Essays on: Patient Safety

Title: Financial Pressures and Patient Safety Essay
Last modified: 15th Apr 2021
Introduction: The financial pressures on hospitals are continually increasing due to ever-changing reimbursement structures and a heightened focus on quality and value. ...

Title: Impact of Understaffing Nurses and Impacts on Patient Safety
Last modified: 25th Feb 2021
Introduction: Nurse staffing ratios and shorthanded staff in both day and night shifts effect not only nurse satisfaction but also has a big impact in patient experience, safety, and outcomes. Despite the amount of...

Title: Patient Safety in a Hospital - Research
Last modified: 11th Jan 2021
Introduction: Attitudes toward incident reporting. Attitudes and perceived barriers to incident reporting among tertiary level health professionals were researched by Malik, Alam, Mir, & Abbas (2010) ...

Title: Impact of Leadership Development in Healthcare
Last modified: 6th Jan 2021
Introduction: A crucial factor dominating health organisations in NSW, Australia and the world has been identified as patient safety and quality of care. Literature indicates that in order to achieve these objectives...

Title: Preventing Patient Safety Dilemma of Falls
Last modified: 27th Nov 2020
Introduction:  The Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality describes a fall as an unplanned descent to the floor that may or may not result in an injury to the patient ...

Title: Patient Safety in the ICU
Last modified: 18th Jun 2020
Introduction: PATIENT SAFETY Patient Safety in the ICU Safety in patient care has been of concern since the release of the Institute of Medicine Report in 1997 attributing human error to between 4 percent and 16 pe...

Title: Patient Safety and the ANA Code of Ethics
Last modified: 21st May 2020
Introduction: Abstract The American Nurses Association (ANA) Code of Ethics is a necessary and invaluable instrument that provides guidance through ethically charged situations. Conceivably the component that is mo...

Title: Should junior doctors be allowed to strike?
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Introduction: Question Should junior doctors be allowed to strike? Answer The question of whether junior doctors should be allowed to strike is a difficult one to answer as there are numerous arguments to take into...

Title: Nursing Essays - Nurse Patient Safety
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Introduction: Nurse Patient Safety The ICU Nurse and Patient Safety Abstract Nurses play a central role in direct patient care and safety surveillance at the point of care. This role suggests a need for conse...

Title: MANAGING PATIENT SAFETY REPORT ON THE INCIDENT OF BLOOD TRANSFUSION
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Introduction: Whilst the majority of the patients derive improved health as a consequence of health care systems, United Kingdom published data suggests that up to 1 in 6 patients receiving hospital care suffer har...

Title: Record Keeping on Patient Safety and Nursing Practice
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Introduction: The following essay is going to explore how record keeping impacts on patient safety and on nursing practice. The assignment will explore four of the sixteen principles the Nursing and Midwifery Counc...

Title: Identifying Risks and Errors to ensure Patient safety
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Introduction: Nurse is responsible to provide best care services to the patients with in its job role. Medical care should be without errors. However, there are various incidences of errors and negligence. Facts ha...

Title: Medication Administration Record System For Patient Safety Nursing Essay
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Introduction: The quality of patient care and safety is one of the most significant aspects of health care sector. Nursing and medical professionals face increased need of using information technology in day to da...

Title: Evaluating How To Ensure Patient Safety Nursing Essay
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Introduction: PATIENT SAFETY According to World Health Organisation (2010) Patient safety is the prevention and avoidance of adverse circumstances or injuries coming from health care process. Accidents, errors are ...

Title: Patient Safety The Importance of good record keeping
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Introduction: The purpose of this essay is to look at four of the principles from the Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC) document, principles of good record keeping. The NMC is the United Kingdom’s regulator fo...

Title: Effective Leadership And Patient Safety Culture
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Introduction: In 1999, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) reported that 44,000 to 98,000 Americans die each year as a consequence of medical error. These alarming figures published in the IOM article, To Err Is Human:...

Title: Patient Safety In Surgery
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Introduction: The purpose of this assignment is to conduct a literature review on a chosen topic which is a healthcare/nursing intervention related to a chosen clinical setting. A rationale will be given on why the...

Title: Patient Safety Issues In Mental Health Care
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Introduction: According to literature Safety, often defined as freedom from psychological and physical injury. The safety of patient is always important issue in health care settings both in medical and mental heal...

Title: Patient Safety And Quality Of Care
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Introduction: In both the United Stated and globally, patient safety and quality of care have been among the biggest concerns in healthcare. Several factors are associated with negative patient outcomes: heavy work...

Title: Patient Safety - The Impact of Communication in Nursing
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Introduction: Throughout this essay I am going to look at how team communication and collaboration are key factors in patient safety. I shall look at the factors that lead to communication failure. I am going to cr...

Title: Strategies for Patient Safety in Drug Administration
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Introduction: This essay will focus on the aspect of nurses providing quality care in relation to patient safety within the nursing context of safe practice of drug administration. It will further discuss the unde...

Title: Risk Management and Patient Safety in a Hospital
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Introduction: This essay will present an interaction that took place in practice that captured the multi-disciplinary team discussing a service user. This interaction shows the concept of risk management, patient ...

Title: Improving Communication for Patient Safety
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Introduction: Abstract: Communication is a very important aspect of medical training. Poor communication is the root cause for the majority of complaints against the National Health Service (NHS) (Pincock S. , 2004...

Title: Patient Safety in Healthcare
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Introduction: Introduction and background Patient safety has always been the heart of healthcare practice and nursing through the history of medicine. However, all through the world occasional non-deliberate accide...

Title: Effect of an ERAS protocol and laparoscopic surgery on patient safety
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Introduction: Evidence Based Practice and Applied Nursing Research Evidence Table A1.QuantitativeArticle:  Zhu, Y., Xiang, J., Liu, W., Cao, Q., & Zhou, W. (201...

Title: Impact of CLIA Waived Testing on Patient Safety and Clinical Laboratories
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Introduction: CLIA Waived Testing and its Impact on Patient’s Safety and Clinical Laboratories Introduction  CLIA waived tests are simple tests that don’t need complicated processin...

Title: Swiss Cheese Model to Assess Medical Errors and Patient Safety
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Introduction: Patient safety and risk management are major aspects of healthcare that should be intertwined in any healthcare organisation (Fisher and Scott 2013). Patient safety is where the patient does not ...

Title: Regulation of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Introduction: Using Osteopathy as an example, describe and critically evaluate the ways in which the organisation and regulation of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) in the UK provides safeguards for us...

Title: Quality assurance of Patient Safety within the Health Care System
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Introduction: Introduction Quality assurance (QA) is ‘a program for the systematic monitoring and evaluation of the various aspects of a project, service, or facility to ensure that standards of qua...

Title: The Role of Risk Management in Patient Safety
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Introduction: What is Risk Management? Risk management is defined as the process of planning and controlling the activities of a corporation in order to minimize the effects of risks of an organization’s cap...