Patient Safety—Case Study #2 Sierra Billman‚ Morgan Burkholder‚ & Crystal Montgomery Indiana University School of Nursing Protecting Our Patients Patient safety is an area in which every hospital strives to excel. Patient safety is when an error is prone‚ but staff prevents it before it happens. There are hundreds of hospitals in the United States that want to improve patient safety. One case of this would be The Veterans Health Administration implementing changes to decrease the likelihood of
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Discuss three patient safety issues that are present in the scenario. 1) Sara signed off medications on the MAR but she did not actually witness the patient taking the prescribed medications. 2) Sara left the medications unattended at the bedside. This is a careless practice. She should have carried them back to the nurse’s station and reattempted to administer the meds after the patient finished bathing. 3) Unexpected change in the patient’s vital signs. The scenario reports there has been
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The purpose of the National Patient Safety Goals (NPSG) is to improve patient safety via the application of evidence based practice in areas of medical care that have been identified as high risk for resulting in patient harm (Mascioli & Carrico‚ 2016). The organization is extremely focused on meeting the NPSGs‚ however‚ there has not been a formal assessment of the organization’s culture of safety. The hospital focuses on the individual goals‚ collects data‚ and‚ based on the statistics‚ puts into
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Integrating Patient Safety in the Nursing Curriculum Ana Maria Y. Jimenez‚ RN‚ MSN‚ MAP‚ PGCE A. Introduction On the subject of Patient Safety‚ the National Institute of Medicine (2005) returns to the fundamentals of Medicine‚ reiterating what had been said over a millennia ago when Hippocrates saw the risk for injuries that arise from the good-willed actions of healers. Greek healers in the 4th Century‚ drafted the Hippocratic Oath and pledged to "prescribe regimens for the good of my patients according
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are a record number of more accidents in medicine that you may realize. After a 1999 report by the Institute of Medicine noted that the number of medical-error deaths equaled the death toll from three jumbo jet crashes. This eventually caused a patient safety movement to take off that included: bringing new rules and procedures designed to minimize mistakes—and the injuries and deaths they caused. One of the most common in current times has been wrong-site surgeries. This occurs when an operation
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RUNNING HEAD: ORGANIZATIONAL EMR CHANGE Organizational EMR Change HCS 587 Organizational EMR Change A small medical office is expanding organizationally but not in the space department. Some changes need to be made to employ space more efficiently in the most cost-effective route. Switching medical records electronically from paper is a route that improves the function of the facility and also resolves the space issue. Paper records are common in most health care facilities‚ but because
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2.05 Part One (Flame Test): Create and complete a data table for Part One of the lab. It should include the name of the element (or unknown) examined and the color of the observed flame Known Elements Color Barium Green Calcium Red Sodium Yellow Rubidium Violet/Blue Potassium Blue Lithium Magenta Identify each unknown from Part
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Raul Melendez RV EMR Innovations case 1. Succinctly describe the real product that EMR is attempting to market * Eric Reynolds and Mary Reynolds are a young couple that formed their love over RV’s (recreational vehicles) into a profitable business. In 1995‚ the Reynolds opened an RV repair business out of their home and by 1999 the business was large enough to allow them to open their own shop in Amana‚ Iowa. On 2002‚ Eric Reynolds came up with innovative products that helped or repaired
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Stanford EMR Case Question: What three strategies would you propose to the board to minimize the risk of project failure with respect to the Epic system implementation? Roll out back office parts of EPIC first in order to allow the organization to familiarize itself with the applications in EPIC while at the same time developing internal capabilities around training of staff for implementing the software. Implementing back office first would provide an early win‚ demonstrate success‚ and
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of obtaining and maintaining extensive documentation of patient information. Medical staff‚ physicians and healthcare practitioners are legally responsible to maintain a comprehensive‚ efficient as well as effective way to collect‚ maintain and archive patient information. Traditionally‚ this process of information collection and maintenance was accomplished manually resulting in an endless paper trail of information. Everything from patient encounters to informational charts to billing was executed
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