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Nursing
The Joint Commission outlines Patient Safety Goals for a number of different areas of health care service. One of those areas is behavioral health. The 2012 National Patient Safety Goals include the accurate identification of clients using name and date of birth. This is suggested "to make sure that each client gets the correct medicine and treatment," (NPSG.01.01.01). This Patient Safety Goal is important for increasing patient safety and outcomes. A mistaken identity can mean giving the wrong treatment at the wrong time to the wrong patient, which could be disastrous or deadly. Similarly, misidentification can lead to medication errors that can also be deadly. This Patient Safety Goal is important from an administrative standpoint, because it suggests that nurse practitioner and all healthcare workers be aware of intake procedures.
In addition to NPSG 01.01.01, the Joint Commission Patient Safety Goals for Behavioral Health includes the use of medicines safely. This goal pertains to how information related to medication is recorded, how...
Also as part of this goal, which is NPSG 03.06.01, is comparing medications that the patient is currently taking to new medications that might be better. Healthcare workers should also have a plan for encouraging patients to take their medications when they are at home or in an out patient facility. Monitoring patients for their medications is part of the goal, and advising patients about telling their doctors what medications they are on is also part of the goal.
Both NPSF01.01.01 and NPSG03.06.01 can be achieved via the use of electronic medical records. There is ample evidence to suggest that electronic medical records can remedy patient errors and prevent errors. Miller & Sim (2004) state, "the electronic medical record (EMR) is an enabling technology that allows physician practices to pursue more powerful quality improvement programs than is possible with paper-based records," (p. 491). Electronic…
References
Behavioral Health Care National Patient Safety Goals: http://www.jointcommission.org/assets/1/6/2012_NPSG_BHC.pdf
Miller, R.H. & Sim, I. (2004). Physicians' use of electronic medical records: Barriers and solutions. Health Affairs 23(2): 116-126.
Steward, M. (2005). Electronic medical records. Journal of Legal Medicine 26(4): 491-506.
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 patient monitoring / evaluation / assessment). Patient surveillance is important for recognition of errors and evading adverse incidents. Most patient safety experts believe in cultivating an impartial system which acknowledges a system's and
Blueprint for Evaluating Patient Safety Competency in Nursing Students Ever since the report To Err is Human was published in 2000 by Kohn and colleagues, healthcare stakeholders in Western countries have intensified reform efforts designed to increase patient safety. The report revealed that nearly 100,000 patients were dying annually from medical errors in the 1990s, a statistic that caught the attention of legislators, healthcare policymakers, clinicians, patients, and the general
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