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Communication and Patient Safety in the Healthcare System

   

Added on  2021-01-03

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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................3MAIN BODY..............................................................................................................................................3Identification of chosen patient and the reason why they are at risk........................................................3CONCLUSION...........................................................................................................................................8REFERENCES..........................................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION The communication and patient safety are related to each other because by providing thepatient with proper information regarding the diseases and the treatment required will providethe patient with the trust on the healthcare professional which will help in increasing the chancesof recovery of the patients. Patient safety at the healthcare leads to improved image of the careproviders. In this assignment, it will provide information regarding the Ruby bell which is the 4year old child suffering from Gastroenteritis. It is a disease that is characterised by vomiting anddiarrhoea. Moreover, This assignment will provide information regarding the risk of erroroccurring while they are in hospital receiving the nursing care.MAIN BODYIdentification of chosen patient and the reason why they are at riskThe patient for the research is Ruby bell which is 4 years old suffering from gastroenteritis. It is a disease which is also known as infectious Diarrhoea (Tobiano and et.al., 2016). Patient safety is important for performing the operation in the healthcare. There are various risk error which are present in the healthcare for the Ruby Inappropriate information provided to the patient regarding the patient health.Failure to disclose the complication and risk of intervention Poor communication between department Inadequacy of skills and knowledgeInadequate supervision lack of privacy The patient is a 4 year old child which does not have any knowledge and understanding regarding the situation. The patient require close monitoring and supervisor and it is required thatthe healthcare professional must provide every details of the patient to its parents to have a proper treatment. The patient is very young and thus it is not possible to obtain valid consent to an intervention from the patient (Sahay, Hutchinson and East, 2015). Failure to communicate with the health professionals provide reasonable standard of care. Moreover, failure to communicate with supervisors when patient safety is in Jeopardy. There are various human errors which act as risk of error for the vulnerable patients which are based on skill, knowledge, rule etc (Chaboyer and et.al., 2016). The patient have lack of understanding due to which these errors may impact on their health such as unhygienic environment (Gluyas, 2015). The type of error are human errors and system errors which have their impact on the patient health (Bucknall and et.al., 2016). The individual errors of judgement, writing the prescription , failure to communicate, failure to record accurately and poor management of the staff resources can have its impact on the health of Ruby bell.

The information is gathered through the database of Ovid in which the search strategy adopted is through the use of keywords gastroenteritis , patient safety, child care and medical error , diseases or preschooler , communication barrier (Searches, 2019).This article is providing information regarding decision making for the patient suffering from acute gastroenteritis. It has involved the decision made by the nurses for the treatment of the patient. Acute gastroenteritis is the most frequently encountered problems in pediatric emergency department (Implementation of clinical decision support in young children with acutegastroenteritis: a randomized controlled trial at the emergency department, 2017). This article was published in the year 2014. This article is relevant because with the help of this information the healthcare will be able to reduce the risk of errors which have the adverse impact on health of the patient. The article is relevant for the study because it will provide information to the healthcare for the better patient health by reducing the risk of errors.

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