1. Patient safety remains the priority and is considered the most important challenge for the healthcare institution. With the increasing competitiveness of the market‚ and the complexity of the functions within the healthcare institution‚ it is very important to treat every patient as a unique human being who has a right to safe and quality care. Not only from a moral and ethical stance‚ but from a legal perspective as well. Patient safety is of the utmost importantance for healthcare institutions
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HS711 CLINICAL GOVERNANCE AND PATIENT SAFETY Student no 1106154 UP:12/04/2012-07:22:52 WM:12/04/2012-07:23:40 M:HS711-4-SP A:11a1 R:1106154 C:247CF1EADC9DA0F26065022703A21C45C87E8E62 The aim of this assignment is to explore the clinical governance in connection with the provision of patient safety when administering drugs‚ study will relate to an incident in the author workplace (See appendix 1). The author presents the outcomes of Care Quality Commission (CQC 2010) related to this situation
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medical care to patients that are sick or injured. They help in the recovery process by providing treatment specific to the patient’s condition. Each health care professional has a unique role that should be carried out to the highest standard to prevent unwanted mistakes that could prolong their healing or that could potentially harm and do damage to the patient. One of the most important moments that occur in a health care setting; when one must be focused and most concerned about patient safety; is
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associated with an extended length of hospitalization‚ sepsis‚ and mortality. In fact‚ nearly 60‚000 United States hospital patients are estimated to die each year from complications due to hospital-acquired pressure ulcers (Institute for clinical systems improvement [ICSI]‚ 2014). The Braden scale is the most preferred tool to assess the risk for pressure ulcer in the paraplegic patients. In this Preston Diaz Case scenario‚ I would restructure this entire case scenario incorporating more risk factors.
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What is patient safety? Patient safety is the absence of preventable harm to a patient during the process of health care (WHO 2004). These could include “errors”‚ “deviations “and “accidents “. Achieving patient safety involves the interaction of all the system components; never residing only in person‚ device‚ or department. It is the core of health care quality. According to the Joint Commission Patient Safety (2004 through 2011). Miscommunication was listed as one of the top contributing cause
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HEARING VOICES Hearing voices also called auditory hallucinations are usually manifested as “voices”‚ which can be experienced as external voices. People suffering psychotic symptoms regularly report sensory abnormalities; therefore hallucination can happen in different way such as auditory‚ olfactory‚ gustatory and tactile but the most common are auditory hallucinations which are reported by around 70% of sufferers. Hallucinations can be frightening as they may be unexpected or unwanted‚ but
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Concept Analysis: Patient Advocacy Yvette Thornton NURS 502 Grand Canyon University April 24‚ 2013 Concept Analysis: Patient AdvocacyIntroduction The concept of patient advocacy was the focus of the article entitled‚ “Developing a mid –range theory of patient advocacy through concept analysis” by Xiaoyan Bu and Mary Ann Jezewski published in the Journal of Advanced Nursing 2007. In an attempt to clarify the definition as well as the refine the concept of patient advocacy‚ the
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Pre-Diabetes Patient Registry Clinical Problem Pre-diabetes is a state in which blood glucose levels are higher than normal‚ but not within the range of being diagnosed with diabetes. The diagnosis of pre-diabetes has increased by 22 million Americans over the last two years totaling more than 79 million people in the United States (U.S.) over the age of 20 (American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists [AACE]‚ 2011). Unfortunately‚ the diagnosis of pre-diabetes is often missed and
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first year of my elementary school‚ my family started to experience serious financial difficulties as my father was cheated by his friends. Thus‚ we could only visit a physician assistant when we were sick. My heart was broken when my father was diagnosed with heart disease and we could not afford to visit a cardiologist. I felt sad and helpless when my siblings had severe typhoid fever and measles. I wept when my sick dogs died one after another because we did not have the money to pay for the veterinarian
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chronic disease that affects millions of people across the nation. According to LeMone and Burke (2008)‚ “Approximately 1.3 million new cases of DM are diagnosed each year in the United States” (pg 563). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that 23.6 million people in the United States have DM. Collectively 17.9 million people were diagnosed and 5.7 million people were undiagnosed with DM in the year 2007. Of all the documented cases 90-95 percent have type II DM and the remaining 5-10
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