MN507 Discussion Board: Implications Of Patient Safety Standards And Practices

MN507 Discussion Board: Implications Of Patient Safety Standards And Practices

Discussion Board: Minimum 250 words, APA Style, Time New Roman, Font 12,

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Discussion Topic 1: Policy Implications of Patient Safety Standards and Practices

Read the case study number one, Moving to a Common Core Interprofessional Patient Safety Curriculum on page 254 in Health Policy and Politics: A Nurse’s Guide, by Milstead. Why is it important that health professionals share a common understanding of patient safety standards and practices? What are the policy implications from accepting that “mistakes are normal and all human err”? How would you approach health care systems leaders or employers about changing employment policies related to punitive actions when errors occur?

1. All health professionals and administrators have a duty to prevent avoidable injury and harm to all patients who receive health care in the United States. “Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things—to help, or at leastp.254

2. to do no harm” (Hippocrates, Epidemics , Bk. 1, Sect. XI).p.254

3. Students of the health professions need to understand the science of safety and the translation of new discoveries for safer care delivery into practice. Patient harm secondary to errors and mishaps results from system problems and failures. Systems have both technical and human components. Understanding this interface necessitates work-ing together as health professionals to achieve systems improvement and reduce harm and injury. Current health professions education rarely delivers common core content about the science and applica-tion of safety principles.Creighton University presently offers one of the most comprehen-sive interdisciplinary patient safety courses in the country, entitled Interprofessional Education 410: Foundations in Patient Safety. The course has been offered since 2005 and has reached more than 500 students in training (Abbott, Fuji, Galt, & Paschal, 2012; Fuji, Paschal, Galt, & Abbott, 2010; Galt et al., 2006); however, not all students and faculty are being reached through this elective approach. Patient Safety Day was organized to reach all pre-health professions and health professions–related students on campus with a core exposure to the science of safety. The daylong event is built on the elective interprofessional core curriculum course and is offered once in each of the spring and fall semesters. The objective is to provide students and faculty with training in the science of safety simultaneous with an introduction to basic patient safety science principles in an interprofessional educational delivery framework. Content was designed to illustrate how safety impacts both the over-all healthcare system and the individual, and to apply lessons learned in a case-based interprofessional set of exercises. Three hundred fifty students participated in the first offeringp.255