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Why Is Patient Safety Important

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Patient safety is a vital part of our health care system; it helps define quality health care. A challenging issue is keeping our patients safe because medical errors in the workplace can and they do happen. Who is responsible for taking proper measurers to ensure patient safety? Is it the nurses, physicians, administrators, society or patients themselves? All these entities are responsible for making sure the patient has the safest possible outcome. Medical errors are prone to happen so this worldwide issue will never be completely resolved however we as nurses need to make sure we are taking all appropriate actions to minimize the mistakes being made so that we are not putting our patients at risk.

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