This document discusses patient safety and the role of nurses in ensuring patient safety. It makes three key points:
1) Patient safety is an essential part of nursing care according to regulatory bodies, but healthcare carries risks of adverse events due to the large number of available diagnoses, procedures, and medications. A patient has a much higher chance of experiencing a safety incident in the hospital than being killed in a plane crash.
2) Studies show that higher levels of registered nurses on staff are associated with fewer patient complications and lower mortality. Less experienced nurses and those with higher workloads also tend to make more medication errors and have more wound infections.
3) To improve safety, reports recommend increasing nurse staffing levels, making
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Patient Safety and Nursing Professional
1. Patient Safety and Nursing
Professionals
Bachchu Kailash Kaini
Clinical Governance Manager, Queen Elizabeth Hospital
2. Health Care: A Risky Business
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âIf you fly in a plane you have a 1 in 10 million
chance of being killed ...
If you go into hospital you have a 1 in 300 chance
and not from the illness you went in withâ
Sir Richard Branson, Vice President
of the Patientâs Association
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Number of Healthcare Diagnoses listed? > 68,000
Number of Healthcare Procedures available? > 6,000
Number of Healthcare Medications available? > 4,000
January 2010
3. Patient Safety
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âreduce the risk of adverse events related to
exposure to medical care across a range of
diagnoses or conditionsâ (Shojania et al, 2001)
An essential part of nursing care (NMC Code,
2008 and RCN Principles of Nursing Practice,
2010)
Everyoneâs business
4. Reference/Courtesy: Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses.
Hughes RG, editor. Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (US); 2008 Apr.
5. Nurses Responsibility
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Nursing care: different aspects of patient care â
e.g. avoiding medication errors and preventing
patient falls
Broader level: ability to coordinate and integrate
the multiple aspects of quality
ď˝ Collaboration
ď˝ Assessment
ď˝ Surveillance
ď˝ Monitoring
6. Evidences
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Greater percentage of registered nurses to other
nursing staff is associated with fewer
complications and lower mortality (Tourangeau et
al, 2006).
The lower the proportion of professional nursing
staff employed on a unit, the higher the number
of medication errors and wound infections. The
less experienced the nurse, the higher the
number of wound infections. (McGillis Hall et al,
2004).
9. Implications
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Mid Stafford Hospital Scandal: 'Nurse count' will
be introduced to improve patient safety
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Bosses at each hospital will be forced to make public the number
of nurses working on each ward (Mirror, 19 Nov 2013)
Criminal offence for wilful neglect
Duty of Candour
Attitude test for compassion and caring
Consistent training - common qualification/
assessment across HCPs
Appraisals
Nursing leadership
10. Traditional Health Care Culture
Mistakes occur because people are:
ď˝ Inattentive, lazy, careless, negligent & unreliable
ď˝ Those responsible are identified, blamed, retrained and disciplined
ď˝ Embarrassment to the organisation is reduced
11. Consequences of a Person Centred
Approach
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Close ranks
Cover up
Admit nothing
Tell no one
Pretend nothing happened
12. Modern Focus
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Organisational structures and systems
influence on the individual leads to
mistakes/unplanned outcomes
The best way to reduce patient safety
incidents is to target the underlying systems
failures, rather than take action against
individual members of staff
13. Human Error
âWe all make errors irrespective of how much
training and experience we possess or how
motivated we are to do it rightâ.
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(in reducing error and influencing behaviour - HSG48)
Unintended, unavoidable (or voidable) and
unexpected (or expected) incidents
Keogh Reports - inadequate numbers of nursing staff in a number of ward areas, particularly out of hours - at night and at the weekend. Berwick Report â 8 Recommendations and Francis report â Out of 290, they have said they accept 204 in full, 57 in principle and 20 in part.
PERSON-CENTRED APPROACH
Feelings of GUILT and SHAME
OPEN: staff comfortable to discuss patient safety incidents / raise concerns with colleagues / senior managersJUST: staff / patients / carers treated fairly, with empathy/consideration when involved in PSI / raising concerns NOT blamed or punishedREPORTING: staff have confidence in incident reporting system â use to report near miss and actual incidents / receive constructive feedback / easy to reportLEARNING: committed to learn from incidents / communicates lessons / organisational memoryEXEC / SENIOR MANGERS LEAD BY EXAMPLEâŚ..
OPEN: staff comfortable to discuss patient safety incidents / raise concerns with colleagues / senior managersJUST: staff / patients / carers treated fairly, with empathy/consideration when involved in PSI / raising concerns NOT blamed or punishedREPORTING: staff have confidence in incident reporting system â use to report near miss and actual incidents / receive constructive feedback / easy to reportLEARNING: committed to learn from incidents / communicates lessons / organisational memoryEXEC / SENIOR MANGERS LEAD BY EXAMPLEâŚ..
OPEN: staff comfortable to discuss patient safety incidents / raise concerns with colleagues / senior managersJUST: staff / patients / carers treated fairly, with empathy/consideration when involved in PSI / raising concerns NOT blamed or punishedREPORTING: staff have confidence in incident reporting system â use to report near miss and actual incidents / receive constructive feedback / easy to reportLEARNING: committed to learn from incidents / communicates lessons / organisational memoryEXEC / SENIOR MANGERS LEAD BY EXAMPLEâŚ..