Failure to Rescue in Nursing: Causes, Incidents, and Consequences

Failure to rescue

Table of Contents
Introduction.....................................................................................................................................3
Failure to rescue..............................................................................................................................3
Incidents and prevalence of adverse events associated with failure to rescue.............................4
analysis and evaluation of consequences offailure to rescue for patient, patient family and
healthcare system.............................................................................................................................5
Conclusion........................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES..........................................................................................................................................8

Introduction
The following essay discuss is about failure to rescue. It includes experience of different
nurses indie patient intervention at risk. It also includes impact which this experience has
upon patient safety. Nurses are playing an important and vital role while managing patient
safety. But at the time of failure, the role is not recognised as well as understood by both
nurses and healthcare system. When there is lack of understanding while presenting the
barriers for nurses in intervening the patient which is at risk this problem is created.
Failure to rescue
There are lot of patients who are suffering from adequate outcomes, cardiac arrest, increased
length of hospital stay or death. Such type of patient are collectively described as failure to
rescue. There are two different factors of failure to rescue which include that patient history
demonstrate the present clinical setting of the individual. The failure for recognition includes
level of risk which the patient has for responding to words control. nurses are involved in
contributing effectively for ensuring that patient safety is considered in a clinical setting.
There are some conditions where the role of nurse is not clearly understood by healthcare
system as well as nurses. There is lack of recognition for role of patient which results in
making dinners to not intervene for the patient who is at risk. It increases moral distress in
context of nurses and there are adverse outcomes for patients. There is need of evaluating
effective ways which can increase individuals capabilities for working effectively. Nurses are
able to examine patients deligently. There are sometimes when they fail for finding a
complication with patient. This all has to manage the call for attention regarding medical
staff. Witnesses are not able to manage the situation like this for the patient and there is some
failure then it is recognised as the level where patient is at risk. Such incidences when patient
is not able to call in context of emergency responses from hospital because there is low level
of understanding about the risk then it is referred to as failure to rescue. The major reason for
failure to rescue is demonstrated by two factors which are failure to recognise and failure to
respond. When patients are hospitalised, failure to rescue is a common act which occurs.
Some factors like adverse outcomes, hospital stay, cardiac arrest, death are they main
leadings of failure to rescue.