998 Search Results for Medical Errors
Manage identification planning
This chapter discusses the management and planning of change process within the clinical setting. Change management plan is very critical to the success of any healthcare unit. Change may be threatening to organizatio Continue Reading...
Both of these devices "allow handwritten data entry including sketching with 'electronic ink' and handwriting recognition that converts scribble into typewritten text." (Wales and Zabrek, 2003)
Full integration with hospital servers of these device Continue Reading...
This is exactly where the problem usually starts.
There are a number of reports published which revealed that even the physicians are not so keen into attending more seminars and trainings to learn the new systems (Ball, 1992). Physicians are expec Continue Reading...
Patient Identifiers
The Importance of Patient Identifiers
Adverse events as a consequence of medical treatment are now recognized to be a significant source of morbidity and mortality around the world (World Health Organization [WHO], 2005). Somewh Continue Reading...
Another problem is that of "infections, such as nosocomial and post-surgical wound infections' (Medical errors, 2009, AHRQ). Careful hand-washing to prevent infections is a required part of most hospital procedures. Nurses should take additional pr Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples
1. The Impact of Computerized Physician Order Entry Systems on Healthcare Efficiency:
This essay would explore how CPOE systems have transformed the administrative and clinical workflow within healthc Continue Reading...
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1. The Impact of Communication Breakdown in Healthcare: Lessons from the Josie King Story
This essay would explore the critical importance of effective communication among healthcare providers as highligh Continue Reading...
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1. The Role of Healthcare Professionals in Ensuring Patient Safety:
This essay will explore the duties and responsibilities of healthcare professionals, including doctors, nurses, and technicians, in maintaining a safe environmen Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples
1. The Impact of Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE) on Patient Safety:
This essay will explore how the adoption of CPOE systems has influenced patient safety within healthcare organizations. It wil Continue Reading...
Health Policy Letter
The health policy being proposed
Medicines are primarily used to avert chronic ailments, infectious viruses and alleviate pain. If used incorrectly and without necessary instructions, medicines can instigate harmful outcomes in Continue Reading...
Nursing Role in Patient Safety
The nursing workforce is the biggest workforce in the health care industry. The nursing staff in hospitals is primarily tasked with patient surveillance in both ambulatory settings and care facilities (seldom termed as Continue Reading...
Clinical Documentation Integrity:
In the past few years, the healthcare system has experienced constant battle surges between internal and external customers of clinical information to transform medical data into meaningful and beneficial informatio Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples
1. The Impact of Communication Breakdown in Patient Handoffs:
Explore the consequences of poor communication during patient handoff on patient safety, the continuity of care, and potential legal implicat Continue Reading...
Open Versus Closed Systems Perspectives: Healthcare Processes
According to Zakus & Bhattacharyya (2007), one of the great paradoxes of modern healthcare is despite the “availability of many cures, treatments, and preventive measures” Continue Reading...
Malpractice in Advanced Nursing Practice
A CLOSER LOOK
Legal/Ethical Principles
When nurses pursued independent practice outside hospitals, the law supported their bid to breach traditional roles (Kjervik & Brous, 2013). This phenomenon was de Continue Reading...
They added newer constructs to a PSC model developed earlier by Gershon and his colleagues (2000), which unveiled the relationship of safety and security aspects and linked it with work performance. They found that when hospital staff used the Gersh Continue Reading...
Clinical Application Paper
Medication errors are a serious public health problem and they pose a serious threat to patient safety. Medication errors are costly from an economic, human, and social viewpoint since all patients are potentially vulnerabl Continue Reading...
Introduction
Although senior management and public policy are also integral to the creation and maintenance of a culture of safety in healthcare organizations, nursing leadership is the most critical component in promoting desired patient outcomes. T Continue Reading...
A1. Advantages and Disadvantages of a System
All health information systems (HIS) come with great advantages and some disadvantages that must be taken in account to keep patients safe. A HIS is a system that captures, retains information, and helps m Continue Reading...
CPOE primary use to manage cost and quality in the physician and pharmacy interaction?
An electronic process that enables providers of health care to manage the results of orders entered in to a computer electronically is known as Computer Provider Continue Reading...
72). This initiative would also relate to Initiative No. 6 discussed further below.
Potential Benefits. This approach could even benefit the hospital's Human Resources Service. For example, in their essay, "Determining the Size of the Temporary Wor Continue Reading...
Health Systems Administration - Improving Patient Safety
Medical errors are responsible for the deaths of an estimated 48,000-98,000 patients each year. Such errors are estimated to cost more than $5 million per year in a large teaching hospital, an Continue Reading...
1). This is a problem that needs to be addressed by adding more training to the budget. The problem is, most hospitals' budgets are already spread too thin. Therefore, hospital administrators need to work harder to find sources to help fund their ac Continue Reading...
Ineffective Communication Between Shifts in Acute Care Settings
Significant
A recent statistics of the adverse effects arisen from ineffective communication between shifts in acute care setting range from 2.6% to 7.6%, however, Okoniewska, et al. ( Continue Reading...
Alarm Fatigue
Theories in nursing generally center on the relationship of four concepts -- nursing, environment, person and health. These concepts are interrelated and impact one another in diverse ways, often seen in issues of nursing when problems Continue Reading...
King Khalid University Hospital implemented a new system called The Electronic System for integrated Health Information or E-SIHI. The results from the data for clinical documentation before the implementation of E-SIHI revealed the most documentatio Continue Reading...
Charles, K., Coustasse, A., & Willis, K. (2014). Does CPOE Increase Patient Safety by Reducing Medical Errors? Global Education Journal, 2014(1), 1-14.
The purpose of the research project was to determine if adoption of a CPOE system would be an Continue Reading...
The idea with this part of the strategy is to be able to form some kind of a partnership with these individuals. This will help to push for a transformation inside the organization. As, these people will help to provide everyone with: a reason for a Continue Reading...
Nursing Handoff Communication Research
Nursing handoffs are important components in the modern health care setting given their role in transfer of the responsibility and authority of care from one practitioner to another during shifts. Generally, nu Continue Reading...
Organizational Responsibilityand Current Healthcare Issues
Organizational Responsibility and Current Health Care Issues
Case Representation
Michel Boileau, chief clinical officer for St. Charles Health System said that a hospital in Bend Oregon ad Continue Reading...
Nurse-Patient Ratio on Care Quality
Nurse Patient Ratio
The Impact of Nurse to Patient Ratio on Healthcare Quality
The Impact of Nurse to Patient Ratio on Healthcare Quality
It would be hard to understate the importance of a high nurse to patien Continue Reading...
Computerized Hospital Management Systems
The paper is about the benefits and costs of a computerized hospital management system from a nurse's perspective. The author is placed in the position of a nurse of a small 100 bed-community hospital who is Continue Reading...
Nurse Communication
Communication is one of the most important aspects of nursing, as the case study of the student and the instructor indicates. The student nurse failed to communicate to the instructor the patient's abnormal oxygen saturation read Continue Reading...
Health Care Teams and Collaboration
Delivery system of a health system depends on numerous interfaces and multiple practitioners. There are different health care practitioners in a health care institution depending on their field of practice and the Continue Reading...
Norton v. Argonaut Insurance Company, there was a staffing shortage on a pediatric ward of Baton Rouge General Hospital. An administrative nurse was filling in for the regular pediatric nurse, and carried out the physician's order which read, "Give 3 Continue Reading...
As the increased costs that they are paying, will more than likely mean that they cannot afford to receive routine physicals and checkups. When you begin to reduce the number of visits, the odds increase that various conditions and ailments may be d Continue Reading...
The decade-old system that specifies least standards for staffing in nursing homes need to be restructured, the report says. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services must call for nursing homes to have at least one RN within the facility dur Continue Reading...
Healthcare Infrastructure
JCAHO:
The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations -JCAHO is among the leading health-care benchmarks setting and accrediting bodies in the world today. To provide for continuous improvement to the sa Continue Reading...