes, streamline operations, and lower costs, are the technology’s that makes life simpler. But who will benefit from this new technology and at what cost? Like the saying goes, “We Can But Should We?” Quick Response (QR) codes are the new rage today, they are black-and-white square boxes with maze like lines that resemble a digital bacteria or some computer life form (Whaley, 2012). These two-dimensional codes have the ability to store 14 types of data, and when scanned will deliver the stored information to that person’s mobile device.