Telemetry: Patient Safety Analysis
Clinical Application Assignment
Telemetry is not considered a complex specialty as compared to some fields of nursing. Floor nursing as it’s commonly referred to deals with managing the care of several patients anywhere from 3-7 patients but most commonly 4-6. Patients on telemetry units vary is age greatly from 21 to 101. However is most often accustomed to an aging population approximately 60 and older. When the elderly come into the hospital there are several things that take a number one priority, safety. Hospitals nationally report fall rates among the elderly continue to remain steady or see an increase in numbers but rarely do fall rates decline in the ageing population. With most things in life when people are placed in new environments …show more content…
As operationally sound as the idea may be patient safety analyst Susan C. Wallace from the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority writes that using patient sitters to directly observe patients at a high risk for falls is a practice suggested as part of several evidence-based fall prevention guidelines. However, the clinical and cost-effectiveness of sitters have been questioned. Unfortunately, this is one of the exact reasons this program was cut from this local facility. It all comes back around to cost-effectiveness in relation to goals or outcomes achieved. The battle between costs and rewards is a delicate balance. Michelle Feil, a senior patient safety analyst weighs in on the subject reporting, sitters can be effective in reducing falls, and the savings can exceed the costs of the sitters themselves. The cost savings achieved in decreasing rates of falls with harm, both in terms of money saved and decreased severity of injury, might justify the costs associated with implementing and maintaining a sitter program. Feil’s analysis resulted in the cost savings achieved in decreasing rates of falls with harm, both in terms of money saved and decreased severity of injury, might justify the costs associated with implementing and maintaining a sitter program. Although the results can be spotty related to countless research on the topic of safety sitters. …show more content…
The objective data would prove this change as successful would be to re-instate the patient sitter program. From this they could compare the current data acquired from the point in which the program was terminated to data gathered in the following months to year when sitters are implemented again. This would be positive change to the facility and would also correlate to higher patient satisfaction scores hospital
Telemetry is not considered a complex specialty as compared to some fields of nursing. Floor nursing as it’s commonly referred to deals with managing the care of several patients anywhere from 3-7 patients but most commonly 4-6. Patients on telemetry units vary is age greatly from 21 to 101. However is most often accustomed to an aging population approximately 60 and older. When the elderly come into the hospital there are several things that take a number one priority, safety. Hospitals nationally report fall rates among the elderly continue to remain steady or see an increase in numbers but rarely do fall rates decline in the ageing population. With most things in life when people are placed in new environments …show more content…
As operationally sound as the idea may be patient safety analyst Susan C. Wallace from the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority writes that using patient sitters to directly observe patients at a high risk for falls is a practice suggested as part of several evidence-based fall prevention guidelines. However, the clinical and cost-effectiveness of sitters have been questioned. Unfortunately, this is one of the exact reasons this program was cut from this local facility. It all comes back around to cost-effectiveness in relation to goals or outcomes achieved. The battle between costs and rewards is a delicate balance. Michelle Feil, a senior patient safety analyst weighs in on the subject reporting, sitters can be effective in reducing falls, and the savings can exceed the costs of the sitters themselves. The cost savings achieved in decreasing rates of falls with harm, both in terms of money saved and decreased severity of injury, might justify the costs associated with implementing and maintaining a sitter program. Feil’s analysis resulted in the cost savings achieved in decreasing rates of falls with harm, both in terms of money saved and decreased severity of injury, might justify the costs associated with implementing and maintaining a sitter program. Although the results can be spotty related to countless research on the topic of safety sitters. …show more content…
The objective data would prove this change as successful would be to re-instate the patient sitter program. From this they could compare the current data acquired from the point in which the program was terminated to data gathered in the following months to year when sitters are implemented again. This would be positive change to the facility and would also correlate to higher patient satisfaction scores hospital