Why Is Patient Safety Important?

Patient safety is to minimize and prevent the risk of harm ensuring effectiveness and exceptional quality in patient’s care. The importance of patient safety to professional nursing is to give the best possible care, preventing errors, having continuous education and appropriate training, receiving and giving adequate communication, and utilizing ways to prevent fall and injury of the patient in order to have a safe outcome.

Prevent errors

Reporting mistakes and near-misses are fundamental to preventing more errors. In order to prevent errors in the healthcare settings nurses should avoid miscommunication, lack of proper training and continuous education, lack of cooperation between healthcare providers. Improving delivery of care requires
Communication between coworkers and patients is present daily at our healthcare environment. Absence of complete, precise communication at spots of variation is a big issue influencing the quality and safety of patient care in the present healthcare settings. Unproductive communication among healthcare professionals contributes to patient injure. In almost all healthcare setting there is a conflict in communication between the teamwork, and it can put patient safety in risk. In order to avoid this between the teamwork it is important to make a powerful professional partnership. A professional partnership is a relationship based on mutual respect to achieve a common mission while each participant lives out his or her life’s purpose (Hood, 2014). An effective communication results in a positive outcome improving quality and safety of the patient in all healthcare setting.
Healthcare professionals who take care of patients directly or not must be correctly prepared and have particular instruction and abilities in order to enhance patient safety. Higher education levels also enable professional nurses to lead changes to improve the quality of health care delivery in complex health organizations collaboratively with other professional health team members (Hood, 2014). Constant instruction in regards to patient safety not just helps healthcare professionals by preventing mistakes,
Falls can be prevented using some strategies including visiting the doctor often to evaluate the risk of fall, doing exercises that make the legs stronger improving balance and muscle strength, having the eyes checked at least once a year to always keep the glasses updated, and making home safer reducing environmental hazards. Environmental hazards such as throw rugs and no handrails at stairs or in the bathroom should be avoided. In order of make elderly people safety, they must use those strategies to prevent risk of fall and make home safer such as discard objects they could stumble and put handrails on both sides of stairs and