Mulloy, D. F., & Hughes, R. G. (2008). Patient safety & quality: an evidence-based handbook for nurses. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Retrieved from http://www.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK2678/…
Ransom, E. R., Joshi, M. S., Nash, D. B., & Ransom, S. B. (Eds.). (2008). The healthcare quality…
Quality Oversight in Health Care Organizations. Quality of care and patient safety has become a…
The Patient Safety Act and Rule establish a voluntary system for Patient Safety Organizations (PSOs) to analyze data they receive from health care providers regarding medical errors and other patient safety events to improve patient safety and the provision of quality health care. To encourage provider reporting, the Patient Safety Act and Rule include Federal privilege and confidentiality protections for patient safety work product (PSWP). Information submitted to, and developed by, these PSOs is protected as PSWP.…
Hughes, R. (2008). Patient safety and quality: An evidence-based handbook for nurses. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services.…
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO). (2009). National Patient Safety Goals. Retrieved April 9, 2012, from http://www.firstassist.com/forms/9.%20Misc%20Form-JCAHO%202009%20National%20Patient%20Safety%20Goal.pdf…
Imagine how overwhelming, frustrating and exhausting this is for a patient. This is where the nurse must be the patient advocate and a liaison within the interdisciplinary team. The nurse is with the patient longer than any other specialty and she is the liaison between the patient and all other specialties. The…
Hughes, Ronda G. (2008, Apr.). Patient Safety and Quality: An evidence-based handbook for nurses. Retrieved October 14, 2011, from the NCBI Bookshelf. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK2682/…
Mistakes and errors caused by medical providers happen in the healthcare field, resulting in punitive actions against the provider. As cited by Geffken-Eddy (2011) studies by the Institute of Medicine have shown that punishment will only lead to more medical errors or providers not reporting their wrong doings unless the risk of being caught is great. A new way to implement safer practices is to introduce a concept called “Just Culture” to a workplace. Just Culture consists of a work environment which healthcare providers are encouraged to provide essential safety-related information and report mistakes of their own or others (Geffken-Eddy, 2011). Having a Just Culture allows for open communication among healthcare workers to admit to their mistakes and using those mistakes as stepping stones to learn different means to prevent the error from occurring again.…
Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University Medical Center. (2005). Patient Safety - Quality Improvement. Retrieved March 2, 2010, from Duke University Medical Center: http://patientsafetyed.duhs.duke.edu/module_a/introduction/stakeholders.html…
Patients can be harmed from health care, resulting in permanent injury, increased lengths of stay in hospital and even death. Over the past 15 years, adverse events occur not because people working in medical professions intentionally hurt patients, but rather due to the complexity of health-care systems, where treatment and care depend on many factors, in addition to the competence of health-care providers. When so many and varied types of health-care providers, such as dentists, dieticians, doctors, midwives, nurses, surgeons, pharmacists, social workers, and others are involved, it can be difficult to ensure safe care, unless the system is designed to facilitate the delivery of quality and safe services. Patient Safety is defined as the reduction of risk of unnecessary harm associated with health care to an acceptable minimum (1).…
Clarke, S. (2003). Patient safety series, part 2 of 2: Balancing staffing and safety. Nursing…
About what constitutes harm, someone may say that hurting someone’s feelings or insulting someone’s sensibility. Harm can be also defined as hurting someone by being a bad example. Clearly there are limitations to this principle. Mill believed that an individual could harm him/herself as long as he/she does not cause harm to anyone else. The controversy comes in here because a person can harm himself or herself, which can affect other people connected to the individual. If a person does something, which harms only him/her, someone might see that and does the same thing and end up causing harm to him or her. So the theory is limited and flawed. The example you pointed that Jack pokes himself in the eye on purpose and damages his vision. Jill sees Jack do that, so she pokes herself in the eye and damages her own vision. I will say yes that jack’s behavior has affect Jill harm herself. According to his Self-regarding actions, he pointed, “No person is an entirely isolated being.” Hence, it is impossible that Jack does that harms himself will not also harm Jill. Even Mill accepts that harming oneself can cause harm to others and even, in a small way, regarding society as a whole group. What is more, although Jill wouldn’t copy jack that pokes himself in eyes and damages his vision, Jill is still harmed by Jack mentally. Back to the example you give to me, if Jill wouldn’t see that Jack poke in himself in eyes, she may never think about this behavior. Hence, no matter she copy jack’s behavior or not, she is still harmed by Jack mentally.…
Seago JA. Chapter 39 Nurse staffing, models of care delivery, and interventions. Making health care safer: a critical analysis of patient safety practices. In: Shojania KG, Duncan BW, McDonald KM, et al., editors. Evidence Report/Technology Assessment No 43 Pub No01-E058. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2002. pp. 427–33.…
What is an organization without a vision? The vision objective puts the organizations values and goals into simplified terms every member of the team can understand and share. The same holds true for our own personal goals and aspirations. We should develop our own personal vision statements to ensure we are staying current in the growing changes of nursing and healthcare technology/techniques, to educate and lead in the most efficient means possible. My vision revolves around the mission statement, “To provide the highest level of care, one patient at a time, with meticulous attention to quality of care; serving with compassion and a dedication to improving health awareness and literacy among patients”. While simple and direct, I feel that this statement best summarizes my leadership vision for the future of nursing and institutional healthcare.…