Patient Safety Essay

WAYS BY WHICH PAIENT SAFETY CAN BE IMPROVED WITH INCIDENT REPORTING

Health Care Management, Group-1

Course code: HM1013

Course name: Introduction to patient’s safety

Instructor: Fred

Topic: Impact of incident reporting on patient safety

Student name Student I’d

Saadia Khan 201702346

Komal Preet 201702448

Komalpreet Kaur 201604776

Kawaljeet kaur 201604910 Swarnjeet Kaur 201701774

Manupranay Adupa 201700297

Sonika 201702113

Harleen kaur gill 201702186

Navneet kaur 201701676

Geeta pathak 201700281

Navdeep kaur 201700793

Navneet kaur 201605134

Rajdeep kaur 201701449

Daljitpal Singh 201700520

Mandeep Singh Sidhu 201701669

Rajbeep kaur sindhu 201701715

Inderjeet kaur 201702411

Patient safety incident reporting is a valuable source of information for providers, patients, and policymakers. It promotes accountability, learning, and improvement of patient safety culture. Patient safety is the pursuit of the reduction and mitigation of unsafe acts within the healthcare system, as well as the use of best practices shown to lead to optimal patient outcomes. It is an event or circumstance that could have resulted, or did result, in unnecessary harm to a patient . It is frequently used as a general term for all voluntary patient safety event reporting systems, which rely on those involved in events to provide detailed information . The concept of incident or adverse event reporting focused on tools that helped to integrate patient safety across the organization.

Incident reporting perceived to have positive efect on safety, not only by leading to changes in are processes but also by changing attitudes and knowledge. It is used to identify local system hazards to share lessons within and across organizations, increase patient safety culture, make reporting easier, make reporting meaningful to the