NR706 WEEK 5 PATIENT SAFETY AND A CULTURE SAFETY Answered

NR706 WEEK 5 PATIENT SAFETY AND A CULTURE SAFETY. A paradigm shift is occurring across the United States from volume-based to value-based care. Reflect upon your organizational culture to address the following: Analyze and assess the culture of your healthcare setting as it relates to patient safety. Examine one opportunity to improve patient safety outcomes. Include in your strategy current technology being used to support safety and explain the importance of interprofessional collaboration to help promote a safer environment.

Week 5 Patient Safety and a Culture of Safety

Discussion

Purpose

The purpose of this discussion is for you to explore your healthcare setting culture and the shifting paradigm from volume-based care to value-based care within the context of patient safety.

Instructions

A paradigm shift is occurring across the United States from volume-based to value-based care. Reflect upon your organizational culture to address the following:

1. Analyze and assess the culture of your healthcare setting as it relates to patient safety.
2. Examine one opportunity to improve patient safety outcomes. Include in your strategy current technology being used to support safety and explain the importance of interprofessional collaboration to help promote a safer environment.

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Course Outcomes

This discussion enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:

1. Assess the impact of informatics and information technology on organizational systems, change, and improvement. (PO 6)
2. Evaluate the types of healthcare information systems, knowledge-based systems, and patient care technology and the impact on patient safety, quality of care, and outcome measurement. (PO 7)

; NR706 WEEK 5 PATIENT SAFETY AND A CULTURE SAFETY Patient Safety and a Culture of Safety

Patient safety is crucial to positive health outcomes among patients. Therefore, safety culture is essential to providing quality health care services. The high increase in adverse events related to human error is largely attributed to cultural issues and a lack of safety culture in the healthcare settings (Khater et al., 2015). Traditionally, unsafe procedures, medical equipment, and human errors underline the adverse events in a healthcare setting. It is agreeable that everyone err and erring is part of being human when it comes to human error. In this regard, healthcare providers have adopted various ways to improve the safety of healthcare processes.

The overarching safety cultures in my healthcare settings include a shared responsibility in managing healthcare processes, safety training and education, and worker immunization policies. There is a common belief that healthcare processes carry high risks, and every due diligence should be taken to prevent adverse outcomes (Khoshakhlagh et al., 2019). Mitigation measures taken at the individual level include a hygiene culture before and after every clinical activity, collaboration, and adherence to clinical guidelines. Moreover, the organization’s leadership is committed to minimizing clinical errors by organizing periodical training and education on patient safety.

Technological advancements have provided new opportunities to improve patient safety outcomes in healthcare settings. While these technological interventions come with economic needs, my workplace leadership has prioritized information technology in improving patient safety. For instance, the organization installed Epic electronic health records (EHR0 and OnPage incident reporting systems to help in accurate patient documentation and timely reporting of clinical incidences.  EHRs improve patient safety by improving patient documentation and medication errors (Tubaishat, 2019), while incident reporting systems help identify safety risks and provide interventions to mitigate the risks and reduce the impact on healthcare (Carlfjord et al., 2018). However, the organization’s leadership should promote interprofessional collaboration to help foster a culture of safety. Inter-professional collaboration is associated with improved patient safety (Dinius et al., 2020). Inter-professional collaboration facilitates effective communication of patient issues and sharing of knowledge and evidence-based intervention decisions, leading to better patient health outcomes.

References

Dinius, J., Philipp, R., Ernstmann, N., Heier, L., Göritz, A. S., Pfisterer-Heise, S., … & Körner, M. (2020). Inter-professional teamwork and its association with patient safety in German hospitals—A cross sectional study. PloS one, 15(5), e0233766. https://doi.org/10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0233766 

Khater, W. A., Akhu‐Zaheya, L. M., Al‐Mahasneh, S. I., & Khater, R. (2015). Nurses’ perceptions of patient safety culture in J Jordanian hospitals. International Nursing Review, 62(1), 82-91. https://doi.org/10.1111/inr.12155

Khoshakhlagh, A. H., Khatooni, E., Akbarzadeh, I., Yazdanirad, S., & Sheidaei, A. (2019). Analysis of affecting factors on patient safety culture in public and private hospitals in Iran. BMC Health Services Research, 19(1), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-019-4863-x

S., Öhrn, A., & Gunnarsson, A. (2018). Experiences from ten years of incident reporting in health care: a qualitative study among department managers and coordinators. BMC health services research, 18(1), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-018-2876-5

Tubaishat, A. (2019). The effect of electronic health records on patient safety: A qualitative exploratory study. Informatics for Health and Social Care, 44(1), 79-91. https://doi.org/10.1080/17538157.2017.1398753