Authors
Uma Sharma
Abstract
In current scenario, a portion of hospitalized patients die during or after hospitalization. So, there is need to increase the quality enhancement actions and role of nurses in these efforts. In year 2004, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) reported in ‘Keeping Patients Safe’: Altering the Work Atmosphere of Nurses that nurses play a very significant role in patient safety, therefore, nurses are always considered at the “sharp end” of error. Therefore, safety of patient is one of the crucial and significant component of nursing care and calls for global solutions. Improving the patient safety has been therefore primary concern for health services globally as today’s its one most challenging issue. Here in this paper an effort has been put to understand the role of nurse in patient safety. This paper has reviewed about the different researchers work and tried to put highlights on what nurses have already incorporated to enhance the safe care and positive outcomes from patients. Keywords: Patient Safety, Role of Nurses
Introduction
In World Health Organization, the safety of patient is defined as the “the decreasing of risk of unnecessary harm linked with healthcare to an acceptable minimum. An acceptable minimum refers to the combined ideas of given recent information, resources available and the context in which care was delivered, compared against the risk of non-treatment or other treatment” (https://www.sidiief.org). The Medical institute also defined patient safety as “To prevent the patients from harm” and this definition has been emerged from the health care quality movement. The AHRQ Patient Safety Network Web site elaborated the prevention of harm as the “medical care produce the freedom from unintended or avoidable injuries”. Further, the National Quality Forum defined patient safety in its report Standardizing a Patient Safety Taxonomy as effect and severity of procedure of care failure: “temporary or permanent injury to function of body physiologically and psychologically” but this arrangement gives the negative results of absence of patient safety; it is not a positive arrangement. The problems of patient safety are categories into type (error), patient management, communication, and medical performance. Further this type of errors and harm are categorized into hidden failure, dynamic failure, administrative system failure, mechanical failure (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov).
Council of European Union and World Health Organization in 2009 and 2010 respectively has broadly abstracted the prevention of avoidable patient harm or possible harm and further defined patient safety as the searching for the reduction and modification of harmful acts in healthcare system. (Vaismoradi, et al. 2011).
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