NRSG139 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Risk Assessment, Physical Therapy, Fall Prevention
Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care
ACSQHS recognises a key contributor to adverse outcomes as “unwarranted variation in
care that is not explained by the clinical circumstances or personal choices of the patient.”
They identify three key contributors to this problem:
● Overuse of treatments or procedures that do not help people get better
● Underuse of things that we know can help, or
● Misuse (or errors) doing something incorrectly and harming people
National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards
The primary aims of the NSQHS Standards are to protect the public from harm and to
improve the quality of health service provision
Safe practice
● A duty of care
● About providing a safe working environment for other HCP’s, patients and visitors
● Minimising risk of hospital/care errors and harm to patients
● National State and Territory Laws require all health care workplaces to comply with
laws that reduce risk in the workplace
○ For example: Occupational Health and Safety Act 1984 (Victoria): Worksafe
Australia
● Comply with standards of Practice/Scope of Practice
○ Health Professions Registration Act (2005)
○ NMBA Standards
Sources of Risk and Error
Factors that increase the risk of human error
● Experience
● Limited short term memory
● Being late or in a hurry
● Limited ability to multitask
● Interruptions
● Stress
● Fatigue
● Environmental factors
Patient factors affecting safety
● Age and development
● Lifestyle
● Mobility and health status
● Sensory-perceptual alterations
● Cognitive awareness
● Poor historian
● Emotional state
● Ability to communicate
● Safety awareness
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Document Summary
Australian commission on safety and quality in health care. Acsqhs recognises a key contributor to adverse outcomes as unwarranted variation in care that is not explained by the clinical circumstances or personal choices of the patient. They identify three key contributors to this problem: Overuse of treatments or procedures that do not help people get better. Underuse of things that we know can help, or. Misuse (or errors) doing something incorrectly and harming people. The primary aims of the nsqhs standards are to protect the public from harm and to improve the quality of health service provision. About providing a safe working environment for other hcp"s, patients and visitors. Minimising risk of hospital/care errors and harm to patients. National state and territory laws require all health care workplaces to comply with laws that reduce risk in the workplace. For example: occupational health and safety act 1984 (victoria): worksafe. Comply with standards of practice/scope of practice.
