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5 Tips to Assure Patient Safety in a Hospital

  • Writer: khalid ahmad
    khalid ahmad
  • Aug 24, 2019
  • 2 min read



As pollution is getting increase the change in the world climate is also observed. The summer weather is nearly boiling the people while the cold freezes. With the change in climate people are facing more health issues. Here hospitals play an important role to get rid of the diseases. As the number of patients gets increased the number of hospitals also get increase with the passage of time. Due to the high number of patients many hospitals didn’t focus on the common errors to resolve.

According to research, nearly 444,000 individuals die due to the hospital errors. From obtaining fire alarm certificates to staff training everything needs to be done in order to resolve the safety threats. Here in this blog you will get to know about the top tips through which you can assure safety of your patients and can provide a better environment.


Establish a Safety & Health Management System:


According to OSHA (Occupational Safety & Health Administration), the hospital should formulate guideline based on health management system performance and enterprise safety. To establish safety and health management it is necessary to take all managers and employees on board. Your employees should have power to take decision in an emergency in order to ensure safety. You should also review the safety precautions and find for the leakage. Remember to adjust the policies according to the environment and issues.


Build Rapid Response System:


The rapid response system is necessary for every hospital. You should have a backup plan in case of any emergency. The plan should be based on the safety of patient in unforeseen circumstances. You should organize team strategies & tools to enhance patient safety and performance. You should also know the probabilistic assessments, root cause analysis and failure mode and effect analysis. Knowing these things will help you to make a better strategy. Your framework should be based on

Progress towards set goals

Status of the patient

Environment

Team members


Share & Implement the Safety Policy:


Safety policy is just a piece of paper until it is implemented on each and every area. Once you set a safety policy for your hospital remember to share it with your employees. Those staff members who are working should know what are their responsibilities and how they could contribute to the safety of patients. Effective training assessments could be conducted to make sure that there is no leakage and everyone is aware of what to do.


Develop A Safety Plan:


You need to develop a safety plan for the policies you made. Organize a safety plan and recheck it every day. Monitoring cells should know what is going in the hospital and how the patients are treated. Your safety monitoring should include but not be limited to

Maintaining insurance claim integrity

Promoting positive treatment outcomes

Eliminating illegal activities


Practice Patient Center Care:


The debates of service qualities always include patient center care. Care facilities should adopt the practice of patient center care well so that it could give a good impact on overall services of hospital. It is necessary to practice patient center care effectively.

 
 
 

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