Patient Safety

A hospital must ensure safety to run smoothly. To do so, one needs to acquire the appropriate guidelines for a hospital setting especially being that hospitals can endure tragic events. In a hospital setting it is important to provide safety for those within the facility. According to Naveh , Katz-Navon, & Stern (2006, Pg. 117) ,“ The critical problems of patient safety and medical treatment errors have received a great deal of attention lately in the United States.” On a financial scale according to Naveh , Katz-Navon, & Stern (2005, Pg. 948), “It is estimated that 44,000 to 98,000 patients in the United States die in a given year as a result of treatment errors in the healthcare system.” In order to reduce these issues, everyone must to

According to Zhan, Kelley, Yang, Keyes, Battles, Borotkanics, & Stryer (2005 , Pg. I-42), “Patient Safety is a critical component of quality of health care and is therefore an important chapter in the annual National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR).” As a hospital, it is relevant to keep a patient from any harm. According to the American Hospital Association (2006-2016), “Delivering the right care at the right time in the right setting is the core mission of hospitals across the country.” In order to do so, healthcare providers are trained to provide the appropriate care to a patient in need. They are also taught to follow the appropriate guidelines to ensure if something does go wrong, how to fix it, and prevent it from happening again. There are many guidelines put into place to follow in order to ensure patient safety. According to Mitchell (2008), “Many patient safety practices, such as use of simulators, bar coding, computerized physician order entry, and crew resource management, have been considered as possible strategies to avoid patient safety errors and improve health care processes”. These techniques help the doctors become aware of what the previous nurse on call has done with the patient. This keeps the patient from receiving inappropriate treatment. It gives them a system to refer back to in order to keep the patients safe. It is also important for the patients to have a

The most effective way to help reduce hazards within the workplace as well as injuries is by being comprehensive, implementing proactive safety, and having health management systems. According to Occupational Safety and Health Administration (2015, Pg.2), “To reduce employee harm and promote safety it is important to have a hospital with these six core elements: management leadership, employee participation, hazardous identification and assessment, hazard prevention and control, education and training, and system evaluation and improvement.” As an associate it is important to make sure you wear gloves when entering a patient’s room and discard them when leaving. This is important to make sure an individual does not touch the patient without being protected, and to ensure you do not spread germs to others. As a healthcare provider make sure that the patient does not cause any harm to any individual. It is important to make sure they do not bite, scratch, sneeze, or so forth on an associate. If this occurs, it is important for one to make note of it in a report. The associate also then needs to seek medical attention themselves to prevent any illness from reaching them. Doctors and nurses also need to wear the appropriate attire when entering a patient’s room. It is important for them to take care of themselves as