By John Sandars, Gary Cook
ISBN-10: 1405156929
ISBN-13: 9781405156929
This fresh identify within the well known ABC sequence deals an up to date creation on bettering sufferer protection in fundamental and secondary care. The ABC of sufferer protection covers a space of accelerating significance in healthcare and offers a transparent description of the underlying ideas that effect perform. sufferer defense is now an essential component of the educational for all beginning medical professionals and is swiftly turning into an element of many undergraduate and postgraduate checks, together with the nMRCGP. This booklet is a perfect better half for this training.A big variety of scientific employees and executives in basic and secondary care will locate this booklet an important textual content, providing a fantastic theoretical and useful relief to sufferer safeguard. GPs and perform managers will locate this e-book of specific curiosity, in addition to scientific and nursing scholars.
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1 Characteristics of a positive safety culture • • • • • • • • Communication founded on mutual trust and openness Good information flow and processing Shared perceptions of the importance of safety Recognition of the inevitability of error Proactive identification of latent threats to safety Organizational learning Committed leadership and executive responsibility A ‘no blame, nonpunitive’ approach to incident reporting and analysis (After Kirk S, Marshall M, Claridge T et al. Evaluating safety culture.
The potential probability and the potential impact (seriousness) of harm have to be considered. 11). A clinical risk that is rare but serious, such as a blood dyscrasia associated with a particular medication, has to be considered against a risk that is very common but less serious, such as a mild allergic skin rash with a different medication. 2 Safe disposal of sharps reduces the risk of needle-stick injury. ) predict who will experience the dyscrasia or to eliminate it, and so it has to be accepted.
In addition, it is not uncommon for there to be more localized reporting systems in specific clinical settings, for example in pathology or intensive care. There has been the development of national systems to capture incidents and promote wider learning. In the UK, the National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS) of the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) collects reports from across England and Wales, largely from LRMS (Fig. 1). The NRLS data set covers: free text description of what happened; when and where it happened; characteristics of the patient(s) involved; the outcome for the patient; and the staff involved in the incident and/or making the report.
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