Medical Instrument Case Study

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) published a report in 2000 that estimated there were around 100,000 deaths each year in American hospitals from medical errors. IOM results were mostly based on errors of comission. In ICUs, the errors of omission are much larger as compared to the errors of commission. The number of patients dying becomes even higher if these errors are included. The follow-up report by IOM in 2001, provided a direction towards the need for making the basic changes in the health care delivery.

The information gathered helped the manager to identify the special-cause variation which was driven by (1) the number of medially complex, time-consuming patients each day; (2) the training needs of a new staff member; and (3) the overscheduling of new patients. With this information, the manager was able to work with both the clinical and administrative personnel to address these concerns and reduce both the variability and the average time. The second quality initiative is the focus on the customer. Every effort must be taken to “satisfy the patient/customer by meeting their expectation”.

In reality, doctors are human beings. Doctors may commit a mistake. Doctors may be negligent .The support staff may be careless. Two acts of negligence may give rise to much bigger problem.

Deficiencies in communication between health professionals and recommendations for improvement are major findings in many health care quality improvement investigations with communication errors identified as the root cause of 70% of sentinel events in health care setting. Research also indicates that inadequate communication between health professionals and with health care consumers and/or family members is the primary issue in the majority of medication errors, adverse reactions, and near

Most common medical errors are errors in orders, however misdiagnosis is an error in oversight, misunderstanding or failure of clinician to notice clinical data and disease pattern. It is increasingly difficult to track these errors currently as most of these cases are only found through negligence and malpractice litigation as well as autopsy cases (Sternberg, 2015). It is imperative that clinicians research and study this to change outcomes that continue to adversely affect patients and providers. Patient safety goals have focused every year on safety and adherence to best practices.

Recognizing, acknowledging, and understanding medication safety is important when administering medications. Understanding which medications are high-risk ones, being familiar with the medications being given, remembering the five most important rights when administering medications, communicating clearly, developing checking habits, and reporting the medication errors will lead to safe outcomes for the residents. However, errors do occur from a lack of experience, rushing, distractions, fatigue, doing too many things at once, not double checking, poor communication, and lack of team work. It is not only the staff that commit errors, but also the work environment that contributes to the medication error. Two examples are poor reporting systems

The given reason being nurses are not likely to report the errors and only when clinincal consequences arise are they discovered. The focus of the Dalmolin, Rotta, & Goldim, (2013) study was to evalualte the medication errors for the types, seriousness, and medication groups involved. The study was conducted at the Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre(HCPA) between January 2010 and December 2011. The study was conducted using a retrospective and cross-sectional study process. The study used data on medication errors, that was submitted to the Group for Safe Use of Medications.

Communication is an important factor in determining patient outcomes, patient experiences, and healthcare costs, both positively and negatively. In fact, communication breakdown accounts for two thirds of sentinel events, the most serious of errors reported to the Joint Commission, making it the leading cause of medical errors (Starmer et al., 2014). The Institute of Medicine (1999) conservatively estimates that between 44,000 and 98,000 patients die each year from medical errors. More recent estimates predicted this number to be upwards of 400,000 deaths annually, making medical errors the third leading cause of death in the United States (Makary & Daniel, 2016). Miscommunication and handoff errors are the primary point these errors occur.

This resulted in 7% of the respondents reporting involvement in a medication error during that past year. Good interpersonal skills and effective communication ensures that concerns regarding patient safety can be brought up without seemingly challenging the knowledge of the other healthcare

For instance, wrong medication, wrong surgical site, administering contaminated drugs to patient or sexual abuse of a patient within a health care facility. In most instances, these events are preventable but upon their occurrence, they are costly, both financially and reputation-wise to the affected healthcare institutions and the patient. Therefore, never events can be prevented by finding out the source of error or the near misses and developing mechanisms to prevent these events from occurring. Working through the four steps of the data, information, knowledge, wisdom continuum Moen and

Technology is a massive part of our society today and it is continuously changing. It can help solve issues and increase sufficiency. One safety issue that technology can help improve is medication administration errors that occur in hospitals and other health care settings. A medication administration error is defined as any preventable event that could possibly result in unsuitable medication use or harm to the patient while the health care professional is in control of the medication. The most common type of medical error is medication errors.

Patient safety experts have demonstrated that “patient safety increases when teamwork and collaboration skills are taught and empowered; when teamwork and collaboration are not present, medical errors will result” (Creasia & Friberg, 201, p. 348). As a nurse, it is imperative to collaborate with other interdisciplinary members in health care and also strive to research and implement evidence-based practices. Evidence-based practice is necessary to “ensure the highest quality of cost-effective care and the best patient outcomes” (Fineout-Overholt, 2011, para. 16). With a collaborative and innovative attitude on safe health care practices, an increase in patient safety and effectiveness of care will

Table 4.4 The Reliability of the Instrument Constructs Items Corrected Item-total Correlation Alpha if Item Deleted Cronbach's Alpha Value of the Constructs Parents' Attitude toward FB A1 .890 .920 .942 A2 .775 .940 A3 .853 .927 A4 .848 .928 A5 .855

For some jobs you would need teamwork skills to get your tasks done in time. In my placement at Vellore Woods Density most of the time we need to use teamwork skills because we are handling with people’s teeth and need to communicate with each other on what we need such as equipment’s. Patients are sometimes hard to keep them calm when they are all worked up or simply really nervous. We would try to reassure them, and tell them things would work out well. I learned a trick from my co-workers that if you keep calm, the patients will keep calm as well.

Hospitals frequently enhance their quality of care by improving their best practices. Bedside reporting is a best practice that has numerous benefits including a decrease in the potential for mistakes, increased patient involvement and understanding of their care, increased teamwork among nurses, and an increased accountability of nurses (AHRQ, 2013). A review of the literature was run and showed several studies and literature reviews on bedside reporting. The majority of these articles were conducted on adult medical-surgical