Patient Safety in Healthcare: Challenges and Strategies

Summative assessment

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
AIM AND OBJECTIVE..................................................................................................................3
Aim.........................................................................................................................................3
Objective.................................................................................................................................3
LITERATURE REVIEW................................................................................................................3
Notion of patient safety in health and social care sector........................................................3
Causes and challenge during constructing patient safety in healthcare setting......................6
Ways and strategies that used to minimise the challenge during implementing patient safety in
healthcare setting....................................................................................................................8
THEORECTICAL FRAMEWORK FOR CHANGE....................................................................11
SMART OBJECTIVE..........................................................................................................11
Communication plan............................................................................................................11
Gantt chart............................................................................................................................14
PROJECT PLAN...........................................................................................................................15
The plan................................................................................................................................15
The budget............................................................................................................................16
Contingency plan..................................................................................................................16
Project plan...........................................................................................................................17
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................18
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................19

INTRODUCTION
According to World Health Organisation, patient safety is referring as healthcare discipline
which emerged with rising complexity in health and social care system. The main aim of
assessment to understand the pivotal role that played by healthcare system to create patient safety
and challenge that may arise during constructing the aim that is suitable for patient safety. The
main aim is to prevent and minimise risk, error and harm that predominantly occur to patient
during provision of health and care (Aljaffary and et. al., 2021). In addition, the cornerstone of
discipline is well show continuous approach for improvement based on learning from error and
adverse events. Patient safety is fundamental to deliver quality essential health service. Beside
this, there are no any clear consensus that quality health service across the world which is well
effective, safe and person centred. Therefore, it is eventually important in order to make the
visualisation which is best for quality healthcare, health service which is must timely equitable,
integrated and more efficient. In order to ensure the successful implementation of patient safety
ways that is well suitable for clear policies, leadership abilities, data to drive safety improvement,
skilled healthcare processional and effective involvement in the patient support and care which is
all required and needed (Gandhi and et. al., 2018).
There are some of the rising question and issue which formulate the essence of patient safety
that is irresponsible behaviour or other factor that lead to cause harm of patient. A mature health
system is taking into account which enhance complexity within the healthcare setting that make
human more prone towards the mistakes. For example, the patient in healthcare setting is used to
receive the wrong medication because they combine the drug due to the similarities that lead to
create the aspect which harm the patient health. In such cases, prescription usually passes
through the various level of care that started with doctor from the assign ward, then to the
pharmacy for dispensing and finally to the nurse who is taking responsibilities for the wrong
medication to patient (López-Hernández and et. al., 2020). The safeguarding process is usually
enable in the various of level that help to monitor error which is happen due to irresponsible
behaviour of staff and member who is taking consideration of patient safety. In such condition,
lack or insufficient standard process for the storage of medication that an alike, poor
communication between nurses, doctor and medical team, lack of verification before medication
administration and lack of involvement of patient in their own care that might all the underlying
factor show the leading occurrence of errors (Morris and et. al., 2021).
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In addition to patient safety, individual provider who is actively made the mistake or any
active error is used to create the blame for such incident that is occur and might also punished as
the outcome. Such kind of active behaviour which is related with error lead to create the issue
from active to latent error (Rabiei and et. al., 2018). It is also seen that multiple latent error aligns
that an active error which is reached the patient. In regards with the patient safety there are
various of consideration are used to taken in healthcare setting which show minimum harm to
patient that is negotiable in term of patient health. There are some of harm which is well
associated with the patient and also render the patient safety is medication error that is act as
main leading cause of injury and avoidable harm in healthcare system. It is also examined that
due to the medication error approx. 42 billion cost is used. The other risk of harm towards the
patient safety is healthcare associated infection that is occur in 7 and 10 out of every 100
hospitalised patients which is present in high income countries and low and middle income
countries with the respective ways. In addition to this, the problem is common which is faced by
wide range of people when they are access for quality of care. The specific group which is
selected for report is patient with all age group and disease. Therefore, the research is narrow and
focus on specific group to support care and manage the safety of patient (Kellogg and et. al.,
2021).
Unsafe surgical care procedure that also act as harm of patient safety where it causes
complication in up 25 patients. Therefore, 7 million of surgical patient suffer with significant
complication on the annual basis. Therefore 1 million of people or patient die during the surgery
due to the error which is related with surgical process that lead to cause death of patient. Overall,
patient safety within healthcare setting is the fundamental component that must obeyed by
healthcare professional by following their responsibilities and duties with adequate manner
(Kotsenas and et. al., 2021). The safety of patient during the provision of health service that is
safe and associated with high quality prerequisite for strengthen healthcare system and making
progress towards effective health coverage under the sustainable goals 3 that used to ensure
healthy lives and promote health and wellbeing for all the age group. It is also essential to
analyse the effect of patient safety in minimising cost which is related to patient harm and
improve efficiency in the healthcare setting. The provision of safe service which is also help to
reassure and restore communities and group which is based on trust in their healthcare system. In
this work, the major of discussion is based on patient safety in healthcare setting. The concept
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and impact is also discussed which is beneficial to implement the best plan which is reliable to
construct safeguarding for patient safety from issue which render their health and safety (Ward
and et. al., 2019). In this research work, the objective is used to follow with the elaboration of
aim that support the overall report. In this, study usually suggest the patient safety in the health
and social care sector where challenge is determined and appropriate intervention to reduce the
complication (Bouwman and et. al., 2021).
AIM AND OBJECTIVE
Aim
To understand the positive effect of patient safety in the health and social care sector.
Objective
 To analyse the notion of patient safety in health and social care sector.
 To evaluate the causes and challenge during implementation of patient safety in
healthcare setting.
 To examine the ways and strategies that used to minimise the challenge during
implementing patient safety in healthcare setting.
LITERATURE REVIEW
Notion of patient safety in health and social care sector
In health and social care sectors; safety of patients is a discipline that highlighted with the
evolving complications in the field of healthcare and social care sectors and increase in case of
patient harm in healthcare and social care facilities. Patient safety aims to reduce risk and prevent
patient from getting harmed due to any errors posed by professionals or trainers during provision
of healthcare. Proper planning and implementation of safety programs help to minimize the risk
of injuries or infections within patients. Strict sterilization and following sanitization policies
within medical premises may help in lowering the case of nosocomial infections (Hospital-
acquired infections) in patients, including infection at surgical site or pneumonia. There are
several factors that supposed to be crucial in improving patient safety in hospitals are: proper
verification of all medical procedures prior to start any treatment, ensure that patient is aware
about the treatment and have an understanding regarding the medication, treatment plan, and
medical procedures. It is important to have an awareness so that they can prevent the risk of
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errors in their own care. Medical professionals should follow proper handwashing procedures
which may prove to be very effective in preventing the spread of germs and infections in
hospitals (Raurell-Torredà and et. al., 2021).
Healthcare workers can assess monitoring technologies to verify right procedure for the
patient while providing them services. Monitoring system provide an easy way to prevent harm
from human errors in hospital premises. Considering patient safety as an important aspect is very
beneficial by many ways. It prevents patients from getting harmed and improve health outcomes.
Patient simply able to access the most suitable and appropriate treatment plan. Wrong practices
by errors by professionals leads the patient to hospital readmission and many adverse effects.
Ideas of bringing improvements in patient safety plans ensure high-quality care for all patients.
Notion of patient safety helps to prevent medication administration errors. It has been reported
that a huge proportion of patients getting harmed by administering wrong dosage or wrong
medication which may give catastrophic results. Nursing staff and therapists can use medication
management protocols to confirm correct dosage and correct medicine for identified patient in
order to improve patient-safety. Prevention of infection control issues is a key that can be
achieved by following strict hygiene policies along with patient screening in hospitals (Pagliari,
2021).
Practising proper screening prevents the spread of infections as well as inhibit notorious
virus to invade in human body within the healthcare facility. Otherwise, any sort of carelessness
can emerge the risk of infection spread which may lead to make other patients more ill during the
process. Promoting patient safety practices may help the patient as well as hospital
administration to save a lot of money. Costs that hospital may suffer due to litigation, patient
misidentification, patient harm, denied claims, and medication administration errors and many
more. All these errors may collectively result to create a burden of large expenses for any
healthcare system. Poor quality healthcare and unsafe practices reported to harm millions of
patients every year globally. Medication errors, practising unsafe surgical procedures, Hospital-
acquired infections, unsafe injection practices, diagnostic errors, radiation errors, risks of sepsis,
and unsafe transfusion practices are some of the situations that may increase the burden of harm
in medical facilities (Marin-Garcia, Vidal-Carreras, and Garcia-Sabater, 2021).
Apart from this Venous thromboembolism is one of the most common cause of patient
harm. One third of the complications ends up to hospitalisation. Nurses can give a recognisable
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