As a nurse, you observe and interpret activities and conversations differently from your health care team. Share your experiences and answer to this question:
What is relationship between patient safety and improvement of care in nursing?
Patient safety is the responsibility of every hospital employee not just nurses.
Quality management and and improvement of care in nursing are expected to highly affect patient safety
The better nursing and medical care that is provided would lead to better patients' safety.
Patient usually have only one supporter that is nurse. She/ he not only should help the patient, but also prevent hazards that may occur. This is patient safety and the nurse has a main role in it.
In The past, we have often viewed nursing’s responsibility in patient safety in narrow aspects of patient care, for example, avoiding medication errors and preventing patient falls. While these dimensions of safety remain important within the nursing purview, the breadth and depth of patient safety and quality improvement are far greater. The most critical contribution of nursing to patient safety, in any setting, is the ability to coordinate and integrate the multiple aspects of quality within the care directly provided by nursing, and across the care delivered by others in the setting.
A good nursing care should be based on patient safety and his/ her rights.
This relationship is very complex. Certain safety measures may even diminish quality of care (think of waking up patients for routine checks), and quality officers and nurses may have very different perspectives on this. Would be interesting to scrutinize, and do in depth interviews about conceptions of quality of care.
Also, one should be careful not to frame these questions like these concepts refer to some fixed entities in the real world. They don't. We use them to be able to communicate about it. If you reframe the question by asking how do we learn, together, to make care safer and of higher quality, then you have a totally different outlook.
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