Nursing: Ahrq

Nursing: AHRQ

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Practice: Patient safety practice

Patient safety is the act of prevention of harm to a patient. The patient safety practices refer to the practices of the reduction of the undesirable events associated with exposure to health care within a set of conditions and diagnosis (Berkman, Lohr, Ansari, McDonagh, Balk, Whitlock, & Hartling, 2013). Through a systematic change of how the patients are handled enhance the reduction of the medical errors that are identified from the individual health providers (Zrelak, Sadeghi, Utter, Baron, Tancredi, Geppert, & Romano, 2011). Different processes of engagement of the quality improvement activities in different procedures and diseases are dealt with during the medical practices.

Patient safety practice is a process applied with the aim of reducing the likelihood of adverse occurrences caused by the exposure to the health care system within a collection of procedures and diseases.

The extent of implementation of the practice

The patient safety practice is implemented in the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) comparative effectiveness research site (Berkman, et al. 2013). The AHRQ ensures that the provision of patient care is conducted by following the appropriate patient safety strategies as follows. Hand hygiene is highly observed (Cima, Lackore, Nehring, Cassivi, Donohue, Deschamps, & Naessens, 2011).). The medical providers use the real-tine ultrasonography for the core line placement. There is the application of the do-not-use issues for the hazardous abbreviations and interventions for the improvement of the prophylaxis for the venous thromboembolisms, as well as the multicomponent interventions for the reduction of the pressure ulcers(Cima, et al. 2011). The medical caregivers use the preoperative and anesthesia checklists with the aim of prevention of the operative and post-operative events. Other strategy is the interventions for the reduction of the urinary catheter application such as the stop order, the catheter reminders, and the nurse-initiated removal protocols (Zrelak, et al. 2011). During the provision of patient safety, there is the usage of the bundles that comprise of checklist with the ability to avert bloodstream infections in the central line association. Other includes the sedation vacations, subglottic suctioning endotracheal tubes, head-of-bed elevation, and oral care using chlorhexidine for the prevention of ventilator-related pneumonia (Cima, et al. 2011). There is the application of the maximum sterile barriers when placing the central intravenous catheters for the prevention of infections. Health providers apply the necessary prophylaxis for the prevention of venous thromboembolism in those patients who are danger (Berkman, et al. 2013). The preoperative beta-blockers are applied in the right patients for the prevention of preoperative morbidity, as well as death. Appropriate application of the antibiotic prophylaxis is conducted in the operation patients to avoid the experience of post-operative infections (Cevasco, Borzecki, Chen, Zrelak, Shin, Romano, & Rosen, 2011). The students are requested to remember and refer to what they were informed in the process of acquisition of the informed consent in order to confirm their understanding capacity. There is also an ongoing objective of the subglottic secretions for the prevention of ventilator-related pneumonia (Zrelak, et al. 2011). The medical providers use the pressure-relieving bedding tools and equipments for the prevention of patient’s experience of pressure ulcers and use the real-time ultrasound guidance when inserting the central line for the prevention of risks. The patient’s self-management is encouraged for the warfarin for the achievement of the most appropriate outpatient anticoagulation and the prevention of related complications (Cima, et al. 2011). The most efficient nutrition is provided with a specific goal on the premature enteral nutrition in the surgical and critically ill patients for the prevention of the complications. The medical providers also use the antibiotic-impregnated middle venous catheters for the prevention of catheter-associated infections (Berkman, et al. 2013). There is also the crew resource management, bar coding, application of the simulators and computerized medical order entry for the avoidance of patient safety likely mistakes and to enhance the improvement of the health care procedures (Cevasco, et al. 2011).