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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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    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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    BSN Nurses Create a Safer Patient Environment In recent years a movement has been emerging in more and more hospitals and health care facilities to hire nurses with BSN degrees. In addition‚ many health care employers are requiring‚ or at least urging‚ their current staff to earn higher degrees. This movement gained momentum following a study released by the Institute of Medicine in October 2010 recommending “increasing the number of baccalaureate-prepared nurses in the workforce to 80% and doubling

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    Ethical Dilemmas & Impact of Nurse-Patient Ratios I was an ICU nurse for 18 years and I decided to leave bedside nursing in 1999 when I found myself standing in the doorway between two patient’s rooms‚ which both had alarms going off. I was being forced to care for three critical patients that night. I left nursing because as I stood in that doorway I realized that in choosing which room I was going to enter‚ the patient in the other room might very well have died… (Massachusetts Nursing Association

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    Rounding: Improving Patient Care and Safety Purpose: * PATIENT SAFETY * Reducing preventable errors resulting in facility acquired illness/injury * Reducing increased healthcare costs related to errors due to inadequate shift change reports * Involving patients in their own care by allowing them to be involved in their own report during shift change * Reducing barriers to communication between patient‚ family‚ and staff Benefits: * PATIENT SAFETY * Allows nurse to visualize

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    no clear staffing method based of patient acuity for inpatient psychiatric units. More research needs to be conducted once staffing models are developed‚ but there is a clear need for mental health units to have their own staffing models based on patient acuity (Hanrahan‚ 2012; McKee‚ Harrison & Smith‚ 2006). Research has been conducted on several aspect of how inappropriate staffing levels have an impact on the rate of violence on units‚ the effects of the level of licensure on staffing and patients

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    The authors conducted focus groups to identify nurse-patient behaviours likely to be categorized as physically violent‚ explore thoughts and feelings in response to patient violence‚ and describe team responses to the incidents. The study found that nurses shared information about episodes of violence to colleagues through different communication methods‚ protected themselves and others‚ adopted non-therapeutic strategies when dealing with patients and felt emotional after a violent incident. One

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    Joint Commission- National Patient Safety Goals Kathy Linkous University of West Florida Joint Commission- National Patient Safety Goals The Joint Commission focuses on certain goals each year. For patient safety and positive outcomes‚ hospitals are required to follow certain standards. National Patient Safety Goals were established in 2002 to help identify areas of concern with patient safety. This group is made up by a panel of experts including nurses‚ doctors‚ pharmacists and many other

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    Planning a conference or class? * Benefit for Members Members have access to current topic * More... Letter to the Editor * Recently‚ I read the article‚ "Why Emotions Matter: Age‚ Agitation‚ and Burnout Among Registered Nurses"... Continue Reading... View all Letters... HomeANA PeriodicalsOJINColumnsEthicsInterstate Nursing Practice and Regulation Ethics: Interstate Nursing Practice and Regulation: Ethical Issues for the 21st Century Mary Cipriano

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    1. How does the nurse ensure airway safety? Upon discussing this question with my nurse‚ the first thing he mentioned he does to ensure airway safety is check that the marking on the airway tube is at the same number as it should be. For example‚ if the tube was a 26 at the patient’s mouth‚ he would make sure it is still at 26. By doing so‚ he is able to see weather or not the tube has gone down too far and might only be providing air to one lung or it might have came up too far in the airway and

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