that a student has given medication to a patient without supervision and without even knowing the name or action of the drug. I will go and check the patient first and then will enquire with the assigned registered nurse regarding the incidence. I will also assess patient`s vital signs and the lab values for patient safety. I will inform the incidence to the unit director and also the program director. I will instruct the student regarding the importance of safe medication administration and will
Patient safety is what everything in healthcare revolves around and it should be practiced in every step that a nurse takes at work to care for a patient to reach their individual outcomes without medical error. There are multiple ways that patient safety can be breached as evidenced by the thousands of deaths seen each year because of malpractice. Risks can be greatly minimized by correctly following standard procedures and using critical thinking throughout the nursing process. There are many ways
Introduction For this assignment I am doing now, I need to write a reflective article regarding an event or situation occurred when I was an employee in Major Operating Theatre (MOT) in Singapore General Hospital (SGH) to maintain the importance of sterility. I will be using the Gibbs cycle for my reflective article. It consists of 6 stages. They are Description, Feelings, Evaluation, Analysis, Conclusion and Action Plan, in which I believe it will enable me to improve on the flaws I had in the
Discuss the IOM competencies of patient-centered care and quality improvement and their accompanying KSA. Discuss how you apply these competencies in your practice The Institute of Medicine strives to ensure appropriate healthcare is delivered to patients by recommending quality improvement approaches. The Quality Chasm report provided by the Institute of Medicine strives to ensure quality improvement in the 21st century. The IOM identifies core competencies that are needed for healthcare providers
faces a variety of ethical dilemmas daily, and it is very important for a nurse to avoid these dilemmas at all costs to assure quality patient-centered care. The Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) Code of Ethics is a set of ethical values developed for registered nurses throughout Canada to help them understand what ethical values are needed when assisting patients with healthcare needs (CNA, 2017). The first ethical value listed in the CNA Code of Ethics is: Providing Safe, Compassionate, Competent
need for many different caregivers, which can compromise safety. Transition is a concept that can be described as a course of action and an outcome. This concept provides an understanding of the person, affliction, and their situational relationship in terms of their actual and possible effects on health. Thus, an understanding of transition and its outcome may assist in providing therapeutic nursing in an ambulatory setting. Such patients usually require many different treatments to support their
to assess, plan, and intervene to promote health, prevent disease, and help patients cope with illness. My two goals that I selected to observe during my shadowing experience were the methods followed to identify patients correctly and the use medicines in safe manner. Joint Commission’s 2014 National Patient Safety Goals The National Patient Safety Goals published by the Joint Commission are a key when it comes to patient
Healthcare professionals must ensure that the patients’ safety is of utmost priority when delivering care. Health care organizations are accredited by the Joint Commission which sets the standard guidelines for safe, quality care. As stated by Finkelman & Kenner (2016), “Accreditation is the process by which organizations are evaluated on their quality, based on established minimum standards.’ (p.396). “Joint Commission standards are the basis of an objective, evaluation process that can help health
are being used to address general patient satisfaction include the following: responding to call lights in a timely fashion; monitoring and providing better pain control; providing blankets and pillows as requested; rounding frequently to monitor patient status; and staying up to date on patient condition. In reviewing literature that addresses patient surveys and HCAHPS ratings, there are various theories and thoughts about what can be done to improve patient satisfaction and therefore HCAHPS
approach. The importance of questioning and reasoning appear as the normal way to be, without ignoring