Bar Code Scanning and Patient Safety Phyllis Harman University of Southern Indiana Bar Code Scanning and Patient Safety The following paper explores eight published articles that address the issue of bar code scanning for medication administration and patient safety. Online research was conducted to locate and review articles which are included in review of literature‚ and to acquire accurate information addressing the issues discussed. The understanding of Bar Code Scanning for Medication
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statistic is that as many as one in four elderly patients discharged from hospital will experience an adverse health event within thirty days of hospital discharge. These events may have serious outcomes‚ which may include a need for care in an emergency department‚ readmission to hospital‚ admission to a nursing
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Patient Safety Initiatives in the Hospital Setting Introduction Patient safety is described by the US Institute of Medicine as “the freedom from accidental injury due to medical care or from medical error” (Mansour‚ 2012). With that being said‚ patient safety has long been a major issue for hospitals. In the past many patients have been injured during hospital stays‚ some being injured severely with death being the result. With the growing trend of lawsuits‚ hospitals were becoming
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The nurse-patient relationship has always been considered to be an essential aspect of the nursing profession‚ which has an impact on the wellbeing of both sides. The nurse-patient relationship has a unique purpose and is extremely complex and often difficult to understand from an outside perspective. The role played by the nurse is pivotal in patient care‚ as establishing a good relationship can be vital in helping the patient make clinical and psychological process. In the discussion that follows
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Improving Patient Throughput In the Emergency Department Introduction St. Vincent’s Medical Center‚ a 501 bed facility located in Jacksonville‚ Florida‚ provides general medical and surgical care to the North Florida Region. St. Vincent’s admits over 26‚000 patients annually. The average occupancy rate is approximately 84% with the Emergency Department (ED) peeking at 100% for approximately 4-12 hours daily. The hospital is struggling with availability of bed space. This shortage of available
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Nurses knowledge on initial assessment of critically ill patients Nurses knowledge is playing an important role on assess and identify critically ill patient. Ongoing specific clinically education and skills training enable nurses to recognize and respond to critically ill patient. The level of education was identified as an important predictor in ward nurses’ ability to quickly recognize patient deterioration (Massey at al.‚ 2017). The study done in Greece on the factors influencing nurse’s decisions
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The Author will describe the nurses role and discuss individualised patient care based around legal and ethical frameworks that guide and govern nurses in their roles as healthcare professionals. A five stage process to nursing care is one framework use to deliver this care and consists of assessment‚ diagnosis‚ care planning‚ implementation and evaluation and is an on-going‚ continuous cycle that only ends when goals are achieved and homeostasis is restored‚ or reasonable expectations of health
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and friends to visit the patient Encourage to maintain communication by phone with others e.g. family and friends Ensure to establish rapport (therapeutic communication) one –on-one Ensure to encourage the patient to participate in the activities with co-patient if appropriate Ensure to encourage the patient to participate if appropriate in the support group activities To promote patient understanding and realising that she is not alone. To promote patient being actively busy and
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Survey of Potential Strengths and Weaknesses Financial The Patient Flow Center is a non-revenue producing department. That being said‚ one of the main purposes of this department is that of transferring in patients from outside hospitals. Once the patient has arrived‚ revenue can then be incurred. Human Resource Management Both licensed clinical and non-clinical staff members primarily staff the VUMC Adult Patient Flow Center. The backgrounds of those licensed staff member’s ranges from hospital
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SELF REFLECTION The patient centred practice (PCP) was the topic of discussion in the second week of the CIEHP program. During the class session‚ we gained a brief insight of the concept of PCP as well as patient’s right. In the class‚ we discussed that the goal of the Canadian healthcare is not only the provision of collaborative and informed healthcare to patients‚ but it also provides a holistic approach to improving the safety and quality of patient’s life. During my clinical experience‚ I
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