Why Is Patient Safety Important
Patient safety and care in a healthcare practice is a top concern that healthcare professionals such as doctors, nurses, administrators and staff aim to improve every day. Over the decades in the past, there has been incredible advancements in patient safety because of better technology. One such technology that has had a tremendous impact is the barcode scanner. Healthcare barcode solutions help to streamline the patient's admitting process, track medication and care of the patient throughout their entire stay by rightly identifying patients. Identifying patients correctly is the first step to preventing errors in nursing care.
There are two ways to identify the patient – their name and their date of birth. This is important when you are administering medications or doing a treatment or procedure. Patient identification is such a small step in nursing care that many nurses overlook it. Even in my clinical experience as a first year nursing student, I have seen nurses skipping the step of patient identification when …show more content…
The change I want to make is by doing it myself. Just because other people don’t always do it doesn’t mean I have to follow them and not do it as well. You have to start somewhere so might as well have it start with me.
What am I going to do? Try the change on a small scale. If I do it, others will maybe follow and do it too. Also since nursing students are in nursing school and everything we learn and do is strict to prepare us for the real world, patient identification is emphasized so we are trained to check our patients wristbands for their identity before we do or perform anything.
What am I going to study? Analyze the data and study the results. Data has even shown that patient identification has lowered errors especially in medication. I even have heard of stories from experienced nurses who made errors in the past that they were fortunately able to fix but could have been prevented if they had done patient
There are two ways to identify the patient – their name and their date of birth. This is important when you are administering medications or doing a treatment or procedure. Patient identification is such a small step in nursing care that many nurses overlook it. Even in my clinical experience as a first year nursing student, I have seen nurses skipping the step of patient identification when …show more content…
The change I want to make is by doing it myself. Just because other people don’t always do it doesn’t mean I have to follow them and not do it as well. You have to start somewhere so might as well have it start with me.
What am I going to do? Try the change on a small scale. If I do it, others will maybe follow and do it too. Also since nursing students are in nursing school and everything we learn and do is strict to prepare us for the real world, patient identification is emphasized so we are trained to check our patients wristbands for their identity before we do or perform anything.
What am I going to study? Analyze the data and study the results. Data has even shown that patient identification has lowered errors especially in medication. I even have heard of stories from experienced nurses who made errors in the past that they were fortunately able to fix but could have been prevented if they had done patient