Interprofessional Practice and Patient Safety

Interprofessional Practice and Patient Safety
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Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Concept failure to rescue.............................................................................................................3
Discussion of the incidence & prevalence of adverse events that are linked to failure to rescue
in the Australian acute healthcare environment...........................................................................4
Analysis and evaluation of the consequences of failure to rescue for the patient; the patient’s
family; and the health care system...............................................................................................6
Evaluation of TWO nursing strategies........................................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9
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A. Outline the Aim
Aim of project is to understand the concept of failure to rescue. Interprofessional
practices is defined the different health worker from multiple professional background working
together with families, patients, communities and each other to deliver health care. The essay
will discuss the incidence & prevalence of adverse events, establish as linked to the failure in
patient rescue in Australian acute healthcare environment. Discussion will be identified the
specific consequences of failure in the rescue for patient. Moreover, it will discuss about the
different kind of nursing strategies, which involves either in patient, family and health care
system. This will help for prevent the registered nurse from failing to the rescue, maintain or
control all kind of patient safety measurement.
B. Concept failure to rescue
The concept of failure to rescue which means that capture innovative idea that, although
not identified the complication at every medical care. The health care system is able to determine
the causes of patient disease and provide the treatment as possible manner (Cahn, 2020). When
applied the health care, the concept of failure or rescue which may refer to the ability or
capability of team, identify any kind of changes in the patient’s health condition as quickly.
C. Discussion of the incidence & prevalence of adverse events that are linked to failure to rescue
in the Australian acute healthcare environment.
The incidence & prevalence of adverse events during hospitalisation and complication
after surgery, which become quite common. According to the Australian Acute healthcare
environment, there are one fifth of patients, who underwent in surgery and died because of the
treatable complication (Dinius & et.al., 2020). Within Australian, 10% to 15% of patients
experienced a major complication at the time of surgery. Moreover, some patients have been
identified the unpredictable, symptomatic process of worsening physiology condition towards
clinical illness.
Despite the wide acceptance of FTR (Failure to rescue) as consider the patient safety
indicator, identified the variation of this concept in term of health care jurisdiction. In this way, it
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