Tag: Patient Safety
Patient safety is the prevention and avoidance of adverse circumstances or injuries coming from health care process. Accidents, errors are common events that can occur in the clinical area. Safety arises from the interaction from different parts of the system: it does not live in a person, department or device. Patient safety is a branch of health care quality.
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Impact of CLIA Waived Testing on Patient Safety and Clinical Laboratories
Nursing Essays
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...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Swiss Cheese Model to Assess Medical Errors and Patient Safety
Nursing Essays
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 ...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Regulation of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)
Nursing Essays
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...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Quality assurance of Patient Safety within the Health Care System
Nursing Essays
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...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
The Role of Risk Management in Patient Safety
Nursing Essays
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...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
