NURS 320: Patient Safety Culture - Aging Patient Home Care Pamphlet

This assignment is a patient safety culture pamphlet designed to educate clients on the home care of aging adults. The pamphlet covers essential aspects of patient care, including preventive measures, information sharing between family members and caregivers, and local community resources. It provides five tips for preventive care, addressing common senior healthcare concerns such as falls, incontinence, dementia, pain, depression, and isolation. The pamphlet also emphasizes the importance of optimizing critical healthcare conditions, promoting emotional and physical well-being, and maintaining communication with healthcare facilities. It highlights the significance of sharing past medical conditions, critical health concerns, and potential risks with caregivers to ensure effective treatment. The pamphlet includes references in APA format, ensuring the information is up-to-date and evidence-based. The goal is to provide a comprehensive guide for safe and effective home care for aging patients, incorporating patient safety culture principles.

How to care for an agi
patient at home
The resources that are important for the aged
care process and would be available nearby
are:
1. Area Agencies on Aging
2. Programs Of All Inclusive Care for
Elderly
3. National Council On Aging
4. Meals on Wheals
5. Eldercare locator and
6. National Institute On Aging
These community resources are effective in
formulating and delivering care for the elderly
patients in several aspects.
References
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Local community resources
important for patient care (Patient safety culture related pamphle
The information that should be shared between family members an care givers are:
 All the past medical conditions, complications and surgeries should be conveyed to
the care givers so that they could understand the complexity of patient conditions.
 The patient should be provided with medical attention and the family members should
work along with the care giver so that they could develop effective care process.
 All the critical health concern, both physical and mental that the patient is suffering
from or has the risk of development should be shared among the patients so that
they could be prepared and could help in the effective treatment of the patient. (Surr
et al., 2017)
 Besides these, all the risks related to medication errors, elder abuse, effect of
neglect and family concerns should be shared within the family member and
caregivers so that effective treatment could be developed and implemented in the
care process (Badr, Carmack & Diefenbach, 2015).
While caring for older adults in their homes, care professionals and family m
able to implement the preventive measures so that the elderly patient cou
adverse health conditions (Selmanet al., 2018). The tips for their preventive treatment a
1. Their common senior healthcare concerns such as falls, incontinen
pain, depression and isolation should be addressed effectively.
2. Family members should be able to optimize the critical healthcare
3. Their emotional wellbeing should be addressed by determining the
wellbeing (De Palma et al., 2018).
4. Their physical health should be promoted by including them back i
activities.
5. Healthcare facilities should always be communicated for any critic
condition (Peimani et al., 2016).