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Question 1 - Identifies and explore a major healthcare safety concerns of your choosing
Major healthcare safety concern in NHS are as follows:
1. Errors in medication administration
The issue:
A patient may get the incorrect medication, the improper dose, or a drug combination
with a bad interaction.
1. These errors may be the result of human error or documentation errors.
2. More than 30,000 drug errors have been reported to the Food and Drug
Administration since 1992, although the real number is likely considerably higher
(American University Online, 2021).
Strategies to reducing the issue include the following:
Drug safety officers, who may be either pharmacists or physicians, can be
coordinators who manage and oversee complaints of drug errors inside the organisations
(American University Online, 2021).
2. Diagnostic errors: -
The issue:
1. An incorrect diagnosis is made by a health care professional.
2. A small mistake may delay healing or therapy in certain instances, while a more
severe blunder can have far-reaching consequences.
3. According to the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine, diagnostic mistakes are
responsible for 40,000 to 80,000 fatalities per year.
4. A further 10% of diagnoses are incorrect, according to the group.
Strategies to reducing the issue include the following:
Patient safety facilitators, often known as patient safety coordinators, not only observe
the bad events that occur but also do root cause analysis of occurrences. It also enables teams
to create action plans in order to help improve the system, and it does a risk analysis of
processes in order to reduce errors.
These healthcare providers usually work in various health care settings and typically
have at least five years of experience in acute care (American University Online, 2021).
3. Patient discharge errors: -
The issue:
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1. Following treatment for an acute illness, it's critical that patients know how to care for
themselves.
2. After acute treatment, a provider's "discharge practice" refers to the steps they take to
release the patient from the hospital or other healthcare facility.
3. It's no secret that the moment of discharge is generally seen as a period of great
vulnerability.
4. While too much information may be overwhelming, too little can put the patient's
health at risk.
Improve outcomes by standardizing discharge procedures