Category: Safety

  • Medication Safety: Deconstructing Clinical Workflow

    Pharmaceutical mistakes are risky due to the volume and sophistication of medication delivery, and these errors have a high financial and human cost on the American healthcare system. There are various steps involved in the distribution of medications. During the distribution stage of pharmaceutical distribution, one-third of all medication mistakes take place. Nurses must be…

  • Quality Safety and Outcome of Cleveland and Mayo Clinics

    Table of Contents Summary Quality Safety and Outcome of Mayo Clinic Quality Safety and Outcome of Cleveland Clinic Strengths and Weaknesses of Cleveland and Mayo Clinic Addressing Concerns of Both Mayo and Cleveland Clinic References Summary The federal organization for healthcare research and Quality (AHRQ) has described quality as doing the correct thing for the…

  • The Quality and Safety Education for Nurses Project

    Nurses knowledge, skills, and competencies determine the quality of their work and affect the well-being of patients. Nurses that acquired competencies identified in the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) project can manage and change practices to improve service standards (Sherwood, 2021). While all six established qualities are critical to safety, I would like…

  • Quality and Safety Education for Nurses: Conceptual Model

    It should be noted that QSEN (Quality and Safety Education for Nurses) is a project that has been initiated to promote essential security features into health care specialists preparation. Its aim in terms of undergraduate baccalaureate education is to expand the liability and autonomy of nurses through effective training and care delivery (QSEN Institute, 2017).…

  • The Roles of Nurses in Providing Nutrition Safety

    Abstract The research on the roles of nurses in providing nutrition safety has been proposed for submitting to the American Journal of Nursing. The paper at hand gives the description of the study, including a brief overview of the nursing issue, the purpose of the research, research question, methodology, implementation plan, outcomes of the experiments…

  • Lewis Blackman Case: Quality and Safety Education for Nurses

    After discovering that Lewis Blackman had pectus excavatum, his parents decided to have him undergo surgery at a university medical center. Lewis was prescribed painkillers and ketorolac to help ease the excruciating pain he was in the following surgery. On day three, Lewis started having severe stomach discomfort, which the nurses eventually identified as ileus…

  • Patient Care in Quality and Safety Education for Nurses

    Patient Center Care as a Competency of Quality and Safety Education for Nurses Although nurses are usually viewed as well-educated and high-skilled professionals, specific quality standards for their practice were reformulated in the context of the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) project in 2007. The focus was on defining particular knowledge, skills, and…

  • Supplements and Safety Documentary by Frontline

    The Principal Points The documentary on Supplements and Safety by Frontline, New York Times, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation presents an insightful description of the hidden dangers of supplements and vitamins. These organizations analyzed the marketing and control of supplements, as well as their serious health problems. According to the narrators, trading in vitamins and…

  • Supplements and Safety Documentary by Frontline

    The Principal Points The documentary on Supplements and Safety by Frontline, New York Times, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation presents an insightful description of the hidden dangers of supplements and vitamins. These organizations analyzed the marketing and control of supplements, as well as their serious health problems. According to the narrators, trading in vitamins and…

  • Medication Compliance and Safety Use

    Table of Contents Introduction Requirements Resource Availability Barriers to Adoption Monetary Issues Conclusion References Introduction Each patient-caretaker interaction remains an individualized experience, with the personality of all parties and their attitude towards health playing a particular part within the healthcare process. People may decide not to adhere to their medical practitioners advice for a variety…