Patient Safety Issues

It is not necessarily all patient safety issues are attributed to failure to communicate between physicians, nurses, and other disciplines. For example, in the hospital where a nurse gives a wrong medication to a patient, this cannot be attributed to the failure in communication. This example is the nurse mistake for not checking the five rights of administering medication. However, a patient safety is compromised when staff failed to communicate properly with each other. Failure in communication can lead to patient safety issues like fall, CAUTI (catheter acquired infection), CLABSI (central infection), other hospital acquired infection and sentinel event.
One of the biggest issues that we’ve had to deal with our floor recently was patient falls. Most of those falls that happened because of inability to …show more content…
Bedside reports and daily rounds with physicians are part of our hospital in getting patients involved with their care. During bedside reports, techs or nurses are in the room to give a report in front of the patient. These reports have been valuable in catching up in giving wrong information about the patient. When a patient or family member for that matter is in the room, he or she can correct the erroneous information given. Likewise, daily rounds with physicians have been beneficial in communicating the needs of patients directly with the doctors. These physician rounds impacted the way care is delivered to our patients. This rounding is an inter-disciplinary approach, which includes a doctor, bedside nurse, charge nurse, and a social worker. Time spent during the round helps assess the immediate and long-term needs and goals for this patient. The rounding with the doctor also aids the patients understand their diagnosis. These rounds have also been effective to include families to be part of their