Nightingale Community Hospital needs to repeat the steps taken to evaluate the tracer patient on a wider range of patients. They need to re-evaluate the care of at least 100 patients receiving general anesthesia and inpatient surgery within the last 60 days. This is an important step to take to make sure these mistakes were not made as an isolated incident and more as an over all hospital wide issue. Assuming these mistakes are typical to Nightingale Community Hospital, it should proceed with the following steps.…
References: Lewis, S. L., Dirksen, S. R., Heitkemper, M. M., Bucher, L., & Camera, I. M. (2011). Medical-Surgical Nursing: Assessment and Management of Clinical Problems (Eighth Edition). St. Louis, MO: Elsevier Mosby.…
Wrong-site surgery should not happen because safety measures should be in place and healthcare providers should adhere to those recommendations. In our case, what went wrong is a series of errors occurred along the way. First, the physician did not recheck the ultrasound before operating. Second, there were no good communications among the medical professionals, which shows a lack of coordination of patient care. Third, the medical professionals relied on too few documents (posting sheet and office notes) and the patient’s word to determine surgery…
When people in Georgia, and throughout the U.S., go in for a surgical procedure, they often put their trust in their surgeons and the medical staff assisting them. All too often, however, surgical errors occur. In fact, American Medical News reports that patients across the country experience surgical mistakes approximately 80 times per week. Frequently, such errors result in additional or worsened medical conditions for patients, as well as death.…
It is important for all team members to respect one another because if someone feels that he/she is belittled, that person may be less inclined to contribute to the group.…
Surgical site infections (SSI) are infections acquired after a patient undergoes an invasive surgical procedure. A surgical site infection is considered a hospital acquired infection, and in the United States is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality from hospital acquired infections (Korol, Johnston, Waser, Sifakis, Jafri, Lo & Kyaw 2013). These type of infections are highly devastating to a patient and cost the hospital a tremendous amount of money to treat. The purpose of this paper is to highlight how prevention of surgical site infections is necessary to provide excellent patient care, save costs to patient and hospital and how the use of proper technique and evidence based practices can decrease infection rates.…
According to Labeau et al. (2010), this article discussed the study of how knowledgeable nurses were in preventing post-surgical site infections. This article also included data from surveys conducted from the number of participants that completed the questionnaire. Labeau et al., 2010, research question asked, how can nurses be made aware on how to prevent or reduce surgical site infections?…
A surgical site infection(SSI) is defined when a microorganism settles into and contaminates sterile tissue within 30 days of the surgery. Per the CDC (2017) SSIs are responsible for 31% of healthcare-associated infections or nosocomial infections which is the highest leading cause. This can happen before during or after a patient has surgery. There are many physiological risks that are evaluated before a person has surgery to see if they are at a high risk for a surgical site infection. Some of these factors are age, undernourishment or malnourishment, diabetes mellitus, substance or alcohol abuse, immune suppression, long preoperative stay in the hospital, surgical wound classification and long operative procedure (Fuller, 2013). Patients,…
Surgical Site Infections (SSIs) are the most common nosocomial infection, accounting for 38 percent of nosocomial infections. It is estimated that SSIs develop in 2 to 5 percent of the more than 30 million patients undergoing surgical procedures each year. The environment plays a big role whether or not the patient would develop Surgical Site Infections. (Brunner & Suddarth, 2008).…
Surgical site infections steadily continue to increase. A computer exploration utilizing the cumulative index to nursing and allied health literature (CINAHL) database was essential to research subject matter of interest (Gray, Grove, & Sutherland, 2017), covering the key words wound care nursing topics as well as surgical site compilations. Additionally, evidence suggests that humanistic approach methods, accountability of nursing staff (Souza, Trindade, Mendonca, Silva, 2016), empowerment of patient care knowledge is vital towards patient care improvements, including, preventable infections (Ferreira et al., 2014). Particularly, amidst with prevention moreover proper treatment plan of surgical wounds provides considerable height in nursing…
Team communication is important for teams, and communication is needed if the team wants to be successful. For effective dynamics, a team must communicate because this process is crucial for a healthy and effective team. There are several frustrations, misunderstandings, and questions that are addressed with the proper team communication. Team communication has been defined as the information shared in such a way that it shares more than team communication; it shares the significance of a healthy and thriving team (Papa, 2013). Overall, the significance, the function, the effects, and the considerations of team communication should be understood among the team to understand how effective communication operates, and this also helps the team have effective communication.…
While many current health information technologies aid in reducing the human factors associated with many medical errors through the use of a redundant computer aided checks, there still exists a point in which providers at all levels must diligently adhere to organizational policies and procedures. In the presented case, evidence is presented which supports that an undesired outcome followed a surgical procedure. It is also presented that significant signs and symptoms along with a relevant patient complaint were made known to the night shift nurse. In determining whether or not her subsequent actions would rise to the level needed to prove malpractice, more information would be needed regarding the departments policies for reporting findings of this nature. In this case, the night shift nurse forwarded her findings on during her change-of-shift report to the day time charge nurse whose subsequent actions are not clearly stated. Nonetheless, the patient’s condition was able to rise to a level of one which resulted in long lasting negative effects following a follow-up surgical procedure which was performed by the physician. The fact that…
Surgical site infections are considered preventable. Because such infections are considered preventable, there are legal consequences directly connected to such a condition. In this paper, I will discuss what an SSI is and the reasons on why it is considered to be preventable. I will also discuss the role of disclosure and legal implications that are related to SSIs, accreditation expectations, and continuous quality monitoring as it relates to SSIs.…
Communication is also a key to a successful team. If a person is reluctant to communicate with the rest of the team, his of her ideas will not be expressed in a completed project. I feel that in small teams like we had, it helps a backward person become involved due to the small amount of people in the group. I believe that every person’s opinion is important in running a team,…
This module covers the knowledge, skills and attitudes required to identify role and responsibility as a member of a team.…