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Surgical site infection (SSI) is one reason that patients get readmitted within 30 days following the procedure. A quality improvement (QI) project will focus on prevention in order to lower the hospital’s SSI rate. The Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle is an appropriate framework to guide the QI process (Taylor et al., 2014). The “plan” phase entails forming a project team and should involve nurses, physicians, and other healthcare professionals who can impact the incidence of SSI. The team will perform a root cause analysis (RCA) to assess the contributory factors to the SSI and identify the goals and objectives ...

Surgical fires happen rarely, but should be taken into consideration, for they can have serious consequences for the hospital’s patients, employees, and the institution as well. It’s necessary to learn the ways to prevent such fires and the ways to deal with inflaming if it happens. (“Surgical Fire Prevention”, 2012). The research on the matter shows that up to 650 surgical fires occur in the US operation rooms each year, with up to 5% causing death or serious harm (Rocos & Donaldson, 2012). According to Feldman, L., Fuchshuber, P. & Jones, D. B. (2012) nearly 44% of fires during ...

Literature Reading

Literature Reading Nursing profession is faced with several issues concerning care practices including the mandatory overtime imposed on nurses. However, both positive and negative perceptions about mandatory overtime appear in various studies about its effect on work efficiency and patient safety. The following literatures provide significant insights on the issue of mandatory overtime based on the findings encompassing both the qualitative and quantitative methods. Bae, S. (2013). Presence of nurse mandatory overtime regulations and nurse and patient outcomes.Nursing Economics, 31(2), 59-89. Retrieved from https://www.nursingeconomics.net/ce/2015/article31025989.pdf Mandatory overtime imposed among nurses is a prevalent practice in order to address the ...

The universal protocol is a quality standard that was made mandatory by the Joint Commission in 2004. The principal purpose of the element is to guarantee that the right procedure is followed in patient identity, appropriate surgical site, and right scheduled process. The universal process is significant in executing health care services. The joint consensus developed the universal protocol upon agreement on the steps to prevent wrong surgical operations, wrong patient surgery, and wrong site. All accredited health care facilitate, operations based in offices and ambulatory care. The universal protocol is paramount in the provision of safe patient care. ...

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Research in Nursing Practice Patient safety is one of the most important medical concerns in a surgical procedure. Surgical errors such as wrong side or site, wrong procedure, and/or wrong person, though occur rarely, are considered as highly devastating events. In the U.S., about 28% of procedure related adverse events were reported in three different hospitals in 2011. According to the National Patient Safety Agency, 129,419 cases of surgical errors occurred in England and Wales in 2007 (McDowell & McComb, 2014). Surgical errors resulted in different degrees of impairment or harm. Most frequently occurring problems associated with the surgical ...

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Research in Nursing Practice Abstract Patient safety is important not only for patient but also for medical community, and this safety includes the reduction of medical and surgical errors. In the last few years, researchers have started showing great interest in the use of checklists before performing a surgery to reduce surgical errors. Usually, those checklists include the time out process, i.e. a kind of break or pause, before starting any surgical procedure. Those checklists may also include the information of patient, information of site or side, and information of procedure. Before starting any operation, operating staff communicate with ...

For a long time now, nurses have been fighting against inadequate staffing and the outcomes that such issues have on them and the patients under their care. Additionally, the ever ballooning needs of the health care system have resulted in the number of patients requiring care going above the available healthcare personnel (Aiken, et al., 2014). As such, the available nurses presently working in the country, both at the state and the federal level are overwhelmed by the responsibilities bestowed on them. From the foregoing, therefore, it is evident that finding the optimal level of the nurse-to-patient ratio has ...