Patient Safety And Quality In Nursing
This essentials discusses both the importance of patient safety and quality improvement in regards to advanced practicing nursing. Patient safety is defined by the Institute of Medicine as “the prevention of harm to patients” ("Patient safety and quality," 2008, p. 2)
In the health care world patient safety and the quality of patient care is extremely important. The master’s level education for nursing program will teach the advanced practicing nurse the tools needed to deal with an unsafe situation as it arises. Sometimes due to a person’s mistake, unpreparedness of a team or individual or failure to adhere to safety practices that have been put in place an error can happen in the healthcare world that put a patient’s safety at risk. It’s
In the health care world patient safety and the quality of patient care is extremely important. The master’s level education for nursing program will teach the advanced practicing nurse the tools needed to deal with an unsafe situation as it arises. Sometimes due to a person’s mistake, unpreparedness of a team or individual or failure to adhere to safety practices that have been put in place an error can happen in the healthcare world that put a patient’s safety at risk. It’s