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NURS 3100 Final Essay: Patient Safety Measures (Walden)
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Patient Safety Measures
NURS 3100 Week 6, Issues and Trends
Patient Safety Measures
There are many quality control indicators that are in place to ensure patient safety, and overall better outcome, when they are admitted into the hospital. These quality indicators are a preventative measure for our patients when in our care. One quality indicator that is very important in the hospital setting, is patient safety measures. The purpose of this paper is to inform the reader about why we have quality indicators for patient safety measures, and how it became important.
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?As an ER nurse, I have seen a lot of issues arise in patient safety. One issue is the amount of people that come into the emergency room with non- emergent cases. Since the Affordable Care Act came into play, I don’t think that they really prepared for what was going to happen to …
I have been an emergency room nurse for 5 years. I have seen many different cases and many different kinds of people. Two issues that are becoming more and more of a problem is drug seekers and the effect on nurses and patients since the affordable health care act came about. Both of these issues have caused nursing, in the emergency room, somewhat of a challenge to enjoy your job. From the influx of patients coming in to the regular patients demanding pain medicine and taking up space and time for someone else, who really needs the bed, just to get their free shot of a high.
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Prevention Quality Indicators
NURS 3100 Section 01, Issues and Trends
Prevention Quality Indicators
The core of any government is to give its citizens’ quality and affordable health care. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) developed some quality indicators that help assess the quality of Health care services given in the country (AHRQ, 2011). Prevention …
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?Nursing can be a struggle at times, especially when not working with a good team of people. The team that us nurses must learn to lead, collaborate, and understand, is made up of the doctors, other nurses, nurses aids/er techs, physician assistants, LVNs, medical assistants, and …
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One of the biggest issues in the hospital is the readmission and death rates after leaving thehospital within 30 days of being discharged for pneumonia, copd, stroke, heart failure. I looked on the Medicare database for my hospital, Kaiser Foundation Hospital in Fontana. Per this database, the readmissions rates were no different than the national average, as well as the death rates.
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?I can’t believe this class is already over and how much we have learned! Looking back on when I first started, I had hoped to learn and understand statistics and how to apply it to my everyday life. I remember reading the first chapters and how different polls are taken and the margin of error, and how that affects the polls. I found this to be especially interesting ...