Those specially designed machines are not doctors, for they don't say whats going to happen to the patient let alone know how
The internet contains inaccurate medical information that can be misleading. Jalees Rehman, author of “Accuracy of Medical Information on the Internet”, analyzes the accuracy of medical information on the internet based on a study from the Journal of Pediatrics. Researchers tested the accuracy of the internet in relation to sleep safety for infants. They found that “Only 43.5% of these 1300 websites contained recommendations that were in line with the AAP recommendations, while 28.1% contained inaccurate information and 28.4% of the websites were not medically relevant”. This erroneous information can cause a person to take actions that might do more harm to themselves or to others.
The expansion of MEDITECH is vast as well as technology advancement. At Chilton Memorial Hospital the implementation of MEDITECH aided in quicker access to results and information that helped support better decision-making and decreased the amount of medication errors by using the system correctly. MEDITECH increase safety to both the patient and nurse. Errors in systems are inevitable but it is important that nurses use technology as and aid to their job and remember not to fully rely on technology. Fairmont General Hospital was able to reduce documentation time after setbacks with repetitive charting and system issues.
The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act promoted the adoption and meaningful use of health information technology. This Act enacted as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. It encouraged the widespread use of electronic health records across the country; the largest in United States to date. The purpose of this paper will summarize the benefits of an Electronic Health Record. The three key functionalities of Electronic Health Records are computerized order entry systems, health information exchange and clinical decision support systems.
For instance, wrong medication, wrong surgical site, administering contaminated drugs to patient or sexual abuse of a patient within a health care facility. In most instances, these events are preventable but upon their occurrence, they are costly, both financially and reputation-wise to the affected healthcare institutions and the patient. Therefore, never events can be prevented by finding out the source of error or the near misses and developing mechanisms to prevent these events from occurring. Working through the four steps of the data, information, knowledge, wisdom continuum Moen and
Medication Errors in Healthcare The nursing profession entails many responsibilities that range from providing emotional support to administering medications that could result in death for those receiving care. Approximately 40% of a nurse's day consists of passing medication, a duty that sets their level of liability above many other healthcare professions (McCuistion, Vuljoin-DiMaggio, Winton, Yeager, & Kee, 2018). Despite today's advances in technology and nursing education, the frequency of medication errors is still staggering. To ensure that the benefits of nursing outweigh the risks, nurses look to the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) six core competencies for guidance.
I focused on each area of the healthcare organization and role of each person in the causation of the error and created a risk management plan by answering the below-mentioned questions as follows: Patient Identification Process " What specific patient identification processes and protocols are used? " Did the hospital staff verify the patient's identity? " Was the patient identified by a 3-point identification using a bar-coded wristband or any other means? Though both patients' problems were correctly identified in the emergency room, a proper protocol or identification process was not followed in the operation room holding area by the nurse.
The nurses are supposed to have knowledge in using these systems and electronic devices to cope with the technological improvement in health sector. Furthermore, registered nurse and licensed practical nurses seems as patient’s advocates especially in the health maintenance and clinical care. In most cases, nurses are close to the patients through daily care and close examination undertakings hence understand more information concerning patients (Gasper & Dillon, 2011). Having all these information, nurses are able to address some of the patients concerns and ensuring they are fully met. Therefore, every nurse has to
There are several reports of occurrence of medical errors in hospitals. Some of them are inaccurate patient identification [1], surgery at a wrong site [2], [3], improper administration of drugs [4], [5], mislabeled bio-samples [6], wrong interpretation of hand written prescription, wrong transfusion of blood [7], and leaving surgical items in the human body. All these errors are man-made errors. The occurrence of these errors was coupled with complex and cumbersome nature of the health care process demanding unpredictable service. As well, both health care and patient care processes practiced some routinely tasks to be performed, which make the health care staff more fatigued and more distracted, hence, more errors may be induced.
“If we 're going to do better for our patients, we need to create a health care system that addresses the needs of everyone, especially our sickest patients, and those who struggle to make ends meet." Said by Dr. David Blumenthal, the president of the Commonwealth Fund. As we all know, the U.S. health care system is unique compared to the other modern and more civilized nations. The U.S. does not have systematic healthcare system, no universal health care system, but U.S. have an enacted legislation mandating healthcare coverage for almost everyone. U.S. have national health service, a single-payer national health insurance system, or a multi-payer universal health insurance fund, the U.S. health care system can best be described as a hybrid
As the years have passed, technology plays a significant factor in improving patient safety. For instance, infusion pumps have prominently been enhanced to
First, improve the care for patient and worker efficiency by make the patient safer and more reliable. physicians and nurses use computers to record the history, lab tests, vital signs, and check medications in patient's file, and can know what is the procedure that has been done to the patient. Next reduce the errors especially medications errors. For example, nurse can enter patient's name with patient's medical record and see all medication that be ordered from the physician in the system. Also, the technology allow the patients to recognize and understand a visual perspective about their health such as X- ray, CT, Radiograph, and other visual representations that could help the patients to gain knowledge.
The machine is called Memphis. Memphis is a machine that uses near inferred light to see the veins of the patient. If this succeeds than doctors will never inject someone in the wrong place ever again. This could be one of the biggest break throughs for being able to inside the human body. Doctors and scientists could develop Memphis into something bigger on a larger scale.
You may be asking yourself if better communication would in fact decrease the number of deaths per year or more importantly, what can we do to ensure more effective communication? Throughout the years, death by medical error and miscommunication has indeed become more recognized and many new tools have been implemented to help decrease the statistics of deaths per year via medical error. Many people in healthcare who have seen so many preventable deaths happen have come up with programs that have changed the very fabric of communication between doctor and patient. A computer program was created in which documents would first be scanned through a computer software, while being scanned the program would change medical lingo to words and phrases
According to, Stewart Pinketon," the cost or medical bill that the patient will be paying will also cost too much since they are using higher quality of anesthesia to be injected in the patient's body". (Pinketon, 2017). I agree with Mr. Pinketon, the high cost can be unaffordable for some patients, which would prevent them from taking advantage of these advanced robots. Given these points, the advantage and high cost that these robots are giving, patients will be required to weigh their situation in cost convenience and the effectiveness of the robot on the
