Assignment 3.03 Safe Surgery

HAWRA'A ALSHAKHS 215027049 \ SN: 71

Assignment 3.03 Safe surgery saves life

Teamwork has an important role in minimizing the errors. First, we need to define what a teamwork is. It means that people will try to cooperate, using their individual skills and providing constructive feedback, despite any personal conflict between individuals. Second, there are many points in which teamwork has a role in reducing errors. Teamwork enhances learning process. When people work together on a team that will maximize shared knowledge in the workplace and helps them to learn new skills they can use for the rest of their career. What you have learned from your individual experiences is entirely different from your coworkers. Also team members enjoy working

The treatment could be a medication, surgical procedure or some kind of therapy has an undesirable secondary effect which occurs in addition to the desired therapeutic effect. The causes of adverse effects vary for each patient, and depend largely on their general health, the state of their disease, age, weight, and gender. There are 3 main causes of adverse effects in procedural care. They are poor infection control, inadequate patient's management and failure of health care provider to communicate effectively before, during and after procedure. In poor infection control, a study found that surgical wound infections consider as the second largest category of adverse events. However, administration of prophylactic antibiotics has reduced the incidence of postoperative infections. In the second cause which is inadequate patient's management, the operating room and environment involve intensely complex activities involving a range of health professionals and should always include the patient when conscious. This may explain why more adverse events are associated with surgical departments than with other hospital departments. Also there are other factors contribute in a lot of adverse events in surgical care like inadequate implementation of protocols, poor leadership; poor teamwork, conflict between different departments/groups within the organization, inadequate training and preparation of staff, inadequate resources, lack of evidence based practice, poor work culture, overwork and lack of a system for managing performance. In the third cause, Miscommunication is one of the biggest problems in the operating environment. Miscommunication has been responsible for the wrong patients having surgery, patients having operations on the wrong side or site, and the wrong procedure being