National Patient Safety Goals

Principles for safe medication administration: • All medications must be administered according to a physician’s orders. • The medication orders must be clear, legible and not open. • The same person should select, prepare, administer and record the administration. • Doses must be prepared for only one patient at a time, immediately before the intended use • Medications should be prepared for immediate administration to a single patient and not retained for later use due to the risks of contamination, potential instability, potential mix-up with other medications and to maintain security of the medication • All medications must be stored in patient care areas in the same container as received from pharmacy. • All RNs and ENs without notation must successfully complete the Medication Assessment Paper prior to administering medications.

The National Care Standards lay out what all individuals should expect when using care services. They exist to ensure that service users are treated with respect and that human rights are maintained. The new National Care Standards were passed by the government in June 2017 however they will be officially put into practice from April 2018. A Care Standard sets out information on what a good care service should be like and what it should provide for the service user. The National Care Standards include dignity, privacy, choice, safety, realising potential and equality and diversity.

The Impact of Informatics on Healthcare Technology has impacted health care in ways that will allow the practicing professional to deliver the best care that is relevant to patients today. As new technology continues to emerge, and as healthcare professionals (HCP) continue to utilize the current research available, it will become safer to manage and apply advanced health care for patients today that was not available previously. Also, centralizing patient data will allow the (HCP) to see an extensive view of the patient profile that will help to deliver quality, safe and cost-effective care. Technology has an impact on the safe delivery of care.

Running head: Error disclosure and apology Fundamentals in Patient Safety and Care Instructor: Heba Ahmad Student Name: Rajanjit Kaur (C0681077) LHC 1023: Fundamentals in Patient Safety for Health Professionals Lambton College, Toronto July 4,2016 Introduction Galt and Paschal, (2011) explains that Medical error is a condition when the use of a wrong plan to fulfill an aim. It may be a system error, individual errors or sentinel event. If patients experience harm, whether from the progression of their medical condition or from events related to their health care delivery, it may be major or minor but patient and family members have the right to need to know and also practitioner responsibility to confront their mistake with other team members and the family of the patient.

The Safe Patient Handling Act (A.1370/S.2470) The bill was introduced by a Chair of the Subcommittee on Workplace Safety, Assemblyman Rory Lancman, and Senator George Maziarz, the sponsor the Safe Patient Handling Act (A.1370/S.2470). This bill would (1) create a safe patient handling taskforce, (2) direct the New York State Department of Health to establish a safe patient handling policy, and (3) require each covered healthcare facility to write and execute a plan that coincides with that policy. The Subcommittee on Workplace Safety considers passing the bill a top priority for the 2011-2012 legislative sessions. DEADLINES:

There are many patient safety concerns in today’s healthcare system. One that is not on the forefront, but is still a prevalent and concerning issue, is lack of infection control in outpatient or ambulatory settings. Since there has been a large transition of care from the hospital setting to an ambulatory setting, there is a necessity to improve infection control secondary to patient notifications and outbreaks within the past years1. Ambulatory settings include all outpatient clinics. An example is an ambulatory surgical center ASC), which increased in numbers by 50% from 2001 to 20082.

You are perfectly right! No LPN, RN or CNA will willingly want to practice out of their scope of practice. At a certain point it becomes a dilemma and we don't know what to do or not do. We either want to please the facility, the Doctor and the manager or we are forced to do whatever we can to safe the patient's life. But at what point do we stop and think.

OR/PACU Observation Experience Med Surg vs PACU/OR Environment Medical Surgical nursing and PACU/OR nursing are two very different environments with the same goal of taking care of their patients with the utmost care. Med surgical nursing is defined as the diagnosis and treatment of human responses of individuals and groups to actual or potential health problems. The goal of Med surgical nursing is to assist the the individual or group in restoring and maintaining optimal health, bringing the body back to homeostasis ( Minority Nurse). Med surgical nurses work in a variety of settings such as the hospital, the home and clinics. Med surgical nurses have a variety of skills, they educate their patients , caregivers and other health professionals.

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Overview According to the Food and Drug Administration, medication error is a failure in the treatment process that occurs very often and posts a threat to patients. It is clearly frequent and is often avoidable but puts risk to patients. As stated in a report of the Institute of Medicine, there is a 1.5 million cases of occurrence of medication error in the United States every year (Westbrook, J.I., Woods, A., Rob, M.I., Dunsmuir, W.T., Day, R.O. (2010). ). This high incidence of medication error should be our primary focus because medication administration has a very big role and is an important part of the nurse’s role.