Nursing 2230A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Patient Safety, Never Events, Nuclear Meltdown
9 Dec 2016
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Organizations with a positive safety preventive measure. (cid:499) culture are characterized by communications founded on mutual trust, by shared perceptions of the importance of safety, and by confidence in the efficacy of. Medical errors small (giving meds) or large (wrong surgery) 185, 000 adverse events (injury, disability, death) in hospitals in canada. Most common were: surgical, drug or fluid related incidences, self-reported medical errors in seven countries (2007, 4. 2 million adults believed a medical error occurred when they received health care services in the last 2 years with patient. Factors: extensive prescription drug use, chronic condition, lack of physician time. Patient safety incidents that result in serious harm or death, can be prevented by (cid:498)never events(cid:499) for hospital care: Never events do not imply blame; (cid:498)never(cid:499) is a call-to-action, not a demand or an. Don"t drink and drive, look before you cross the street. Safety can be a fluid environment responding to situations as they arise.
