Case Study Pancuronium

handle it. This an example as it falls under failure to fire incompetent, unlicensed, or unsafe employees. One way to change healthcare to reduce risk of liability is to educate healthcare professionals on paying close attention to small detail. Despite the packaging of the medicine having a similar appearance, the labelling of the medicines was different. Nurses as well as the doctors should be trained to pay very close attention to small differences, not only was there failure to notice small detailing there was also failure to properly store the medication in a safe appropriate place. If the drug Pancuronium were to only be handled and administered by anesthesiologists in the operating room, then it should not have been in the
nurses’ area.
Another way to improve health care settings and reduce liability risks is to heavily enforce the performance of patient follow-ups after a medical procedure or treatment. One of the biggest misconceptions in medicine right now, which also happens to be one of the costliest, is that the patient care ends when they are discharged (Norman, 2015). By doing so this will greatly diminish readmittance rates as well as lower health care costs. Some patients may not have been fully educated by staff prior to going home, and may not even know what to look for as far as post-discharge complications. Due to this reasoning, readmission rates begin to rise as patients are being admitted to the emergency room because