• Priority of nursing care
• ABC’s: Airway, Breathing, Circulation
• Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs (Self-Actualization is the “highest
need”
• Patient Safety
▪ Safety and Quality of Care (IGGY page 2)
• Newer program
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• Priority of nursing care
• ABC’s: Airway, Breathing, Circulation
• Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs (Self-Actualization is the “highest
need”
• Patient Safety
▪ Safety and Quality of Care (IGGY page 2)
• Newer programs & standards implemented to combat this
growing problem that if not avoided can result in pt deaths,
injuries, deaths and inc. healthcare costs:
• In 2000: Institute of Medicine (IOM) stated in its To Err Is Human: Building a
Safer Health Care System publication that between 44,000 and 98,000
patient deaths result each year from preventable errors in acute care
hospitals.
• The Joint Commission: Offers peer evaluation for accreditation every 3
years for all types of U.S. health care agencies that meet their standards.
• TJC requires that health care organizations create a culture
of SAFETY (major focus) and encourage patients and families to
become safety partners in protecting patients from harm.
• In 2002, 1st NPSG published
• Requires health care organizations to focus on specific priority safety
practices involving establishing nursing and health system
approaches to care.
• Adds new goals each year.
• NPSGs address high-risk issues such as safe drug administration,
health care–associated infections, and communication effectiveness
among health care team members.
• Rapid Response Teams save lives and decrease the risk for harm by
providing care to patients before a respiratory or cardiac arrest occurs.
• Does not replace the Code Team who responds to patient arrests
• It intervenes rapidly when needed for those who are beginning to
clinically decline
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