This document discusses patient safety in healthcare. It defines patient safety as aiming to prevent harm during healthcare provision. Key aspects of patient safety include accurate patient identification, effective communication among caregivers, safe medication use, clinical alarm safety, and infection prevention. National patient safety goals focus on these areas as well as fall and pressure injury prevention. Nursing plays a critical role in patient surveillance and care coordination to reduce adverse outcomes.

1. PATIENT safety
Dareen Ali AL-subeiai 19000 200
Ghoyum Al-mould 19000 184
Suzan AL-Otibe 18000 035
Nursing leadership & management

2. INTRODUCTION
Patient safety is fundamental to delivering
quality essential health services. Indeed,
there is a clear consensus that quality health
services across the world should be
effective, safe and people-centred. In
addition, to realize the benefits of quality
health care, health services must be timely,
equitable, integrated and efficient.

3. What is PATIENT
SAFETY???

4. what is PATIENT
safety ???
Patient Safety is a health care discipline that emerged with
the evolving complexity in health care systems and the
resulting rise of patient harm in health care facilities. It aims
to prevent and reduce risks, errors and harm that occur to
patients during provision of health care. A cornerstone of
the discipline is continuous improvement based on learning
from errors and adverse events.
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5. WHAT IS SAFETY
Sense the error
Act to prevent it
Follow Safety
Guidelines
Enquire into
accidents/Deaths
Take appropriate
remedial measure
Your responsibility

6. Significance of Patient Safety
the primary benefits of patient
safety efforts is that they yield
higher standards of clinical care
01
Patient safety programs
help minimize preventable
infections or injuries.
03
help reduce drug errors,
which can occur at prescribing
and dispensing stages
02
patient safety protocols to keep
patients from injuring
themselves during rehabilitation
Even during brief walks around
a hospital floor
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Providing High-
Quality Care
Preventing Risk
Medication Errors
Patient Injuries

7. WHY SAFETY IN THE HOSPITAL?
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The hospital atmosphere is
filled with emotions,
excitement, life &
happiness, death & sorrow
People have a free
access to enter any part
of the hospital any time
for advice and treatment
hospital usually under
continuous strain, it gives rise to
irritation, conflicts & aggression,
threatening the life of hospital
staff & hospital properties
Hospital is a people
intensive place
Provide services to sick people round the
clock 24 hours daily 365 days a year.

8. Goal 1
Improve the accuracy of
patient identification..
Goal 2
Improve the effectiveness
of communication among
caregivers
Goal 3
Improve the safety of
using medications.
National Patient Safety Goals 2015
Goal 4
Improve the safety of
clinical alarm systems
Goal 5
Reduce the risk of
health care-associated
infections
Goal 6
Reduce the risk of
patient harm resulting
from falls

9. Goal 7
Prevent health care associated
pressure ulcers
Goal 8
The organization identifies
safety risk inherent to the
patient population
National Patient Safety Goals 2015

10. Have Patient Safety Goals Changed?
The rapid rise in COVID-19 infections has highlighted weaknesses in
hospitals where errors are likely. With the shortage in the number of
employees, the rest of them were made tired, which increased the
possibility of making mistakes. Therefore, measures were put in place to
mitigate these risks and accidents.
To help healthcare facilities in provide safer, more equitable care, the World
Health Organization (WHO) has recently developed a plan intended to
eliminate patient harm incidents around the world within the next decade. In
addition, the Joint Commission has recently released National Patient Safety
Goals (NPSGs) that represent emerging patient safety issues.

11. Identify patients
correctly
Improve staff
communication
Prevent infection
Use medicines
safely
Use alarms
safely
Identify
patient
safety risks.
Prevent
mistakes in
surgery.
National Patient Safety Goals 2019

12. National Patient Safety Goals® 2022
Improve the accuracy
of patient and resident
identification.
Reduce the risk of health
care–associated
infections.
Improve the safety of
using medications.
Reduce the risk of
patient and resident
harm resulting from falls
Prevent health care–
associated pressure injuries.

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SUMMARY
Patient safety is the cornerstone of high-quality health care. Much of the
work defining patient safety and practices that prevent harm have focused
on negative outcomes of care, such as mortality and morbidity. Nurses are
critical to the surveillance and coordination that reduce such adverse
outcomes. Much work remains to be done in evaluating the impact of
nursing care on positive quality indicators, such as appropriate self-care
and other measures of improved health status.

14. THANK
YOU.

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