Threats to Patient Safety: The Role of Nursing
Threats to Patient Safety- hit the subjects listed at the bottom Patient safety is a primary concern for every health care worker. Safety concerns begin the moment a patient enters a health care facility to the point at which the patient is discharged. Yet there are many points where quality and safety can break down. Consider what Dr. Arthur mentioned in this week’s video presentation about health care professionals being the vectors and how many patients acquire additional illnesses during their time at a health facility. As discussed in this week's resources and media presentations, policies and reimbursement strategies are attempting to improve patient safety and the quality of care. To prepare for this Discussion, review the materials presented this week including the video presentation. Then, address the following: •Discuss one of the major threats to patient safety in hospital, home, or community settings. •Discuss the role of nursing in addressing the patient safety threat. Support your ideas or those of others with references from the professional nursing literature.
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Discuss one of the major threats to patient safety in hospital, home, or community settings.
One of the key problems that threaten the safety of the patients in the hospitals, at home and in the community settings is medical errors (Caldwell, 2010). Physicians and nurses are trained and in most of the cases are expected to provide the right health care services. However some of the time they fail and this result in harm to the patients. Under this category is the aspect of diagnostic errors. In most of the cases it is common to find that when a patient falls sick, the community and the family members that are assisting will have a preformed diagnosis of the illness (Ballard, 2003). The doctors and the nurses will also form a working diagnosis on the patient’s admission to the hospital. In the event that the patient is subjected to tre...