Imagine that you are the administrator of a city hospital and you have been asked by your hospital’s legal counsel to prepare a presentation for your hospital’s medical team that discusses negligence in the healthcare environment.
Create a presentation consisting of at least 10 slides, not including your title slide and references slide, that covers the following issues:
Slide 1
Hospital safe environment
Slide 2
Workplace violence has become a public health problem. It includes not only physical assault but a range of disruptive behaviors such as intimidation and bullying.
Slide 3
It has been identified that noise as a potential risk factor related to medical and nursing errors.
Also latent conditions as conditions present in the system or environment contributes to the error made eg
- poor facility design
- poor patient visibility
- lack of standardization
- excessive patient movement
- inappropriate or complex process.
Slide 4
Five steps to improve patient safety
1) Remove stored equipment from public areas
Eg visitors can trip over cart wheel that is protruding into the walkway
Slide 5
2) Minimize hospital room clutter
Maintaining a clean and un- encumberes patient room is essential to keep the patient safe
Slide 6
3) Eliminate or organize area clutter
Nursing stations must be well managed so that everything that need to seen can be seen
Slide 7
4) Assure overall cleanliness of all areas
Hospitals that are perceived to be unclean has 10℅ higher rate of infection.
Slide 8
5) Minimize auditory clutter
Ambient noise in the hospital regardless of source, has been associated with everything from sleep deprivation to medication errors, from patient fall to breaches in confidentiality.
Slide 9
Elements of an effective violence management program
Mamangement committee and employee involvement
Worksite analysis
Hazard prevention and control
Safety and health training and
Record keeping and program evaluation.
Slide 10
Conclusion
This there are many reasons for unsafe environment like inadequate staffing and inappropriate patient nurse ratio, also various environmental factors as discussed above.
Slide 11
References
Faik, H.P.E.(2006) ."New deaigned hospital can enhance safety" Paper presentation at my health 2006
Emily Halu, "Preventing work place voilence, nurse perspective" May 22,2018.
United States Department of Labor, "Prevention of work place voilrnce"
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