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Patient Safety
Part One
Factors Affecting Ability to Protect Self from Injury (12)
age and development
lifestyle
mobility and health status
sensory perceptual alternations
cognitive awareness
emotional state
ability to communicate
safety awareness
environmental factors
substance abuse
awareness of abuse or neglect indicators
any perceived threats to safety
Swiss Cheese Model
designing systems, not to be fault-free, but so that critical failures can never align into a
catastrophe
Assessing
, nursing history and physical examination, risk assessment tools (fall risk, sepsis
screens) via the TJC and home environment
Diagnosing
risk for injury (poisoning, suffocation, trauma, falls, infection, latex allergy response,
contamination, aspiration an disuse syndrome) and accident prevention
Planning
desired outcomes (injury prevention)
Nursing Interventions
helping client and family accomplish identifying home environmental hazards in home
and community, safety practices, decrease frequency or severity of injury and safe child
rearing and lifestyle practices
National Patient Safety Goals 2025
identify patients correctly, improve staff communication, use medications safely, use
alarms safely, prevent infection, identify patient safety risks, improve health care equity
and prevent mistakes in surgery
Promoting Safety Across the Lifespan
observation or prediction of potentially harmful situations so that harm can be avoided,
client education that empowers clients to protect themselves and their families from
injury
Newborns and Infants
patients need to learn the amount of observation to maintain safety, identify and remove
common hazards, first aid intervention like CPR