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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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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The Patient Affordable Care Act also known as the Obamacare was created on March 23‚ 2012. The Affordable Care Act is a health care law that aims to ensure that all Americans have access to quality‚ affordable healthcare by increasing access to health coverage for Americans and introducing new protections for people who already have health insurance this law will hopefully create the transformation within the health care system necessary to contain cost. The ACA law puts in place comprehensive health
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Patient self-determination is defined by the text as a law that requires healthcare organizations to inform patients of their rights as they pertain to their ability to determine the own healthcare. The Patient Self-Determination Act was drafted and enacted Congress in 1990. The law required healthcare institutions to provide information about advance healthcare directives to patients upon their admission to the healthcare facilities. The premise of the Patient Self-Determination Act was to inform
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Checkpoint: Patient Self-Determination Act The Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA) was legislated by Congress in 1990 as part of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA). Congress felt that individuals has the right to determine their final healthcare. In a Ambulatory Surgery facility setting‚ Medicare/Medicaid requires that each patient sign a HIPAA form‚ explaining their rights prior to the procedure being performed. The purpose of the PSDA would be to ensure that individuals are provided
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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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was the Occupational Safety and Health Act passed? Describe some of the provisions in this Act. The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 as the name implies‚ was passed in 1970 for employee safety reasons. The increasing number of workers being killed or injured as a result of their jobs‚ the impact it had on the economy at large‚ and the emotional and psychological trauma caused by these deaths (or injuries in some cases)‚ was the main reason for the passage of this Act. As a matter of fact
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(Green & Bowie‚ 2005‚p.10) In 1990‚ the Patient Self – Determination Act was implemented. This required consumers to be provided with informed consent‚ information about their right to make advance health care decisions (called advance directives)‚ and information about state laws that impact legal choices in making health care decisions. The Patient Self- Determination Act affects the delivery of healthcare in the sense you now have to allow the patient to make the choice on their advance directive
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Occupational Health and Safety Act Introduction • The Occupational Health and Safety Act provides us with the framework and the tools to achieve this goal.• Changes to the Act in 1990 and subsequent years continued the evolution of occupational health and safety legislation in Ontario. These improvements are based on our experiences. History • Occupational injuries and illnesses have been present throughout history: – Ancient Egypt: stonemasons with respiratory problems– Industrial Revolution:
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Checkpoint Patient Self-Determination Act In 1990‚ The Patient Self-Determination Act began. This Act would require that healthcare facilities inform patients about their right in case of an emergency situation. Also the patient would be informed about their rights to get advanced healthcare accommodations‚ and any related information that pertains to the legal impact and state laws regarding all healthcare decisions. Many of the healthcare facilities that exist today in America would
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