Nursing 4320A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Patient Safety, Harm Reduction, Safety Culture

• School: Western University
• Department: Nursing
• Course: Nursing 4320A/B
• Professor: Mary- Anne Davies

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Patient safety: critically analyze nursing"s role in patient safety and a culture of safety, analyze key legislations which promote patient safety, apply course concepts and knowledge of patient safety to case studies. Identify key organizations and resources that support patient safety. Canadian adverse events study (caes: baker and norton (2004) studied the rate of adverse events (ae) in canadian. 2: surgical procedures, drug and fluid-related events. Ghandi et al (2016: varying levels of improvement, success with individual projects and tool kits (e. g. clabsi, vte. How do we improve patient safety? (cid:498) culture is not just a means to an end but an essential part of a system that can achieve safer care. (cid:499) ghandi et al, 2016, p. 1830. 79; crossing the quality chasm 2001: accreditation canada recognizes culture as one of six patient safety goals with 4. 3: a commitment to applying core patient safety knowledge, skills and attitudes to work everyday .