Assessing the Contribution of Training on Patient Safety in Healthcare

This report provides an overview of healthcare management, emphasizing the significance of training and development in enhancing patient safety within healthcare organizations. It discusses the crucial role of health professionals in delivering high-quality care and the need for effective training programs to improve their skills and knowledge. The report highlights the importance of training in preventing medical errors, managing risks, and utilizing technology effectively. It examines various training methods and their impact on patient outcomes, referencing several articles and studies. The discussion covers human factors, technology integration, and the need for continuous training to maintain and improve patient safety. The report stresses the importance of a well-trained workforce in providing safe and efficient healthcare services, aiming to reduce risks and improve overall patient care.

Managing Modern
Healthcare Organisations

EXECUTIVE'S SUMMARY
In the present time, health and social care association is persistently developing and each
individual requires mind benefit in their life. The imperative of human services homes has
increment in the public. In this association, health specialists and specialist organization assume
a urgent part since whole process and task are to a great extent subordinate upon them.
Significant duty of the professional is to convey incredible nature of care administration to
patients so as they may capable enhance their incapacity and medical problem. Administration
specialists ought to take after compelling social insurance practices and strategies with the goal
that they can build up a successful association and fulfil the need of administration clients in a
powerful way. At the time of delivering health care services and treatment, it is great
responsibility of health care experts and professionals to take care of the equipment, associated
hazard etc so as service users can not face any kind of uncertain accident. It is another great
responsibility of health experts to deliver effective care services to patient so as they can improve
their health issue and problem in an effective and efficient manner. The current report provides
the detail knowledge and understanding about health care management and its associated
practices. Training and development of health experts and professionals is one of the significant
aspect in the health and care management through which patient can get high level of treatment
and care services. There is a great significance of training and development of health experts and
professionalism in order to maintain patient safety. The present discussion have main objective is
to assess the contribution of training and development of health experts in patient safety within
health and care organisation. The major objective of this analysis and discussion is to analyse
the impact of training on the patient safety within the health and care organisation. With help of
several articles the understanding about the training in patient safety have been addressed.

Table of Contents
EXECUTIVE'S SUMMARY..........................................................................................................1
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Health care management is recognised as the profession which provides direction as well
as leadership to an enterprise which further renders health services. Health management system
is refers to as purposeful as well as efficient utilisation of health system resources and to get
members of the health team coordinated to work harmoniously in order to achieve the desired
common goals. Objectives of Morden health care management is to assist an individual in
equipped with the skills and knowledge an individual need in order to become capable of
dealing with the demands of customers and provide effective healthcare services. The root
cause of the problem in health and social care setting is integration of heath departments,
increase in work pressure, ineffective training to medical staff , changing the health needs etc.It
is required by health care institution to make improvement in health care delivery system. As this
strategy will assist health care institution in providing high level of satisfaction to customers.
Many of the health care institution believes that they can improve services by employing
technology at workplace. This factors will also assist hospital in increasing the safety of patients
and maintaining the quality of services. The benefits of a specific technology may not be realized
due to four common factors these are poor design of technology,ineffective technology interface
with the patient , inadequate plan for employing technology within health care setting etc.
MAIN BODY
Health and security administration is a sorted out endeavors and system keeping in mind
the end goal to distinguishing work environment chance and defeat a mishap and exposures to
destructive circumstance and substances (Healy, 2011). The significant target of heath and
security administration is to give the mindfulness and learning about the mischance preventions,
mishap reaction, developing readiness and utilization of defensive garments and gear. In an
association there are a few odds of indeterminate mishap, perils, chance and so forth which may
straightforwardly influence soundness of workers and businesses. At the season of working,
representatives and boss should escape from the questionable mischances, danger, chance, hurt
and so on. It is extraordinary duty of the association to oversee such successful working
conditions and course of action of business through which no representatives can get hurt and
harmed at work environment. So as to conquer a few mishaps, dubious mischief, chance, wounds
and so on administration of association ought to embrace and take after viable practices,
strategies, enactment, set of principles and so forth. In the opinion of Harris, Olsen and Walker,
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(2012) in the health and care organisation, patient safety is one of the major issue which have to
be consider by the management of corporation. It is very important for the corporation to deliver
effective services and care to patient so as they can improve their health issue. Patient safety is
one of the important aspect in the health and care setting by which management can easily
improve health of service users. In a simple word it is a discipline that emphasizes safety in
health care through the prevention, reduction, reporting and analysis of medical error that often
leads of adverse effects (Hadad and et.al., 2013). In order to maintain effective patient safety
within health and care organisation, training is one of the significant aspect. Once health experts
and professional get training and development opportunity then they can improve their existing
skill, knowledge, ability, working criteria, methods etc regarding working within health and care
setting (Bowen, Privitera and Bowie, 2011). With help of training, health experts can learn
several methods regarding to deliver care services and treatment to patient. There are various
kinds of training methods in the health and care organisation that used to impart skills relevant to
psychological practice in a variety of mental health professionals. The patient safety
improvement Corps is a nationwide training program that is a key component of the patient
safety initiated operated by the agency for A healthcare research and quality. The major
objective of the PSIC is to enhance the numbers of capacity of health care professional with core
patient safety skill and tools. The PSIC have developed to provide the training to team in the
health and care setting. It is very important for the health and care organisation to organise such
effective training program for its health care experts and doctors through which they can improve
their skill and methods to operate the equipment regarding care services and treatment of service
users.
As per the article, Persistent Safety isn't a symptom of good patient care by talented clinicians.
Persistent security is a subject without anyone else, which was customarily not educated to
restorative staff. This must and will significantly change later on. Instruction has a key part to
play in enhancing tolerant security, and we completely bolster the advancement, scattering and
conveyance of patient wellbeing preparing". Understanding wellbeing preparing is a
multidisciplinary point and undertaking, which expects us to coordinate with security specialists
from various fields (Haas and Yorio, 2016). Preparing and instruction are basic to the
achievement of any protected patient taking care of program, particularly preparing on
appropriate patient taking care of hardware utilize and progressing training about the advantages
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of safe patient taking care of. By teaching all staff, including doctors, about your protected
patient taking care of program, doctor's facilities can lessen cases of a clinician requesting that or
expecting associates move patients in a hazardous way. Preparing can run from on location
exhibits of gear utilize and support to more extensive safe patient dealing with training projects
and national meetings (Ellenbecker and Tsai, 2015.). Parental figures should feel great utilizing
the gear. In the event that the guardian utilizes the hardware effectively and productively,
patients will feel more good as well. Notwithstanding checking new representatives, nurture
directors and other "security champions" can fill in as tutors and companion mentors in each
unit, reminding their partners how and when to utilize safe patient dealing with strategies and
hardware.
Patient care technology has contributed al lot towards transforming the way nursing care is
conceptualized and delivered. Before the advancement in technology nurses or medical staff in
hospitals uses their senses, relied on the knowledge as well as skills for identifying the problem
faced by the patient and recognising the symptoms of diseases. The objective of Veterans Health
Administration is to improve the safety, quality and cost-effectiveness of the services provided
to customers. Veterans Health Administration has gained popularity as a leading health care
institution due to good quality of services. But an organisation has failed to provide safety to its
patient. The major reason behind this failure is the lack of training by workers. Business entity
has to face various issues due to the inefficiency in working due to which the patient has to wait
for long term for availing services. This factor has great as well as significant effect on the
reputation of firm ( Nelson AL, Baptiste A. Evidence-based practices for safe patient handling
and movement,2017 ) After facing the issues the health care institution has planned to implement
technology at workplace. Consider the case of pulse oximetry. Before widespread utilisation of
technology, nurses relied on subtle changes in mental status and skin colour to detect early
changes in oxygen saturation, and medical used arterial blood gasses to confirm their suspicions.
Now pulse oxymetry enables medical professional to identify decreased oxygenation before
clinical symptoms appear, and thus more promptly diagnose as well as treat underlying causes.
As per the view of Gosbee , human factors is the field in health and social care setting which
mainly have focus on understanding human characteristics and identifying the way medical staff
interact with environment. This human factors discipline is also concerned with analysing the
way medical staff applies their knowledge as well as skills in designing the system which are
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safe, efficient as well as comfortable. According to the opinion of (Brownson, Colditz and
Proctor, eds., 2017.)Without a complete understanding of human factors, the attitude is to
concentrate on human failures as the major source of error, and to focus attention on automation
of tasks is to prevent errors. As per the perception of (Butcher, Bulechek and Wagner, 2018)he
states that While humans are known to be fallible,management team in health care institution
delegate responsibilities to medical staff or nurses related to dealing with emergencies or
difficult or emergency situation. This factor increases the risk to safety of patient .Medical staff
or nurses are allowed to operate the technology without the knowledge increases the chances of
accidents at workplace. As per the opinion of (Lucille, Harmon and Brown-Scott, 2017) it is
required by management team in Veterans Health Administration to make proper training
arrangement for employees and allow them to gain several skills. As this strategy will assist
health care institution in reducing the risk as well as medical errors. According to the perception
of medical professional in hospitals are required to provide training to staff and educate them
about the techniques or methods which can be utilised by medical staff or nurses for dealing or
managing emergency situation. As per the view of (Campbell, 2014) skills need to be practices
endlessly in order to preserve them, yet the occasional system failure denies the staff an
opportunity to practice the abilities or core competencies needed in such an emergency.
According to the thinking of (Paustenbach, 2015) nurses work at the front lines of health care ,
they are the first person to whom patient meets. Any action taken by nurses or their attitude
towards patient has great as well as great influence on the behaviour of customers. During the
time of uncertain situations front-line workers for human error associated with technology
failures are blamed by patient or their family members. The reason for these obligations are lack
of training, deficient procedures, deficient planning or scheduling. Etc. Therefore training to the
nurses as well as other medical staff is very much essential in order to avoid complex as well as
critical situations. It is also important to provide training to medical staff in terms of improving
services and increasing the safety of patients. Training and development opportunities provide to
medical staff or nurses will help them in delivering quality as well as professional services and
suitable care to patients (ECRI Institute. Medical device safety reports,2006)
As per this article, a well trained health care experts can effectively use several machines,
equipment and resources in order to provide care services to patient. With help of training and
development program, they can learn the methods to use new and latest technology in the health
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care organisation for deliver care services and treatment to patient. Thus, the major contribution
of the training program in the patient safety is related to the equipment and technological use as
they can learn the method to operate equipment and new machines regarding care services and
treatment. In addition to this, a train care giver and heath care expert have a unique characteristic
to check patient mobility every time. They can easily communicate with them and identify their
issue regarding health.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it has been concluded that in the health and care organisation,
there is great significance of training in order to maintain patient safety. As well trained and
educated doctor and health expert can easily identify actual issue of health of patient and deliver
care services accordingly. They may not face issue regarding the identification of health problem
among patient. Further, training helps to the health care experts in learn the method to operate
the equipment, new machines, new technology etc regarding care services within health and care
organisation. By help of training they can learn new skill, ability and criteria to operate machines
regarding health and care services and treatment. It has been also concluded that By educating
all staff, including physicians, about your safe patient handling program, hospitals can reduce
instances of a clinician asking or expecting colleagues to move patients in an unsafe way.
Training can range from onsite demonstrations of equipment use and maintenance to broader
safe patient handling education programs and national conferences. With help of training, health
care experts can deliver more safe and secure care services and treatment to patient within health
and care organisation. Furthermore, with help of training, health care expertise and doctors also
can able to improve their personality and professionalism regarding the health care setting
through which they can deliver high quality of care services to patient. It has been alos
concluded that in order to maintain health and safety management within health and care
organisation, training and development plays a very significant role.
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