Assignment:
- Patient safety is of utmost importance in healthcare today. And as professionals, we need to encourage the reporting of any errors or untoward incidents.
- As a nursing leader, how would you go about fostering a “blame-free” environment to encourage and foster the reporting of errors or incidents?
- Name one thing that your organization could do to minimize the occurrence of errors in patient care.
- Name one thing that your organization could do to reduce the incidence of employee injuries.
- Describe the performance improvement system utilized within your organization.
- Who is responsible for its implementation?
- How is it utilized within nursing?
- How are results communicated?
- Give an example of how practice has changed as a result.
- Give a patient example of using “SBAR” as a communication tool between a physician and RN.
- Discuss the level of evidence scale that you would expect before changing a clinical practice at your facility. Describe five examples of how nursing practice has changed based on evidence that have occurred in recent years.
