This in turn exposes not only patients, but also nurses to a significant amount of noise and alarms, ultimately leading to the clinical problem called alarm fatigue. As defined by the Joint Commission, alarm fatigue is known as the desensitization of medical staff as a result of sensory overload. This overload ultimately results in a delay of an alarm being answered, and sometimes someone completely missing the alarm altogether (The Joint Commission, 2015). Alarm fatigue has been recognized as a contributing
Also incorrect medical coding linkage could lead to incorrect medical diagnoses being put into the patients’ medical record and could potentially cause the patient to be uninsurable should they lose their health insurance coverage and need to find a new insurance company. Some diagnosis could possibly be the reason for a person being denied insurance coverage with some
The factors explained above impact people’s “mistaken believes about the nature of pain and disability, resistance to seek treatment, and unwillingness to comply with treatment procedures”. In my opinion, the authors covered a good range of factors that may influence human’s pain perception and pain management. The authors pointed out the gap existed in today’s healthcare system for chronic and recurrent pain, as well as the reason of why
Management and certain workers should acquire education on drug seeking behavior among patients and workers (Harldorsson 2007). Clinicians need to be taught about the regulations concerning control use of substances and the ethical rules and regulations that follow them. It is essential for doctors to understand their moral duty to their patients and to their employers. Cases concerning ethical violation tend to destroy the reputation of the employers (hospitals), ruining the name of the hospital. It is the work of the health practitioner to acquire knowledge on how to help a patient who gets control drugs from online pharmacies.
Assess the effects on those using the service of three different discriminatory practices in health and social care settings. Setting: Elderly Care Home Infringement on rights Infringement on rights is when the basic human rights are taken away from people, causing discriminatory practice whereby they will almost certainly not be receiving a good quality of care. Dependant on what rights are being taken away can vary the physical development, an example being that if the service user was to lose out on their right not to be treated inhuman or degrading way. There are many ways in which this right can be infringed on, such as if they have been attacked physically or psychologically in any way, which can then cause a knock on effect, especially during later adulthood, causing their bodies to become weaker. Due to this stage in life their bodies are already at a higher risk of harm and if this right was to be broken it may speed up this physical developmental norm.
Wrong information can lead to serious outcomes. For example, an out-dated address of a patient, can lead to any communications sent to the patient ending up in the hands of a wrong or dangerous person, which can have disastrous effects on the patients’ health wellbeing and also my organisation. The information that I use needs to be checked for accuracy because inaccurate information can lead to serious outcomes. Information can relate to anything with regards to my organisation. When it comes to patients, it can be their address, telephone number or next of kin details, when it comes to employees, it can be their appraisals, salaries, again their address and telephone numbers, and for the business, it can be the business’s finances, profits, employee details, and various other information.
Three aspects of burnout are emotional exhaustion, negative, cynical attitudes and feelings about one’s clients and the tendency to evaluate oneself negatively with regards to one’s work with clients. Consequences of burnout can have serious consequences to staff, patients and the healthcare institutions involved. The studies conducted led to the development of the Maslach Burnnout Inventory
Distractions are a threat to patient safety and are particularly detrimental to the performance of complex tasks that require higher levels of cognitive processing. Even minor distractions can impair performance and have a negative cascading affect that can result in major events such as wrong site surgery (Feil, 2014). Literature Review An analysis of events by the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Reporting System reported 304 events occurring in the OR in which distraction and, or interruptions were indicated as contributing factors for compromised patient safety. The majority of these events were reported as errors related to procedures. Within this event type, surgery or
With this being the case, antipsychotic medications often have side effects that need to be monitored regularly by the health professionals (Young et al, 2011). Compliance is often a challenge with patients either because of the unmanageable side effects they experience or through limited insight. It is a role of the health professionals involved in the care to closely monitor this behaviour, as the effectiveness of the treatment may be affected (Young et al, 2011). Keller, Drexler &Lichtenberg (2009) discuss the benefits of treating paranoid schizophrenia with atypical antipsychotic medication clozapine and Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT). However both forms of treatment are linked with harsh side effects.
When discrimination occurs it can have a very adverse effect on the people who are subjected to it. There are many different types of discriminatory practice in a health and social care setting, they can be obvious (overt), subtle or sometimes unintentional. This task will explain three types of discriminatory practice and the effects that each practice has on those who are subjected to them. The first type of discriminatory practice that I have chosen is prejudice. Prejudice is usually found when staff members judge those who are in their care inappropriately because of case notes of the person or from information other members of staff have provided them with.