Patient safety Flashcards
What is patient safety?
- mistakes
- communication
- legal
- risks
- medical
- negligence
3 points of patient safety:
- avoidance of unintended or unexpected harm
- minimise patient safety incidents and drive improvements in safety and quali
- Patients should be treated in a safe environment and protected from avoidable harm.
Never events
events that should not happen
Errors in pharmacy
-medication similarities;
in name/ packaging/ put on wrong shelf
Experts estimate that as many as ________ people die in any given year from medical errors that occur in hospitals.
98,000
Report, To Err is Human building a safer health system
- Prevalence of medical errors
- Human errors
- Systemic causes
- Accountability and reporting
- Development of the 6. National Patient safety Agency
- Continuous improvement
- Patient awareness
What is essential for patient safety?
- teamwork
- safety culture
- reporting and investigation
- communication
- clinical human factors & systems training
- safety risk & quality
human errors are responsible for ____% of errors
60-70%
What are the 6 competencies framework?
1) collaboration and the commitment to advocate for change.
2) capabilities and competencies
3) Effective communication
4) Collect and monitor performance data
5) Optimising the human and environmental factors
6) Open, honest and empathetic disclosure
Patient safety incident reporting:
- record
- learn
- share
- act
- review
Cytotoxic drug
cell killing - very harmful
Test Your Knowledge – Examples of Short Answer Questions (SAQs)
To Err Is Human. Summarise the main points (7 points) discussed in this report.
2- What are the six safety competencies included in the ‘safety competencies framework’?
3- List the five steps of the ‘patient safety incident reporting’.
