Question

The institute of Medicine (IOM) report provides insight regarding medical errors. Justify why the recommendations are necessary to nursing practice and how they can improve client care.

Answer 1

A medical error is a preventable adverse effect of care ("iatrogenesis"), whether or not it is evident or harmful to the patient. This might include an inaccurate or incomplete diagnosis or treatment of a disease, injury, syndrome, behavior, infection, or other ailment.

Types of Medical Errors

• Adverse drug reactions.
• Medication errors.
• Laboratory errors.
• Surgical errors.
• Patient-controlled analgesia.
• Falls.
• Healthcare-associated infections.

Here are the committee's recommendations,

1. Build common ground around scope of practice and other issues in policy and practice.
2. Continue pathways toward increasing the percentage of nurses with a baccalaureate degree
3. Create and fund transition-to-practice residency programs.
4. Promote nurses' pursuit of doctoral degrees.
5. Promote nurses' interprofessional and lifelong learning
6. Make diversity in the nursing workforce a priority.
7. Expand efforts and opportunities for interprofessional collaboration and leadership development for nurses

8. Promote the involvement of nurses in the redesign of care delivery and payment systems.

9. Communicate with a wider and more diverse audience to gain broad support for campaign objectives.

10. Improve workforce data collection.

by following all these IOM recommendations we can provide quality care that is safe, effective, patient centered, timely, efficient, and equitable. Thus safety is the foundation upon which all other aspects of quality care are built.Also this will improve client satisfaction,short the duration of hospitality and faster the discharge.Overall productivity of the hospital is increased.Improve knowledge and enhances nurses skill.