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).
In the hospital ward scenario where there was a patient suffering from dementia, my first recommendation was that cleaners should be trained regularly on how to clean dirty cups properly and should be ensured the consequences for the patients if this was not done properly. I recommended this because if cleaners are trained regularly and reminded on how to clean cutlery properly, and were ensured that this should be done as regular as possible. This recommendation could be referred to the Health and Safety at Work Act (1974) because this act includes safe training for the employees, in this case the cleaners. It includes high standards of hygiene which fits into this recommendation because the training involves ensuring how to clean dirty cups properly. (www.legislations.gov.uk, Accessed 04/10/13).
Therefore it is the primary position of this paper, that to reduce these errors in the healthcare industry an organizational behavior approach will need to be taken. Organizational behavior is defined as the understanding, predicting and management of human behavior. If human behavior can be managed correctly in the healthcare industry then error rates can be substantially reduced resulting in the desired lowering effect of errors in the healthcare system. Perhaps the most successful tool in organizational behavior at this time for altering behaviors the organizational behavior modification model (a.k.a. O.B.
2) Is the problem significant to healthcare and is the significance described? Yes, the problem is sure significant to the healthcare. This study is important to the healthcare because it address one of our long held beliefs about the prevention of pressure ulcers. We are taught that turning every two hours reduces the risk of pressure ulcers. This study was able to show that turning every four hours
This type of hernia, in which the bulge is constricted so that the blood supply to the area is cut off, constitutes a medical emergency that requires immediate surgery. Objectives GENERAL To obtain a broad understanding and learning about Strangulated Hernia through completing the necessary action and data for this case study. SPECIFIC Objectives To increase knowledge about Strangulated Hernia. To learn the probable cause, sign and symptoms of Strangulated Hernia. To improve knowledge about how to do the ideal nursing intervention for clients with Strangulated Hernia.
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.
ABSTRACT This report will analyze the implementation of Lean Six Sigma in the Healthcare System( even though the case study refers to Lean Thinking, Lean and Six Sigma are gathered, for example to reduce waste and make a process more directly and fluently will bring the reduction of errors and vice-versa). There it will be analyze, a case study related to an institute familiarized with Lean Six Sigma, how it was helpful to improve customer service, reducing the time waiting to processes, by focusing in joining three departments in a hospital on behalf to manage better the overcrowding of patients. The techniques used were PDSA and a flow Map. Afterwards, there will be explained how this methodology could be put in practice in an unfamiliar healthcare service with Lean Six Sigma such as Hospital in Chile, which faces several challenges related to its Radiology service and how to manage the flow of patients and coordinate it with Emergency department and maximize the resources on behalf to reduce as much as possible time (the most valuable element in Health assistance) and secondly the customer experience. The main purpose it is to proof that in the contemporary business field, Lean Six Sigma it is a very useful tool to be implemented in the Service field, compared what many managers still think that is just applied in the manufacturing field.
In addition to improving quality, evidence also supports that EMRs save physicians time and reduce costs for ambulatory practices (O’Neill, 2007). As more organizations begin to utilize EMRs, questions regarding its impact on the efficiency of nursing arise. Do managers perceive that electronic medical records save their nurses time? Justification The futurists identified several emerging trends about the state of health in the twentyfirst century (National Center for Healthcare Leadership, 2005). The United States will become part of a global system focusing on wellness and preventive care worldwide; providing patient care via “virtual” centers of excellence around the world.
Enhancing patient safety also contributes to the overall success of the healthcare facility (Potter & Perry, 2013, p.370). Patient safety is a sensitive topic that I feel that must be discussed and addressed very often. The purpose of this paper is providing awareness to patient safety, and how medical errors and lack of safety can compensate patient safety. Review of Literature Patient safety is a growing concern
Identifying and learning from errors by developing a nationwide public mandatory reporting system and by encouraging health care organizations and practitioners to develop and participate in voluntary reporting systems is another strategy for medical error improvement. The third strategy for medical error improvement is raising performance standards and expectations for improvements in safety through the actions of oversight organizations, professional groups, and group purchasers of healthcare. The last strategy for medical errors improvement is implementing safety systems in healthcare organizations to ensure safe practices at the delivery level. To help avoid drug errors, the National Council on Patient Information and Education (NCPIE) encourages us to think about the "3 R’s" — Risks, Respect, and Responsibility— for safe medicine use: Recognize that all medicines have risks as well as benefits. Respect the power and value of medicines when properly used.