Description
Choose one quality or patient safety concern with which you are familiar and that you have not yet discussed in this course. In a 1,500 word essay, reflect on what you have learned in this course of improvement performance and healthcare quality by applying the concepts to the quality or patient safety concern you have selected. Include the following in your essay:
- Briefly describe the issue and associated challenges.
- Explain how EBP, research, and PI would be utilized to address the issue.
- Explain the PI or QI process you would apply and discuss why you chose it.
- Describe your data sources, including outcome and process data.
- Explain how the data will be captured and disseminated.
- Discuss which organizational culture considerations will be essential to the success of your work
- This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
- use 5 APA citation reference within 5years with nursing content.
Explanation & Answer
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Running head: PATIENT SAFETY CONCERN
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Patient Safety Concern
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Patient Safety Concern
Who (2021) defines patient safety as the absence of avoidable harm to patients during
healthcare processes and reduced risks that cause unnecessary damages related to health care to
an acceptable minimum. The acceptable minimum is the collective notions of the available
resources and the provided current knowledge in this context. Thus, patient safety serves as the
backbone of the healthcare system. Besides cancer and heart disease, hospital errors can be
ranked as the third leading cause of death. Patient safety concerns include; diagnostic errors,
medication errors, workplace safety issues, patient discharge errors, sepsis, reprocessing issues,
data management problems, and medical devise cyber-insecurity. These concerns cause several
damages to healthcare institutions, such as worsening patients' situations, causing deaths, causing
additional illnesses as well as ruining the hospital's reputation. Therefore, patient safety exists to
reduce and prevent the risks, harm, and errors occurring to patients during healthcare provision.
This paper further discusses the patient safety concern of diagnostic errors, describes the issue
and how it can get addressed.
Brief Description of the Issue and Associated Challenges
Diagnostic errors occur when health care providers get the wrong diagnosis. In some
instances, diagnostic errors can be defined as the delayed or missed diagnosis, as detected by
findings or a subsequent definitive. Mostly, these errors occur due to doctor-patient
communication, patient medical history, and cognitive errors. Most healthcare providers lack
enough information on properly diagnosing and treating patients at the patient medical history.
For instance, physicians lack a complete medical history and chart of their patients to determine
their progress. Also, due to poor doctor-patient communication, diagnostic errors have high
chances of occurring. On several occasions, patients fail to express and explain their symptoms
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appropriately to healthcare providers, which leads to a misdiagnosis. Moreover, cognitive errors
such as health care providers ignoring minor symptoms such as coughs and sniffles may limit
them from getting the right diagnosis. However, there exist several challenges of addressing this
patient concern issue. For instance, there are inadequate measures that promote diagnostic
accuracy. The existing measurements do not consider diagnostic accuracy (Ahrq, 2019). This
means that all hospit...
