Question

I need help creating a course paper outline in APA format for my research paper which is on Medical Errors in Healthcare. This is a Master's APA paper with strict adherence to APA format. Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

Medical Errors are the errors which occur in the clinical setting due to malpractice and negligence of healthcare workers . Medical errors one of the healthcare problems which are above the average percentage and an immediate response towards this has to be taken . Medical errors are against ethical practices . If the healthcare workers practice ethically then there would not be any errors too . To prevent Medical errors one needs to work ethically following all policies and laws of the institution . Medical errors are caused by the following reasons :-

- shortage of staffs

- double duties

- malpractice

- negligence

- due to no proper training and clinical practice

- poor performance surveillance

- due to indirectly hidding the medical errors

Malpractice means not working according to the norms and standards of procedures . For example - giving IM injection incorrectly leading to sciatic nerve damage

Negligence means not taking responsibility and avoiding complications even being aware of that is happening. For example - even aware that patient might fall then also the staff does not raise the side rails .

To prevent these medical errors the healthcare system should take the following steps :-

- avoiding double duties

- recruitment of sufficient staffs

- Providing proper training session and having clinical practice

- reporting of medical errors

- following of institute rules and regulations and policies of working

- giving punishments in the form of cancellation of licence and charging fine