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Acute Care Nursing Core Concept

   

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CORECONCEPTIN ACUTECARENURSING1
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TABLEOF CONTENTSIntroduction .....................................................................................................................................31. Define adverse event ...................................................................................................................32. Introduce the patient ...................................................................................................................33. Brief summary of patient’s principal diagnosis, past medical history, medication and relevantresults...............................................................................................................................................44. Describe the patient’s adverse event. What happened? How the patient’s adverse eventmanaged by nursing and medical staff ............................................................................................45. Analyze current workplace system with best practice guidelines to manage this event.............56. Compare current workplace systems for managing this event. What does the AustralianCommission on Safety and Quality in Health Care suggest ..........................................................67. Identify areas for improvement in the management of adverse events ......................................77. Conclusion and Recommendations regarding changes required in the practice .........................8References......................................................................................................................................102
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INTRODUCTIONAdverse events depicts errors and mistakes in the process of medication which causesinjuries and problems to the person. Thus, in such respect the present research study has beendescribing the impact of adverse event on the patient. The entire study has been conducted on thebasis of a case study which denotes the issue of medication error. Furthermore, in the researchstudy discussion has also been included regarding guidelines that are essential to be followedespecially at the time of managing adverse events. Lastly, considering this aspectrecommendations have been given to manage the impact of adverse events in health care sector. 1. DEFINEADVERSEEVENTAdverse events are defined as incidents wherein harm is resulted to a person whoreceives health care. Adverse event usually happens because of medication errors and that alsomakes the health condition more critical and severe. Adverse event include infection, falls resultsin injuries and improper use of medical devices. In the area of clinical practice, an unfortunatemedical occurrence that may present during the event with any sort of medical error which has acausal relationship with the treatment. Thus, in other words, adverse events is called as injury to patient that occurs due to errorsin medication. This states that hospital and medical care service providers are engaged in themedical error that causes injuries and harm to the respective patient. The impact of adverseevents can be highly dangerous because improper emphasis on medical aspects can bring severechallenges to the patient (D’Amour and et. al., 2014).Apart from this, adverse event may also be called as incidents happened in the hospitalsdue to errors in practices and also due to changes in the medicinal doses. Adverse events directlygenerates medical burden and at the same time it also enhances liabilities of the hospital towardsthe patient. 2. INTRODUCETHEPATIENTThe present study has been focusing on a 7 years old boy who was healthy admitted inthe emergency department because of swilling in his right arm. While running, he fell down onhis outstretched arm and after that he started complaining of severe pain in his wrist. The boydoes not have any sort of allergies in the body. However, when he feel down, the left wrist3
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