Patient Safety: Training of Health Professionals

This article discusses the importance of ethical practices and training for healthcare professionals to ensure patient safety. It covers ethical issues, decision-making frameworks, policies, and problem-solving skills. The article also explores different ethical theories and the synergy between law and ethical theories. The subject is patient safety, and the course code, course name, and college/university are not mentioned.

Patient Safety:Training
of Health Professionals

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Patient safety is main concern within healthcare. This one refers to the providing better
safety towards the patient rights while delivering healthcare services and treatment for their
better and improved health. in this there is need to get better training for the healthcare
profession which can enable them to delivery better safety to people for the better health. In
training, there is need to follow some legal procedures along with ethical issues, policies and
decision making framework which can be effective in order to delivery better safety at the
healthcare premises and during providing healthcare services to the patient. In this, there is
discussion about the awareness of ethical codes of conduct regarding belief and rights of the
patient. There is also description about the applying problem solving skill which should be used
during the ethical dilemma. Through the training healthcare professional are able to get the
effective learning that can help to provide better and effective safety to the patient (Navalta & et.
al., (2019)).
MAIN BODY
While delivering health care services there is need to ensure about making better and
effective delivery of services which should enable the sharing of ethical way that can allow to
follow the policy and procedure that can help to delivery ethical services within healthcare
settings. In this, there are many practice which should be ethical for conducting it on the better
way which should have high impact on the delivery of healthcare services. There are many of the
ethical concern which are related to patient health safety which can includes the record, health
and information about the patient (Rowe, (2020)). There are many of the ethical concern which
should be followed in good way through following the policy and procedure during making and
decision. Ethical practice is important which can allow to deliver better and effective healthcare
services that can help to allow patient for getting appropriate service and treatment for effective
improvement in health (Fadare & et. al., (2019)). Sometime there is risk of getting ethical issue
of key legal issues which should be taken in consideration to enable about the delivery of better
and effective services and help in getting positive outcomes. During delivering healthcare
services and treatment to the patient, there is need to ensure about communicating the complex
ideas effectively with other healthcare professional and patient family. In this, there is need for
proper training to the healthcare professional to enable their skill which can be used while

delivering healthcare services to patient through using skills and delivering safety while getting
healthcare services.
There is need to aware about the ethical code of conduct for the effective service delivery
which can help to provide beliefs in ethical practices. There are also some rights of patient where
problem solving skills can be used during the ethical dilemma.
Ethical theory within healthcare refers to the attempts which provide clear and unified
account about the ethical obligation. This may include the utilitarianism, deontology,
Principlism, and virtue ethics (Kaplan, (2020)).
Utilitarianism refers to the family of normative ethical theories which are effective and
help to prescribe the action which maximise happiness along with wellbeing for the affected
individual. This can allow to delivery better care than the pain. This foster the happiness than the
pain. Here healthcare professionals should use this theory to delivery better safety to patient to
feel good with healthcare premises and feel safe.
Deontology refers to the ethical theory which states that there is some action which are
ethical wrong and should be prevented through using the clear set of rules. These are ethical and
allow healthcare professional to apply this in their practice.
Virtue ethics refers to the person rather than the action. In this, individual should possess
the good character which can be effective in delivery of services through performing action
within healthcare services.
Principlism refers to the ethical approach which includes the biomedical ethics which are
generally used as the framework including four basic ethical principles. This may include the
autonomy, non-maleficence, justice and beneficence (White, (2021)).
These all the principles are effective and related with delivery of ethical concern during
healthcare service delivery and should have focus on effective treatment with care about the
patient safety. Here, all the ethical theory is effective and take care about the ethical practice
within healthcare settings. This can be effective through providing better training to the
healthcare professionals to improve patient health.
Synergy refers to delivery of using different laws and policies within healthcare services
delivery that can be effective and allow to provide better care to patient through enhancing the
service potential (Hutchinson & et. al., (2019)). This includes the balance within the law and the
ethical theory and allow to deliver quality services to patient for their improved health. Here,

through training healthcare professional are able to deliver quality service and enhance their
potential for improved healthcare services within the premises. Law and thecal theory can be
effective and together they can enable healthcare professional to delivery better care and service
regarding ethical practices and making ethical decision that can be helpful in providing positive
outcome and enhanced service quality (Romanis & et. al., (2020)).
There is some question which can help to propose audience to stimulate the group discussion.
 How ethical practices are important in healthcare organisation?
 Does healthcare setting should follow the law and ethical consideration appropriately?
 How training can enable healthcare professional to use law and ethical practices?
CONCLUSION
From the above discussion, it can have concluded that ethical concern is effective in
healthcare setting. This should have high impact on the delivery of quality services that can
allow to get better and effective services within healthcare setting. Healthcare professional
should follow the ethical concern that are effective and allow to provide better safety while
delivering healthcare services to patient for their improved health. In this, there is discussion
about the ethical issues, decision making framework and policies which should be communicated
effectively during complex ideas. There is also discussion about the ethical codes of conduct and
patient rights and applying problem solving skills during ethical dilemma. This also provides the
information about the ethical theories and synergy between law and ethical theories.

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